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A lot of people have asked about the RSS site I am using now.  
It is called ''Netvibes'' and the URL is [[http://netvibes.com | http://netvibes.com]].

Session Notes
Often, the halls where I present this, and other addresses, offer wireless access to the Internet for attendees. For computer-tooters, who want to contribute their sessions notes to other members of the audience, this wiki offers the ability to establish a personal wiki notes page, that will automatically be linked back to these pages. Sometimes we can learn as much from other peoples insights as from the presentation. I know that I do.

At the turn of the century, teachers in classrooms across the U.S. and many other parts of the world were becoming acquainted with newly arrived multimedia computers and broadband* access to the Internet. We were exploring new techniques for utilizing these seemingly magical tools to facilitate better teaching and learning. We also recognized the importance of these technologies in preparing our children for what will surely be a future that is heavily influenced by computers and global networks. We explored a wide variety of new web-based instructional services and learned to build webquests* for our students, to provide rich inquiry activities to help students learn to use the Net to teach themselves and to use their growing knowledge and skills to produce new knowledge and valuable information products.

At that giddy time, none of us had heard of Blogs. If we had heard the term, we probably would have envisioned a mass of something that was probably too uninterested in knowing any more about.

Doug Johnson recently wrote an article about blogging for the media specialist (see citation below). As part of that article, he submitted a list of prominent librarian bloggers, and ed tech bloggers:

School Library Media

Alice in Infoland (Alice Yucht)
The Blue Skunk Blog (Doug Johnson):
Deep Thinking (Diane Chen):
The Free Range Librarian (Karen Schneider):
Infomancy (Chris Harris):
Infosearcher (Pam Berger):
Librarian in the Middle (Rober Eiffert):
The Neverending Search (Joyce Valenza):
School Library Journal Blog (Amy Bowllan):

Ed Tech
The Committed Sardine (Ian Jukes):
Education/Technology (Tim Lauer):
Kaffeeklatsch (Kathy Schrock):
Neat New Stuff (Marylaine Block):
Pedersondesigns (John Pederson):
The Savvy Technologist (Tim Wilson):
Teach and Learn Online (Leigh Blackall):
Worth (David Warlick)
Weblogg-ed (Will Richardson):

Johnson, Doug. "Blogging & the Media Specialist." Learning & Leading with Technology March 2006.

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Yet today, blogs have become an important and moving force in politics, entertainment, art, religion, and most other aspects of modern society. Blogs were fairly limited to the technorati in early 2004 with growing indications of its potential importance emerging in many likely places. My first blog experience was with a regular publication, called Where is Raed?. Published on a surprisingly steady basis, the author described daily events and details about life in Baghdad in early 2003, as U.S. troops massed on the borders of his country. As people in the U.S. and other countries watched CNN, listened to NPR, and read their favorite daily and weekly news print sources, many of them also tuned into Where is Raed? to learn about how the imminent invasion was affecting the residents of this far away country that we had heard so much about over the last decade.

The Great Discussion

...an ongoing public exchange and cultivation of ideas that was once limited to hired and elected leaders, journalists, and pundits. Today, the discussion is increasingly influenced and contributed to by nearly all walks of people, who observe, reflect, and report – a new society of citizen journalists.

It was not lost on me that I did not know the author of Where is Raed?, nor was there an obvious way to research and prove his authority. However, when I Googled* the title of the popular blog, I immediately received approximately 3,500 web pages that mentioned it. Of the ones that I examined, a vast majority were message boards where people were discussing just this thing -- was the author geninely a citizen of Iraq living in Baghdad, or a college student in Kansas, pulling something over on us. The point is that people were considering and talking about the publication, not just what was being published. They were seeking and discussing information about the information, rather than accepting the information.

This points to another idea that will arise again, that we must no longer assume the authority of the information we use, but, instead, prove the authority. This is a major shift that is critical for our classrooms, not only in what we teach our students, but also how we teach our students.

In the end, a New York Times journalist, Peter Maass, returned to the U.S. shortly after the invasion, and began to read the “Baghdad Blogger”, having returned to his cable modem. As he read through the articles and other references to the author, he learned that Salam Pax, the author’s pseudonym, had worked with an NGO called CIVIC, studied in Vienna, and worked as a translator for several foreign journalists. Peter Maass later reported in SLATE Magazine:

His latest post mentioned an afternoon he spent at the Hamra Hotel pool, reading a borrowed copy of The New Yorker. I laughed out loud. He then mentioned an escapade in which he helped deliver 24 pizzas to American soldiers. I howled. Salam Pax, the most famous and most mysterious blogger in the world, was my interpreter. The New Yorker he had been reading—mine. Poolside at the Hamra—with me. The 24 pizzas—we had taken them to a unit of 82nd Airborne soldiers I was writing about.
Since then blogs were catapulted to our attention when Howard Dean ingeniously used the medium to attract millions in contributions for his presidential campaign. Publishing a blog quickly became an integral part of political campaigning, and candidates without them were seen as behind the times and consequently irrelevant. Blogging also surfaced as a prevalent avenue for reporting on campaigns. As more and more people are turning to the web for their news, and as publishing content to the web has become so accessible, it is only natural that blogging should become a force in how we use information to make our decisions.

Warlick, David. Classroom Blogging: A Teacher's Guide to the Blogosphere. Raleigh: The Landmark Project, 2005.

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  • 21st Century Learning: Planning for 21st Century Instruction
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  • Mr. Rother's Rants and Raves: Wikipedia - David Warlick
    A post this morning highlighted a presentation done by David Warlick. I was interested in the name because it seemed so familiar. I took Mr. Byrne's advice from the blog and watched it from about 46 minutes in to hear the section on ...


  • Classroom Blogging with a Purpose | Avenue4Learning
    I am always extremely encouraged when I hear about teachers who incorporate blogging as a tool for students to reflect and evaluate. There are some really great classroom blogs where teachers have provided some guidelines about blogging ...




  • Astronomy Sites for Classroom Use | Boehman's Blogging Bits
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