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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
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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.
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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: | |
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School Library Media Alice in Infoland (Alice Yucht) |
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Johnson, Doug. "Blogging & the Media Specialist." Learning & Leading with Technology March 2006. | |
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Session Blogs Last 10 Blog Posts that include classroom, blogging, and warlick:
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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:
Warlick, David. Classroom Blogging: A Teacher's Guide to the Blogosphere. Raleigh: The Landmark Project, 2005.
The latest 10 blog articles written anywhere that mention classroom and 'blogging'.
- 2˘ Worth » Further Reflections on EduCon 2.2
David, I presented The Paperless Classroom at eTech on Monday morning at 10:45. I would have liked to have chatted with you, as I enjoy your blog and your insights. By the way, we never used the coat check, but it is nice to have. ... . Student Learning . . . 'Imagine the Possibilities' « EC&I 832. [...] Warlick in his blog post Further Reflections on EduCon 2.2 echoed this thoughts when he wrote the following quote which came from a student reflecting on [...] ...
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Uploading to Google Video, EdTechTalk with ...
Remember the edtechtalk tomorrow at 9 pm EST with David Warlick and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach. Just go to edtechtalk.com and get into the chat room. Also, you may listen via a skypecast (Go to skypecasts.skype.com and search for Women of Web 2 -- you don't need to be a woman to ... The world has changed, but the American classroom, for the most part, hasn't. Now educators are starting to look at what must be done to make sure our kids make the grade in the new global economy. ...
- 2˘ Worth » My Educon Conversation
I will suggest a classroom learning experience that was recently witnessed in a classroom, asking participants to click the point on the grid at the point of intersection along each scale. A grid will be displayed (see “Group Grid” on right ) that ... If this all works well, then I will likely open it up for a limited number of initial users. Check here on the blog for instructions… Reply to David Warlick; Wendy Fisher posted the following on January 30, 2010 at 10:07 pm. ...
- 2˘ Worth » 10 Ways to Promote Learning Lifestyle in Your School
What do we see in the school and classroom where learning lifestyle pops to mind? I think that we see is conversation — and not just conversations between teachers and students. There is a much broader conversation that permiates the entire building and beyond, .... Cents WorthToday I was catching up on my RSS feeds and read the ever inspiring David Warlick. A recent blog of his on 1/19/10 posted a list of 10 ways to promote a learning lifestyle in your [...] ...
- 2˘ Worth
On the 14th, I wrote a blog post (Applying PLN — a Continuing Question for Me), questioning some of my own assumptions about expecting educators to embrace learning practices — cultivating personal learning networks. ... What do we see in the school and classroom where learning lifestyle pops to mind? I think that we see is conversation — and not just conversations between teachers and students. There is a much broader conversation that permiates the entire building and ...
- Engagement v. Empowerment — continuing thoughts (part 1)
..that in the end, (empowerment) is the word — the idea — that sets us up for a more student-centered classroom because it is about what the students get from the experience once the class is done, not what happens during the class. ...
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Wikis and the Power of Internet peer review!
When a teacher is in a classroom, students get one viewpoint of their work. In the real world. people have conflicting views of your work. (As any blogger knows!) What a great opportunity for students to see the convergence and divergence ... So, in light of David Warlick's and David (at the Strength of Weak Tie's blog) comments about whether one can be a good teacher and not use technology, I'd like to quote the latter blogger's post (It may have come from Dave Warlick's ...
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Blogging Changes Us
Tags: John Pederson, Dave Warlick, blogging, education, blogs, David Warlick, classroom technology, computers, wiki, folksonomy, podcasting, blogging, SAT Review, collaborate, blog, blogs, daily, daily life, journal, weblog, thoughts ...
- 2˘ Worth » Some Reflections from Educon — and it isn't over yet!
Reply to David Warlick. Sarah Vaughn posted the following on February 1, 2010 at 9:53 pm. I currently have a student in one of my classes with dyslexia. I teach 6th grade Language Arts and I am very concerned with his level of frustration ... I may be naive, but I look forward to (and am working toward in my own classroom) a day when students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of content in ways that match their own learning styles-I have my fingers crossed ...
- Black History Month Videoconference Opportunities
The $50 program is designed for grades 6th-12th and is supplemented by a classroom activity which is aligned with national standards of education. The 2010 panel will feature AFL star and Hall of Fame tackle Ron Mix and Ernie Warlick ...