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But as more and more people get on the blog bandwagon, more and more teachers and schools are starting to experiment with the technology as a way to communicate with students and parents, archive and publish student work, learn with far-flung collaborators, and "manage" the knowledge that members of the school community create. In fact, many are seeing Weblogs as a cheaper alternative to course management systems.
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"We use Moveable Type, and it's free for educational use," he said. "It can do just about anything those very expensive course management tools can do. So in times of dwindling school budgets, the use of tools such as Moveable Type sends a message to our taxpayers that we are resourceful and wise with our school dollars."
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The collaborative aspect of Weblogs is what has brought many teachers into the fold. Commenting capabilities in many of the blogging software packages allow for easy peer review for students and teachers and make bringing in experts or mentors from outside the classroom easy. One such example is my own experience in a literature class I taught last year.
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She has used what are called audioblogs to help her students work on their reading and pronunciation skills. Pritchard records her students and posts the audio files on a Weblog. Then her students play the files back at school or at home when they want to hear how they sound. She has also used Weblogs with great success as a teacher mentoring tool. She and her entry year teacher archive their thoughts, reflect on their practice, and discuss their specific goals and needs for upcoming classes
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Educators have been slower to adopt Weblogs
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many are seeing Weblogs as a cheaper alternative to course management systems.
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Not only does this allow for the school's Web site to be a timely source of information, it allows a number of staff members to contribute in what is a more distributed content creation model
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Commenting capabilities in many of the blogging software packages allow for easy peer review for students and teachers and make bringing in experts or mentors from outside the classroom easy
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Weblogs, or "blogs," as they are called, can best be defined as Web sites that are easily created and updated by those with even a minimum of technology know-how.
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more and more teachers and schools are starting to experiment with the technology as a way to communicate with students and parents, archive and publish student work, learn with far-flung collaborators, and "manage" the knowledge that members of the school community create.
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First, start your own Weblog, and start aggregating RSS feeds.
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However you start, start small and experiment.
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An October 2003 survey by the Perseus Development Group [http://www.perseus.com/blogsurvey/] estimated that over 4 million Weblogs had been created by the middle of 2003, and thousands more are being created weekly.
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We had selected Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees for our Modern American Literature curriculum, and I decided to use a Weblog to carry on our conversations about the book outside of class. Since we were probably the first school in the country to study the novel, I wondered if the author might be willing to join my students in our online discussion. To our great surprise, she did, and my students got the benefit of a 2,300-word response to our "big" questions about the characters and the plot in the book [http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/beesbook]. In addition, we set up a Weblog for parents of my students interested in reading the book for themselves, and about a dozen parents held their own discussions in parallel to my students [http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/beesparents].
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From an RSS standpoint, there are a lot of aggregators available for free download, including NetNewsWire [http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/] (for Mac OS X only) and SharpReader [http://www.sharpreader.net/]. Remember that if you use more than one computer during the day, you will need to install the software more than once. That's the main reason I recommend that teachers new to the technology try Bloglines [http://www.bloglines.com], which is a Web-based, free aggregator that you can access from any Internet connection.
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Greg ZahmMore uses of Blogs & RSS in the classroom AND DISTRICT
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A Tool for Collaboration
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For instance, say you've found 20 or 30 (or, like me, 120!) Weblog sites on the Internet that interest you. Finding the time to click through to those sites on a regular basis is probably pretty difficult. But what if you had to go to only one place to read all of the new content on all of those sites? Wouldn't be so difficult, would it? Well, that's exactly what RSS allows you to do by using what's called an "aggregator" or news-feed collector. The aggregator checks the sites you subscribe to, usually every hour, and it collects all the new content into a folder that is just waiting for you to come and read it. Big deal, you say? Very big, indeed, for a variety of reasons.
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Similarly, if internal committees used Weblogs to post minutes and links, administrators could do a quick read in their aggregators to keep abreast of what the groups are up to with the added benefit that the work is easily archived for retrieval at a later date
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with the added benefit that the work is easily archived for retrieval at a later date
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you can even subscribe to a Google or Yahoo! search for that term
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From an RSS standpoint, there are a lot of aggregators available for free download, including NetNewsWire [http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/] (for Mac OS X only) and SharpReader [http://www.sharpreader.net/]. Remember that if you use more than one computer during the day, you will need to install the software more than once. That's the main reason I recommend that teachers new to the technology try Bloglines [http://www.bloglines.com], which is a Web-based, free aggregator that you can access from any Internet connection.
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"aggregator" or news-feed collector. The aggregator checks the sites you subscribe to, usually every hour, and it collects all the new content into a folder that is just waiting for you to come and read it.
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In simple terms, Weblogs (and an ever-growing number of other sites) generate a behind-the-scenes code in a language similar to HTML called XML. This code, usually referred to as a "feed" (as in "news feed"), makes it possible for readers to "subscribe" to the content that is created on a particular Weblog so they no longer have to visit the blog itself to get it. As is true with traditional syndication, the content comes to you instead of you going to it.
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And it's not just text. Blogs can display pictures and video, include audio and Flash, and even store other files like PowerPoint presentations or Excel spreadsheets for linking.
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The collaborative aspect of Weblogs is what has brought many teachers into the fold. Commenting capabilities in many of the blogging software packages allow for easy peer review for students and teachers and make bringing in experts or mentors from outside the classroom easy.
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"Through the use of our Weblog we've been able to build a relationship, engage in reflective practice, have interactive opportunities that develop and broaden our knowledge base, and document evidence of growth and refinement in the practice
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g macmahon"How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators
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Depending on who you talk to, RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication. Either way, RSS is a real important technology that information specialists and educators would be well advised to harness sooner rather than later. In simple terms, Weblogs (and an ever-growing number of other sites) generate a behind-the-scenes code in a language similar to HTML called XML. This code, usually referred to as a "feed" (as in "news feed"), makes it possible for readers to "subscribe" to the content that is created on a particular Weblog so they no longer have to visit the blog itself to get it. As is true with traditional syndication, the content comes to you instead of you going to it.
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The aggregator checks the sites you subscribe to, usually every hour, and it collects all the new content into a folder that is just waiting for you to come and read it
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In the classroom, teachers who have students create their own Weblogs can easily keep tabs on what those students are posting by subscribing to their students' feeds and simply checking their aggregators regularly.
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If school Web sites were built on a foundation of Weblogs, as with Lewis Elementary, parents could "subscribe" to different feeds that are relevant to their children ... say, the feeds from the College Search page, the Board of Education page, and Mr. Richardson's homework page.
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Jenny HockGreat article explaining blogging & rss feeds with descriptions and links to many services.
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Students use Weblogs as digital portfolios or just digital filing cabinets, where they store their work. Teachers use blogs as classroom portals, where they archive handouts, post homework assignments, and field questions virtually. Clubs and activities, sports teams, and parent groups use Weblogs to post scores, meeting minutes, and links to relevant issues and topics. In other words, a Weblog is a dynamic, flexible tool that's easy to use whether you're creating with it or simply viewing the result.
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Each school and each district may have its own comfort level that needs to be respected when thinking about putting student work on the Internet.
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In simple terms, Weblogs (and an ever-growing number of other sites) generate a behind-the-scenes code in a language similar to HTML called XML. This code, usually referred to as a "feed" (as in "news feed"), makes it possible for readers to "subscribe" to the content that is created on a particular Weblog so they no longer have to visit the blog itself to get it. As is true with traditional syndication, the content comes to you instead of you going to it.
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The feed your aggregator checks is virus free, and you know that everything in your aggregator is something you want to read because you subscribed to it. No ads, no spam, just new content from the sources you read. You can scan the headlines, read the entire post, click through to the actual Web site, and file the information away for later retrieval.
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But Weblogs in and of themselves are only a part of the story. There is another "tool" that is built in to most blogging software that many think will change the way we receive and process all of the information we get from the Internet. This is what's known as RSS.
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For instance, say you've found 20 or 30 (or, like me, 120!) Weblog sites on the Internet that interest you. Finding the time to click through to those sites on a regular basis is probably pretty difficult. But what if you had to go to only one place to read all of the new content on all of those sites? Wouldn't be so difficult, would it? Well, that's exactly what RSS allows you to do by using what's called an "aggregator" or news-feed collector. The aggregator checks the sites you subscribe to, usually every hour, and it collects all the new content into a folder that is just waiting for you to come and read it
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Students use Weblogs as digital portfolios or just digital filing cabinets, where they store their work.
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She has used what are called audioblogs to help her students work on their reading and pronunciation skills. Pritchard records her students and posts the audio files on a Weblog. Then her students play the files back at school or at home when they want to hear how they sound. She has also used Weblogs with great success as a teacher mentoring tool. She and her entry year teacher archive their thoughts, reflect on their practice, and discuss their specific goals and needs for upcoming classes
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We had selected Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees for our Modern American Literature curriculum, and I decided to use a Weblog to carry on our conversations about the book outside of class. Since we were probably the first school in the country to study the novel, I wondered if the author might be willing to join my students in our online discussion. To our great surprise, she did, and my students got the benefit of a 2,300-word response to our "big" questions about the characters and the plot in the book [http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/beesbook]. In addition, we set up a Weblog for parents of my students interested in reading the book for themselves, and about a dozen parents held their own discussions in parallel to my students
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Andrea Nichols[http://lewiselementary.org/]
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But the promise of the Web as more than just a readable, searchable resource has been slow to be realized ... until now. Two new Internet technologies, We
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blogs and RSS (Real Simple Syndication), are redefining the way students and teachers use the Internet, turning them from mere readers into writers to the Web as
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well, and making it easier to filter and track the ever-growing number of resources coming online each day. In fast-growing numbers, educators across the country and throughout the world are finding just how powerful this new interactive Internet can be.
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Educators have been slower to adopt Weblogs for a variety of reasons, among them access, privacy, and security issues.
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the latest in news and events as collected from a series of separate Weblogs that are hooked together using RSS. Not only does this allow for the school's Web site to be a timely source of information, it allows a number of staff members to contribute in what is a more distributed content creation model:
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The collaborative aspect of Weblogs is what has brought many teachers into the fold. Commenting capabilities in many of the blogging software packages allow for easy peer review for students and teachers and make bringing in experts or mentors from outside the classroom easy
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. One such example is my own experience in a literature class I taught last year.
We had selected Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees for our Modern American Literature curriculum, and I decided to use a Weblog to carry on our conversations about the book outside of class. Since we were probably the first school in the country to study the novel, I wondered if the author might be willing to join my students in our online discussion. To our great surprise, she did, and my students got the benefit of a 2,300-word
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The aggregator checks the sites you subscribe to, usually every hour, and it collects all the new content into a folder that is just waiting for you to come and read it.
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For educators, the potential significance of RSS is huge. Think about how teachers and districts could use this syndication process to communicate with students, parents, newspapers,
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In the classroom, teachers who have students create their own Weblogs can easily keep tabs on what those students are posting by subscribing to their students' feeds and simply checking their aggregators regularly. If school Web sites were built on a foundation o
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Lynne JonesBlogging and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators
by Will Richardson, Supervisor of Instructional Technology, Hunterdon Central Regional High School
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She has also used Weblogs with great success as a teacher mentoring tool. She and her entry year teacher archive their thoughts, reflect on their practice, and discuss their specific goals and needs for upcoming classes
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Hundreds of librarians have realized their power in communicating information about resources and in starting conversations about books and literacy. Students use Weblogs as digital portfolios or just digital filing cabinets, where they store their work. Teachers use blogs as classroom portals, where they archive handouts, post homework assignments, and field questions virtually.
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paul reidA way to communicate with students and parents, archive and publish student work, learn with far-flung collaborators, and "manage" the knowledge that members of the school community create.
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