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Kent ISD 23 Things: Thing 2 - Create a blog to use during the project
My "Why Blog" video that I made for Sue Waters.
What Are Your Thoughts on Educational Blogging? | Sue Waters Blog
1. Demonstrate how conversations in blog comments provides greater knowledge gain for all involved, because each individual sees a different perspective of the task – giving everyone greater “food for thought!”
2. Model personal learning networks in action!
Computers in Education Group of South Australia - Edublogs
While blogging has many benefits, there are some potential challenges and barriers that come with using this tool with students. It is important that teachers fully understand these before beginning to blog with their students.
The Reading Workshop: Goals and Benefits of Student Blogging
one might question, what do you want the students to get out of this project? How will it help them? Are the benefits academic and or social? Listed below are the goals and benefits of student blogs.
Techbootcamp: David Truss discusses WHY BLOG?
My YouTube Video to go with my 'Blogs as Learning Spaces' post
k12learning20 - 4-blog2
Blogging is more than writing. Blogging is reading, reflecting, questioning, researching, synthesizing, linking, conversing, teaching, sharing and expressing ideas. Blogging is about writing, but blogging begins with reading.
Remote Access: Growing Student Networks
a vital part of our role needs to be helping our students to make new connections and expand their own network. A classroom that is connected, even loosely, with other nodes around the globe has a much greater opportunity to gain new ideas and perspectives than one which is focused inwards.
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"The shape of a social network helps determine a network's usefulness to its individuals. Smaller, tighter networks can be less useful to their members than networks with lots of loose connections (weak ties) to individuals outside the main network. More open networks, with many weak ties and social connections, are more likely to introduce new ideas and opportunities to their members than closed networks with many redundant ties. In other words, a group of friends who only do things with each other already share the same knowledge and opportunities. A group of individuals with connections to other social worlds is likely to have access to a wider range of information. It is better for individual success to have connections to a variety of networks rather than many connections within a single network."
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a vital part of our role needs to be helping our students to make new connections and expand their own network. A classroom that is connected, even loosely, with other nodes around the globe has a much greater opportunity to gain new ideas and perspectives than one which is focused inwards.
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Don’t try to control it « The Thinking Stick
Start with the idea and apply the tool.
If you start with the tool first…you have a lesser chance of effecting learning. This happens to me quite often. A teacher will come to me and say “I want to blog.”
OK, that’s great, but why? What are you thinking? Why do you want to blog? What do you know about a blog?
Brendan’s Learning 2.0 Project » Blogs: more than mere blah-blah!
What struck me just as much, however, was the quality of the comments left by readers of this post. They too, without exception, had profound and thought-provoking ideas to share. I found myself becoming immersed, albeit as merely an observer, in a spellbinding conversation between David and his readers as I read down the page.
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Based on my own experience of blogs, I used to think their content was usually pretty banal. In the past two weeks I have uncovered some truly remarkable blogs and posts that are anything but banal. Just take a look at David Truss’s post Two Wolves, from his reflective blog Pair-a-Dimes for your Thoughts. This post relates an old Cherokee parable (Two Wolves) to the theme of Remembrance Day and includes thoughts and reflections by David that truly took my breathe away. I stopped and thought, ‘this guy has a gift’. His thoughts are inspired, thought-provoking and very honest. The piece was quite long compared with some blog posts, but I found every word had value. I have read it several times. Definitely not banal. What struck me just as much, however, was the quality of the comments left by readers of this post. They too, without exception, had profound and thought-provoking ideas to share. I found myself becoming immersed, albeit as merely an observer, in a spellbinding conversation between David and his readers as I read down the page.
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In conclusion, blogs are so much more than what I at first thought. So what’s
their application in the classroom and for my teaching? In terms of writing a
blog, I see many applications for students. Even as a student-authored
reflective class journal as we progress through the course.
Blog Action Day 08
Check back here on October 15th to see live updates of posts, podcasts and videos going online for Blog Action Day.
The Power of Educational Technology: Ten Tips for Growing Your Learning Network
Great advice to the newbie.
In the beginning… « Adventures in Middle School
The goal of all this is to imagine. As I have told my students every year, at the end of the school year, I will be the one who has learned the most. I feel the same way about this blog. Even though I’m the one writing, I want to learn the most. Thanks to David Truss and his BLC08 presentation “This, my blog has taught me.” What an inspiration.
Share More! Wiki » Work/Build Your Own Personal Learning Network?
If you fail to connect to the network of learners, you miss out on a global conversation about what you are passionate about.
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If you fail to connect to the network of learners, you miss out on a global conversation about what you are passionate about. And missing out is a darn shame because it can save you time, energy, and increase your reach, no matter how brilliant (or not) you are. That’s a powerful idea. Smart people get smarter because they have access to the network of learners. People who are just starting out are able to learn as fast as they can to accomplish what they need to do.
When I meet folks who are just becoming aware of the global conversation — usually because I push them over the edge in a workshop — I like to share several tools with them.
The Power of Educational Technology: Seeing the World through Blog Colored Glasses
I continue to be amazed by the affect that blogging has on my thinking. Everything I do and see and experience is filed away as a potential blog post. I make meaning of my world in ways I never did before. I am constantly composing posts in my head. It makes for some incredible learning experiences, but can also make it hard to sleep.
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I continue to be amazed by the affect that blogging has on my thinking. Everything I do and see and experience is filed away as a potential blog post. I make meaning of my world in ways I never did before. I am constantly composing posts in my head. It makes for some incredible learning experiences, but can also make it hard to sleep.
Share your Blogging Experience and Tips For Educators New To Blogging | The Edublogger
So can you please share with us:
* Why you blog? How does it benefit you or your work?
* How you use blogging with your students and how it has helped them (if applicable)
* Examples of class and/or student blogs for them to check out
* What are your 3 most important tips for educators, new to blogging, who would like to blog with their students?
Can You Use Aids To Help Conversations? | Mobile Technology in TAFE
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What is aidRSS
AidRSS monitors a blog feed by creating PostRank™ for the posts based on the amount of conversation generated (combination of number of comments, del.icio.us links, tweets, Diggs and Google trackbacks). - datruss on 2008-05-27
Reflections: Stirring in the crock pot | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
- I have also been reflecting on this blog over the past while. It has been wonderful documenting my trials, tribulations, and triumphs over the past few months, and the cathartic nature of blogging is one that I can no longer do without. - datruss on 2008-05-15
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I have also been reflecting on this blog over the past while. It has been wonderful documenting my trials, tribulations, and triumphs over the past few months, and the cathartic nature of blogging is one that I can no longer do without.
Blogging with students requires biting your [digital] tongue | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
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I really wanted to post a little timeline. Earlier I actually started typing a comment suggesting that perhaps Da Vinci used the same model for both paintings, then erased it rather than posting it… I forced myself to ‘bite my tongue’.
The fact is that I am not used to letting students take ownership of their learning in this way. I want to ‘teach’ them… isn’t that my job?
But if I had put that “perhaps Da Vinci used the same model” post in after the 5th or 6th comment, would the other comments have followed? - datruss on 2008-05-15
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I really wanted to post a little timeline. Earlier I actually started typing a comment suggesting that perhaps Da Vinci used the same model for both paintings, then erased it rather than posting it… I forced myself to ‘bite my tongue’.
The fact is that I am not used to letting students take ownership of their learning in this way. I want to ‘teach’ them… isn’t that my job?
But if I had put that “perhaps Da Vinci used the same model” post in after the 5th or 6th comment, would the other comments have followed?
Start Your Own Blog | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts :: David Truss
Personal Reflections:
-This was the first time I tried to do technology based professional development, beyond introducing a few tools to my staff, and I am happy with how things went.
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