Blogging For A Better Classroom 200pm

Blogging for a better classroom Vicki Davis, Teacher http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com Handouts http://coolcatteacher.wikispaces.com

Teacher

Blogger

November 2005

Research Based Best Practices

Authentic Assessment

Cooperative Learning

Project Based Learning

Taking IT Global Collaborative Project Contest First Place 2007 ISTE SIGTel Online Learning Award Winner 2007 Included in The World is Flat v3 Thomas Friedman Included in Grown Up Digital By Don Tapscott

The power of Three! The Power of “3”

KAIZEN = Slow, steady improvement

What is Web 2.0?

The tools in school changed

Get over it!

It is not a revolution its evolution .

But if you fight the evolution it will turn into a revolution .

Keynote for NetGenEd project – http://netgened.grownupdigital.com

Let’s Learn some New Words I am not afraid!

Source: The Wayback Machine Web 1.0 The Read Only Web

Web 2.0 The Read/ Write Web

Web 2.0 The Read/ Write Web The tools in school are changing again .

Blogs

Wikis

Podcasts

Social Networking

Tagging

RSS

Web 2.0

Every teacher needs an RSS Reader

Google reader – http://reader.google.com

Netvibes – http://www.netvibes.com

PageFlakes – http://www.pageflakes.com

Note: I did a Web 2.0 workshop series for Atomic Learning – if you have a subscription you can learn more there.

Meet your instructor: Vicki Davis Some of my classroom awards. ISTE’s 2007 SIGTel Online Learning Award Winner

What is a Blog?

Do blogs matter? I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years either. — Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, Dec. 5, 2002 “ The Internet’s first scalp.” John Podhertz, The New York Post

Media’s Response

A Kennedy school of journalism study found:

“ A certain receptivity in the bloggers allowed judgment in the press to correct itself.”[1]

[1] Rosen, Jay. "The Legend of Trent Lott and the Weblogs." Pressthink: Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine 15 Mar 2004 05 Jun 2006 <http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/03/15/lott_case.html>.

Blogs and the media!

Societal Shift

“ When the smoke cleared, mainstream journalism’s authority was weakened.[1]

[1] Pein, Corey. "Blog-Gate." Columbia Journalism Review 1: January/February2005 05 Jun 2006 <http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/1/pein-blog.asp>.

http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html

Web + Log = Blog

Blogosphere Facts

The blogosphere tends to double every 6 months.

The blogosphere is 60 times bigger than 3 years a go.

Fifty five per cent (55%) of bloggers are still blogging after 3 months.

A new web log every second.

Eleven per cent (11%) of blogs update weekly or more.

Why are blogs important?

The Media “mines” blogs for tomorrow’s news

People look to others for recommendations of their products. (So vendors give stuff to good bloggers.)

We trust people NOT the Powers that be !

Finding Blogs

Technorati (Blog Search Engine) www.technorati.com

Trusted Sources

Look on Blogrolls

Mine

On the left side of my blog

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com

What about bad comments?

Moderated comments

It takes time to show up.

Spam comments

Require you to enter letters to make sure you’re human.

“ Authentication code”

Post (the entry)

Comments

The Sidebar

The RSS Feed

About the Author

License

Blog Anatomy

Why should I blog?

Consistent bloggers have more influence than others.

The 11% who update at least once a week

Their opinions count like “votes”

Smart bloggers

Learn how to blog

Become respected authorities

Places for Classes to Blog

http://www.classblogmeister.com

http://www.edublogs.org

Youth Voices – High School Kids

www.ning.com

www.blogger.com

My blogs

http://westwood.ning.com

http://netgened.grownupdigital.com

http://digiteendreamteam.blogspot.com

Starting to Blog

Talk about Voice!

http://westwood.ning.com/profiles/blogs/693670:BlogPost:8384

Video + Blogging = Vlogging

http://www.youtube.com/user/digiteendreamteam

10 Habits of Bloggers That Win

If you mention it hyperlink it. Habit #1

The manual way to do it!

Habit #2 Have a tempting title.

Which blog post will you read?

A paragraph I read today

Ipods: Killing the CD as we Know it

Habit #3 Write and cut in half.

Exception

The “How to” Post

Then be very specific, give examples, show pictures.

Habit #3 Write and cut in half.

Write first, format second. Habit #4

Important formatting

Headings

Bullets

Quotations

Italics (sparingly)

WHITE SPACE!!

Habit #5 Paint a picture!

Places to Find Pictures

Creative Commons www.creativecommons.org

Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images

Flickr – www.flickr.com

Before you bag it, tag it! Habit #6

After you post it, ping it! Habit #7

How to ping

www.technorati.com/ping

www.pingomatic.com

Only ping if you WANT to be found!

People you link to will follow trackbacks to YOUR BLOG!! So get ready!

Habit #8 Never Throw Anything Away! (Archive It!)

Habit #9 Comment on the Articles you Write and Hyperlink to your article.

Habit #10 Get the stats back!

The great need for meaning

We want a global audience.

Must be done wisely and safely.

Commenting People read your comments People follow your Comments to Your blog You comment People read your blog

Where do I go from here? Start blogging!! Every expert was once a beginner.

Blogging For A Better Classroom 200pm

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