The document discusses how digital technologies and online participation are transforming education and literacy. It explores concepts like digital natives, Web 2.0, participatory culture, and new literacies skills needed for students. Blogging is presented as a tool that can engage students in creating, sharing, and collaborating while developing these 21st century skills when implemented properly in educational settings.

1. Engaging Digital Natives through Blogging Examining 21 st century literacies and applications for blogging in the classroom. Jennifer Carrier Dorman

2. We are at a turning point in the tech industry and perhaps even in the history of the world Tim O’Reilly – Feb. 14, 2006

7. Get flat or be flattened

10. Digital Natives Who are the digital natives and what is their learning profile?

14. Web 2.0 The evolution of the semantic read/write web

15. Web 1.0  Web 2.0

17. Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture Media Education for the 21 st Century Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT

29. Blogs Students as Creators

32. Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/

33. Google Reader Labs https://www.google.com/reader/view/

40. Daily Scribe

41. Extending Class Discussion

42. Student Work Showcase

43. Student-Initiated Content

44. Student Sharing

45. Tips for Blogging http://blogging101.wikispaces.com/bloggersbeware