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Blog If You Love Learning: Weblogs in Education Lucy Gray & Judy Beaver Apple Distinguished Educators 1 Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Blog If You Love Learning:

Weblogs in EducationLucy Gray & Judy Beaver

Apple Distinguished Educators

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Welcome

• Workshop wiki:

• http://lucygrayworkshops.wikispaces.com

• Workshop blog:

http://macworldedubloggers.blogspot.com/

• Post a brief intro on the workshop blog.

• Give your email address to Judy or Lucy.

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Workshop Overview• Introductions

• Blogging Basics

• Following Blogs

• Our Favorites

• Best Practices

• Tools

• Bling

• Resources

• Creation

• Reflection

• Evaluation

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KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas

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KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas

• Gen Y Attributes

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KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas

• Gen Y Attributes

• Unbundled Education

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KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas

• Gen Y Attributes

• Unbundled Education

• Participatory Pedagogy

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KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas

• Gen Y Attributes

• Unbundled Education

• Participatory Pedagogy

• Personal Digital Media

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KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas

• Gen Y Attributes

• Unbundled Education

• Participatory Pedagogy

• Personal Digital Media

• Media-Savvy Youth

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KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas

• Gen Y Attributes

• Unbundled Education

• Participatory Pedagogy

• Personal Digital Media

• Media-Savvy Youth

• Technologies of Cooperation

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KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas

• Gen Y Attributes

• Unbundled Education

• Participatory Pedagogy

• Personal Digital Media

• Media-Savvy Youth

• Technologies of Cooperation

• Media Rich Pervasive

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Today’s Teen - Born 1990

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First Grade - 19966Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Fourth Grade - 1999

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Middle School 2001-2003

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High School - 20049Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Sophomore year - 200510Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Junior Year 2005-200611Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Senior Year - 200712Thursday, January 17, 2008

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According to Pew...

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According to Pew...

4 Key Teen Realities:

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According to Pew...

4 Key Teen Realities:

• Teens are technology-rich and enveloped by a wired world.

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According to Pew...

4 Key Teen Realities:

• Teens are technology-rich and enveloped by a wired world.

• Mobile gadgets allow them to enjoy media and communicate anywhere

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According to Pew...

4 Key Teen Realities:

• Teens are technology-rich and enveloped by a wired world.

• Mobile gadgets allow them to enjoy media and communicate anywhere

• Teens know that ordinary citizens can be publishers, movie makers, artists, song creators, and story tellers

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According to Pew...

4 Key Teen Realities:

• Teens are technology-rich and enveloped by a wired world.

• Mobile gadgets allow them to enjoy media and communicate anywhere

• Teens know that ordinary citizens can be publishers, movie makers, artists, song creators, and story tellers

• Teens are multimedia multi-taskers.

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Margate Park14Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Sam

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Presentation Zen16Thursday, January 17, 2008

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My Blog17Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Objectives• Explore various blogging tools

• Investigate and critique the educational possibilities

• Help you get started with your own

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Blogging Basics

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What is a weblog?• a simple way of publishing

to the web

• requires little technical expertise

• can embed photos, video clips and links in a blog

• posts are displayed in reverse chronological order

• people can respond to entries

• accessible; can make public or private

• can be followed through RSS feeds and a newsreader

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Why?

• publish assignments

• ask questions and invite responses

• record lessons and ideas

• point colleagues to resources

• develop a personal learning network

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Where?• School intranets

• World Wide Web

• Ning

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How?• Free tools

• Blogger

• Blogmeister

• 21Classes

• For purchase

• Typepad

• WordPress

• iWeb

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Blog Vocab• RSS - “A technology that allows web users to receive (ongoing,

constantly updated) information collected from many sources through a simple reader. This is supplied through an “RSS feed” that users can subscribe to.

• Newsreader- a piece of software or web site that allows one to aggregate, organize, and read RSS feeds.

• Tag - a label that can be applied to a blog post to categorize posts and to make content available via search

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What’s RSS?

RSS in Plain English - Commoncraft

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Our FavesStudentTeacher

AdministratorClass/Project-Based

Video Professional Development

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Lucy’s Criteria• Updated regularly

• Not completely self-promoting

• Rich educational content

• Thoughtful commentary

• Creative projects

• Evidence of student learning

• Compelling graphics

• Clean Design

• Originality

• References kids’ work

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Contact Info

Lucy GrayUniversity of Chicago

Center for Urban School [email protected]/AIM: elemenous

http://lucygray.org

Judy BeaverPunahou School

[email protected]

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“... if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.”

-John Dewey

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