Category: Blogging
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Note from “Blogging — Maximizing Writer’s Notebooks with a 21st Century Dimension”
Here are notes from my Crossroads Writing Project colleagues, Lavon Jonson and Sonja Mack: “Blogging — Maximizing Writer’s Notebooks with a 21st Century Dimension.” Background Bringing blogging into the traditional process of using a writers notebook Writing with your students encourages them to write (Graves, etc.) Blog Growth In April 2007, 70 million blogs, 90%…
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An Update on Blogging, Podcasting, and Wikiing with Pre-Service Teachers
January has been a busy month for me as I have been coordinating field placements for my ENG 315 students and we have begun exploring the use of blogs, wikis, podcasts, and RSS in our teaching lives. When we began this work a few short weeks ago, only a handful of these pre-service teachers had…
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Shout Out to Aram Kabodian
And, finally for tonight, a quick shout out to my friend and RCWP colleague, Aram Kabodian, who is getting back into the blogging business this holiday season. Mr. Kabodian’s Blog Well, I took the plunge and let people know I’m playing with pageflakes and bustin’ out this blog. And people actually responded! It was nice…
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Notes from “Educational Blogging: What, Where, Why and How”
Today, I had the chance to attend an educational technology session at MSU featuring Nicole Ellison, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media, MSU College of Communication Arts and Sciences, and Leigh Graves Wolf, Learning Technology and Culture Programs, MSU College of Education. Their topic is “Educational Blogging: What, Where, Why and How.” Here are…
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IMing Back in the News
It’s been about a year since I’ve seen an article like this pop up — perhaps it has to do with going back to school and all the negative ideas that technology can bring in relation to the state of our language and culture: The walls between the school and the cellphone or computer screen…
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“Using Technology to Tell Stories” Blog
Bonnie, Kevin, Tonya, Mary, and I are blogging at the “Using Technology to Tell Stories” blog. Thanks to Bonnie and Kevin for getting the ball rolling on this. We are focusing much of our attention on digital storytelling, but there are other threads evolving, too. So, check it out. Also, just to continue the read/write…
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Telling the Technology Story in K-12 Schools
The past week or so has been crazy. Yes, busy crazy for me personally, for sure. But, I am talking about another kind of craziness. I am talking about the number of teachers that I have talked to who have been fighting filters, trying to get equipment to work, and generally trying to make meaningful…
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Thoughts on "All Things Google: Thinking Across Software Modules”
Today, Andrea and I are presenting at the annual MSU Tech Conference, and we are both sitting here in the kiva, Macs at the ready, to listen to the following panel discussion: All Things Google: Thinking Across Software Modules Google recently released a number of powerful, free tools that are very useful for classroom teachers.…