Category: Blogging
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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.…
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Typo Generator
Now, here is a great way to kill time and generate cool graphics for your blog: typoGenerator Interestingly enough, the warning at the bottom of this image says “the images used for generating may be subject to copyright.” Also interesting, as soon as I clicked away from the page, the temp image that was stored…
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Blogs for Learning
Thanks to the team at MSU’s Blogs for Learning for featuring my blog under their “User Submitted Blogs” list. This looks like it can become a great resource based on what they have described here: What is Blogs for Learning? Welcome to Blogs for Learning, an online resource about instructional blogging. The site provides students…
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Learning to Write by Blogging with Purpose
As we think about the types of writing we ask students to do in school, and whether or not they feel it is for a real audience and purpose, can it even come close to this? Nick Barnowski is in multitask mode. His fingers dance around a keyboard, keeping up his end of the bargain…
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Educational blog listing in Wikipedia?
Dave, You suggest that we start entries on edubloggin. Wikipedia lists 18 other genres of blogs. Maybe we should think about starting an “educational blogs” page? Troy
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New Internet Writing Tools Workshop, Day One
Today, Anne and I facilitated the first day of the New Internet Writing Tools Workshop and our group has been talking about blogging and RSS. At the beginning of the day, we talked about how blogs are different from static websites and began subscribing to RSS feeds left and right. By lunch, they were pros…