Literacy Breakfast – blogs & blogging
April 19, 2006 by Brent
This post is an outline for my presentation to a group of high school and elementry school teachers (and a few community ageny staff). Twice a month the Literacy Committee at my school, led by Lynn B. organizes a Literacy Breakfast and invites our teachers and interested staff from elementry schools. I am very pleased to have this opportunity to present a small workshop on blogs and blogging.
Introduction:
We have only a few minutes to talk about Blogs and Blogging this morning. My goal is to present you with some introductory information and to help you start your own blog. The resources I have assembled will be available to you via this blog so you can take your time and learn at your own speed and interest.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me after this presentation for any follow up discussion.
Presentation Outline:
What is a blog and what is blogging?
Wikipedia definition
Wordpress – Introduction to Blogging
Homecoming - Brent Mackinnon
The Open Classroom – Jo McLeay
Download – spirit and essence of classroom blogging
Ways to use blogs in education
Why Weblogs – Will Richardson
Christopher D. Sessums: Blogging as an expression of self
A blog is more than a communication tool
- Freedom to copy
- Freedom to modify
- Freedom to reproduce
- Freedom to redistribute modified versions
How can we be sure that information from open systems (Wikipedia, blogs, open sources etc.) is truthful and accurate? Here is a very thoughtful post from Temmu Arina at his blog Flosse Posse
“As a conclusion, Wikipedia is not really there for educators, news papers or fact seekers to refer as a truth. Wikipedia is not really about teaching facts. It’s about conversations. A wiki page is inviting for a change. It’s never ready, it’s never a truth. It has a discussion section for seeking a common ground. Wikipedia is our greatest gift to education, because it makes us understand that facts are constantly shifting based on open conversations”.
Wikipedia and Free Culture – Christopher Sessums posted this article on a speech given by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia.
“What intrigued me most about Wales’ speech was his perspectives on culture, technology, and business.
For Wales, the Internet revolution is not about technical innovation, it’s about social innovation. It’s about the free licensing of information, neutrality, and openness”.
- Watch the movie (5 minutes 40 seconds)
- Watch the slideshow (2 minutes)
Edublogs.org
Hand outs, video instructions, links and related resources for your blog
PDF – Setting up your Blog at www.edublogs.org
Class Blogmeister – Classroom blogging
Practice Playground
Mighty Writers from grade 3
Do Something Disruptive Type 1 and Type 2 technology uses – Mike Muir
Mark’s Ed Tech Blog
The Real Tragedy of MySpace
Danah Boyd & O’Reilly Factor on MySpace
MySpace, HR 4437 and youth activism – Danah Boyd
Leigh Blackall
Integrating Technology in the Classroom
Educating the Net Generation - Educause
Glocalization – Danah Boyd
Education and Easter – Clarence FisherTools to help define literacy for the 21st Century – The Landmark Project”
Wesley Fryer: Integrating Technology in the Classroom
Will Richardson – Weblogg-Ed
Gardner Campbell – Notes on Remarkable Things
Stephen Downes – Stephen’s Web
Del.ic.ious
Podcasting
Audacity
George Siemans: Connectivism – Rethinking Learning
Kathy Sierra: A Crash Course in Learning Theory
Stephen Downes: His research page & much more – extraordinary writer, speaker and blogger
From Flickr we have some great fun tools.
- Flappr (click a flag!)
- Daily Zeitgeist
- Mappr
- Flickr Colour Pickr
- Flickr Graph
- a movie called:
Download (by Johnathan Coulton)
Warning: contains an off color remark towards the end
I am learning from edu bloggers all over the world. My apologies to the bloggers that I have left out. There are just so many writers and bloggers that have contributed to this mash up, I’m at a loss on how to include them.
The key edu bloggers that I leaned on the most in organizing the resources for this presentation are:
Darren Kuropatwa – (A Difference) Winnipeg Manitoba
Dean Shareski – (Ideas & Thoughts from an EdTech) Moose Jaw Saskatchewan
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5 Responses to “Literacy Breakfast – blogs & blogging”
Thanks for the attribution Brent. Looks like a great presentation — wish I were there.
Cheers!
Thank you Darren. your work is outstanding and I am a regular reader of your blog.
All the best,
Brent
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