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Slide 1: Blogging for the Classroom Spiro Bolos New Trier High School spirobolos.blogspot.com
Slide 2: What is a blog?
Slide 3: “Blogs in Plain English” | from commoncraft.com
Slide 5: “If you are in the position where you need to take a white person to lunch for business or pleasure, saying “I know a great sandwich shop,” will always bring out a smile. The white person will then tell you about the great sandwich shop in the town where they went to college and how they had a crush on a waiter, or that there was some special sandwich that they always ordered. This will put the person in a good mood.”
Slide 10: What is Blogging for the Classroom?
Slide 11: What is Blogging for the Classroom? Hosting online discussions
Slide 12: What is Blogging for the Classroom? Creating Class Publications
Slide 13: What is Blogging for the Classroom? Sharing your lesson plans
Slide 14: Organizing What is Blogging for the Classroom? your activity/event
Slide 15: What is Blogging for the Classroom? Creating a functional website
Slide 16: Rationales
Slide 18: John S. O’Connor
Slide 20: Wheaton, IL
Slide 21: Winnetka, IL
Slide 24: “Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies”
Slide 26: “It's a teachable moment...an opportunity to address the differences between formal and informal writing. They learn to make the distinction...just as they learn not to use slang terms in formal writing.” — Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist at Pew
Slide 28: “The Pedagogy of Weblogs”
Slide 29: “Weblogs are truly a constructivist tool for learning.”
Slide 30: “Weblogs truly expand the walls of the classroom.”
Slide 31: “[B]logs archive the learning that teachers and students do.”
Slide 32: “[T]he Weblog is a democratic tool that supports different learning styles.”
Slide 33: “Weblogs can enhance the development of expertise in a particular subject.”
Slide 34: “[B]logs can teach students the new literacies they will need to function in an ever expanding information society.”
Slide 35: “There are many skills and concepts that need to be addressed...to foster these new literacies. It is not just a matter of transferring classroom writing into digital spaces. Teachers need to address...how to cite and link and why, how to use the comment tool in pedagogical ways, how to read web materials more efficiently...”
Slide 36: “Blogging requires us to teach students to critically engage media....[h]ow to become efficient navigators in these digital spaces where they will be obtaining a majority of their information.” — Anne Davis, Georgia State University
Slide 37: Types of Classroom Blogs
Slide 38: Teacher-centric
Slide 41: Student-centric
Slide 42: “...sometimes it did not even seem like a homework assignment.” — Sara D., Class of 2009
Slide 44: Student Blog Student Blog Student Blog Student Blog Student Blog Student Blog Aide Student Blog Home Blog (Teacher)
Slide 45: Student Blog Student Blog Student Blog Student Blog Student Blog Student Blog Student Blog “Outsider” Home Blog (Teacher)
Slide 46: www.anamericanstudies.com
Slide 47: H om e Bl og (T ea ch er )
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Slide 62: [from the Pew Internet and American Life Project: “Writing, Technology and Teens”] “Forty-seven percent of teen bloggers write outside of school for personal reasons several times a week or more, compared with 33 percent of teens without blogs....
Slide 63: Teens also report that writing for an audience motivates them to write well and more frequently — and blogs are one way of providing this type of audience.” — “Blogging Helps Encourage Teen Writing”, eSchool News
Slide 64: How private is this?
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Slide 67: Open
Slide 68: Open
Slide 69: What tools do I need?
Slide 70: Tools www.zemanta.com
Slide 72: Tools Google Analytics
Slide 74: (Sunday)
Slide 75: Tools Google Docs / Spreadsheets / Forms
Slide 86: Spreadsheet
Slide 87: Tools RSS Readers
Slide 90: Advice What has worked in the past
Slide 91: 1) Validate within the classroom
Slide 92: 2) Allow comments to count for participation
Slide 96: • Zemanta: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zemanta/2655752114/ • “Drilled”: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cayusa/2221656599/ • “Tools”: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashland/259178493/ • “Ratchet Set”: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tigrre/17460796/ • “My Swiss Army Knife”: http://www.flickr.com/photos/herzogbr/2274372747/ • “Wheaton”: http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveblog/19559607/ • “New Trier High School”: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Winnetka.jpg • “Questions Answered”: http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/223839049/
Slide 97: • “Spirals”: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nuanc/188202612/ • “Rationale for Educational Blogging”: http://anne.teachesme.com/2007/01/17/rationale-for-educational-blogging/ • “Blogging Helps Encourage Teen Writing”: http://www.eschoolnews.com//news/top-news/index.cfm?I=53663 • Solar System: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/wallpaper/art/Solar-system-1024_768.jpg • Classroom: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brajeshwar/324581085/ • “Little Secret”: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pricklebush/224674200/ • facebook logo: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/ssarc/facebook_pic.jpg • “Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies”: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1879169,00.html
Slide 98: • Construction: http://www.flickr.com/photos/desmondkavanagh/2189526652/ • Wall: http://www.flickr.com/photos/svenwerk/1973027093/ • Card Catalog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emdot/535440373/ • Delacroix: http://www.theartwolf.com/services/wallpapers/delacroix_1280-1024.jpg • Book (heart): http://www.flickr.com/photos/celedreen/3269920210/ • Information: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eskimoblood/2111672366 • A Tale of Two Cities: http://sbfmedia.relationalhost.com/prodimg/TALE_OF_TWO_CITIES,_A.jpg • Walled Garden: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8525214@N06/2938379788/