I’ve been reading your wiki comparison articles, and for many of you, I’ve included some comments at the bottom of the page. If your page doesn’t have comments yet, it will soon.
I’d like you all to begin posting to your blogs. I want to learn more about your projects so that I can know what [...]
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Your comparison of 2 wikis is due tonight, so I won’t give you an additional assignment to comment on.
(Special thanks to Marty whose Wiki Smackdown article has this picture.)
Even though not all of your articles have pictures of angry kangaroos, I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen of your articles. Make sure your name is added to [...]
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There are people out there who think Wikipedia should be banned. Senator Ted Stevens, believes you should Ban Wikipedia in all schools and libraries. This is the same man who famously described the Internet as a “series of tubes.” He doesn’t have what you could call cyber street cred, so he’d be easy to dismiss, [...]
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I’ve enjoyed reading your comments about being Pioneers, Settlers, or Colonists, the classic roles that people play in adopting new technology. I really saw that exercise as a warm-up for the links I’m sharing with this weekend.
Wikis need to be adopted by a larger group to add info from multiple vantage points, and to take [...]
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I hear the first step toward recovery is admitting you have a problem.
Let’s be honest with ourselves. We’re EDTEC students, and we like to try new things. Why learn about emerging technology? For some of us, it’s just because it’s new.
I buy a new iPod just about every time they come out with a [...]
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A news reader allows you to read everything that’s happening on a Web site without ever viewing it. Without my newsreader, there is no way I’ll be able to see what you all are posting to your blogs for this class. You’re all teachers. Could you imagine visiting all 20-something of your student’s blogs every [...]
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I’d like you to watch this screencast about the evolution of the heavy metäl ümlaüt. The screencast is a few years old, so the current wikipedia entry has changed since then, but it’s a great look at how collaboration is happening on these articles.
The discussion pages are fascinating to me, and are a critical ingredient [...]
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Sadly, this is a true story. I popped over to my own blog today after our class to write a quick post, and when I signed in, I saw that I had 53 comments waiting for moderation. All of them are spam. What happened?
I don’t post to my own blog very often, and don’t get [...]
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Thanks for a good session. Good luck in Wikispaces this week. Here’s a link to our recording.
Here are my slides from today.
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I’ve enjoyed reading all of your comments. I’ve been blogging since 2003, but am quite sure that I’ve had more comments in this week than I have in 5 years of blogging. Of course I realize that you all are posting because it’s a requirement, but I’ve really enjoyed checking your comments each morning. (Hang [...]
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Isn’t youtube great? I know it’s probably blocked in your district, and can be tough to use it in the classroom, but I love the fact that we can find, make, or share videos with other people from around the world. There are lots of youtube spin offs, like Teachertube.com is a youtube for educators. Or [...]
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Yesterday’s screencast showed you how to manage your links and how I set up the links to everyone’s blogs. Hopefully you aren’t having any trouble moderating or leaving comments on your classmate’s blogs.
Now that nearly everyone has added the email addresses you used to register for edublogs.org, I’m going to to add you all as [...]
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You know from the title of this class that we’ll be talking about podcasts and vodcasts, but here’s an example of a screencast. A podcast is an audio file, and a vodcast is a video file, but a screencast is a narrated screen recording made with something like Adobe Captivate, or Tech Smith’s Camtasia or [...]
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Should you be blogging?
Well, of course, I’d say that you should be blogging because you have assignments. (Just to clarify, each week you are required to respond to my entries on this blog. A reminder that you need to have your Edublog set up and have your first post written by midnight Tues. You have [...]
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A short post from me today, because I want you to spend time reading some of 2007’s top Edublogs. Visit the EdublogAwards.com Web site, and look for a blog that interests you.
There are 14 categories for different Edublogs. Visit the links on the right side of the page to see the nominees for any of [...]
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Internet Explorer
One of my pet peeves is people that call this icon “the Internet.”
Yes, it takes you to the internet, but no, it isn’t the program that runs it. Internet Explorer (IE) is just one of many tools you can use to browse pages. This post explores a few of the alternatives, and hopefully you’ll [...]
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Throughout this course, we’ll be looking at both the benefits of new technology and the risks that come with using it. Blogs and Wikis are vulnerable to spam, so your settings are a critical part of set-up. As I’m writing this, you all are posting comments on our first post.
I used Jing to make a [...]
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Here’s the link to the archive of our first session together. This site is really the best resource for information, but if you’d like a copy of my slides, you can find those here.
There is no prompt for this post, so you don’t need to comment unless you’d like to. Thanks for a good session. [...]
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This post is my chance to introduce myself. I’ve been teaching classes in our department since I graduated in 2006. It’s the second time I’ve taught learning through blogs and wikis, and the third time I’ve done the podcasting class. However, it’s the first time I’ve combined the two, which is going to be a [...]
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We’ll be using Edublogs.org for this class. If you’re familiar with Wordpress, you’ll recognize the publishing software. If not, don’t worry. There are a number of wonderful video tutorials to help you get started.
I chose Edublogs over some of the other multi-user blogs for educators, because they’re free, they’ve got great support, stable software, and [...]
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