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Blogging
While searching for something else, I came across this short article from a series called Teacher time savers: Web-based productivity tools on Learn NC, the North Carolina Teachers' Network website. It gives a good overview of possible uses of weblogs in schools. Blogs are great tools for use in education. Whether used as student journals, bulletin boards, administrative tools, or sources of research, the blog's versatility offers a number of functions which educators should find appealing. Their informality and ease of use make them engaging to those who have discovered them. Their currency makes them another source of information as we seek answers. Their ability to spawn discussion from one blog to another make them excellent tools for hearing both sides of the story and encouraging participation from everyone.
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Radio Paradise and What Feedback Is All About
I really like the articles that are posted on Xplana. These people are in higher education, so obviously some of their ideas don't apply as easily to the K-12 setting, but usually the philosophical stance has some application for me. I really enjoyed this article about internet radio as well as about involving students in the instructional design through feedback..
Yesterday I talked about the need to get people involved in proofreading work that is published on the Internet, using user feedback to compensate for the downside of quick-and-dirty publishing. The Attenza Knowledge Base that we use where I work has a great feature that lets users quickly post corrections to articles - it's not a comment, it's not a discussion board, it's just a way to let the owners of the content know that there is some kind of error that needs to be fixed. We all know that not everybody has time to join in an online discussion, and some people are just not inclined to discuss - but getting them to help correct errors is surely a good thing... [Xplana]
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Wikis and weblogs
And on the same topic as the post below...
WikiLog I love wikis...I think they have so much potential for collaboration. Yet, I don't know if they'll really take off. When I explain blogging...people seem to get it (though they may never intend to blog on their own). When I explain wikis, I get blank stares. Something about it just doesn't compute (is it the openness? the trust? the sharing?). Not a good sign. [elearnspace blog]
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Weblogs and wikis
I met yesterday with a colleague whose sabbatical project for next fall is to design a mentoring program for new teachers at our school. I showed her some weblogs and we talked about potential uses for a blog as a reflective journal. I think I should also show her some wikis, although I don't know as much about them. Wikis have even more potential for fostering collaboration among teachers. Note to self: consider how wikis could be used in curriculum planning and in teacher/librarian/tech collaboration for unit planning and delivery.
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Ireland experiments with text messages to ensure attendance
Two schools in the country are automatically sending text messages to the mobile phones of parents of students who are absent. If the absence is not legitimate, parents can call back to confirm. Yahoo/Reuters (5/8) via ASCD Smartbrief.
Cool! This is what I like to see -- uses of current technology in obvious ways to replace and improve old systems. This article points out, of course, that "there had been some resistance from students to supplying their parents' mobile numbers." I think we should be looking at ways to use SMS for communications with students, not just their parents -- school activity news, homework assignments, library overdues :-).
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