Blog, Wikis, Feeds Workshop

*Resources about* Educational Uses of Blogs (etc.)** Philosophical question: Is this Web page a blog?
"Educational Blogging" by Stephen Downes Lots of general background and intros to many tools available in 2004, with specific examples of higher ed use of blogs. E.g., "First, teachers use blogs to replace the standard class Web page. Instructors post class times and rules, assignment notifications, suggested readings, and exercises. ... "Second, ...instructors begin to link to Internet items that relate to their course. and ..short essays directed specifically toward his students...not mere annotations of interesting links... "Third, blogs are used to organize in-class discussions. ...students get to know each other better by visiting and reading blogs from other students. They discover, in a non-threatening way, their similarities and differences. The student who usually talks very loud in the classroom and the student who is very timid have the same writing space to voice their opinion... "Fourth, some instructors are using blogs to organize class seminars and to provide summaries of readings...“group blogs”—that is, individual blogs authored by a group of people... "Finally, fifth, students may be asked to write their own blogs as part of their course grade....students read a chunk of a book and post two paragraphs of their thoughts on the reading. ... "The process of reading online, engaging a community, and reflecting it online is a process of bringing life into learning. " EDUCAUSE REVIEW, vol. 9, no. 5, September/October 2004, pp. 14-16, 18, 20-22, 24, 26 <<http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0450.asp>>
"The Educated Blogger: Using Weblogs to Promote Literacy in the Classroom" by David Huffaker "This paper explores the role of Weblogs ...in classroom settings. Blogs, which resemble personal journals or diaries and provide an online venue where self–expression and creativity is encouraged and online communities are built, provide an excellent opportunity for educators to advance literacy through storytelling and dialogue. This paper explores the importance of literacy and storytelling in learning, and then juxtaposes these concepts with the features of blogs. The paper also reviews examples of blogs in practice." <<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_6/huffaker/index.html>>
Geneablogy (by Ralph Brandi) [Provided by Drew Smith, So. Fla. Univ. - 6/13/2006] <<http://www.brandi.org/geneablogy/ >> Steve's Genealogy Blog (by Stephen Danko): <<http://www.stephendanko.com/>> [Provided by Drew Smith, So. Fla. Univ. - 6/13/2006]
Intro for future teachers to some ideas for educational uses for Blogs and Wikis - really clear, simple well-organized materials and links from Rhonda Berger of Miami-Dade College http://www.rwlo.org/users/3372/Collaborative%20Website/overview.html
"Blogs: A Disruptive Technology Coming of Age?" By Phillip D. Long <<http://syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6774>>
Weblogg-ed, maintained by Will Richardson <<http://www.weblogg-ed.com/about>>
Weblogs in Higher Education, maintained by Ken Smith in the English Department at Indiana University South Bend "This blog / weblog is devoted to understanding the best pedagogical and other uses of weblogs and wikis in higher education" <<http://www.mchron.net/site/edublog.php>>
"How NOT to use blogs in education" By James Farmer, in Blogsavvy, July 27th, 2005 <<http://blogsavvy.net/how-not-to-use-blogs-in-education>>
Shedding Light/BLOG-MANIA from Ohio Learning Network; lots of useful links! <<http://www.oln.org/teaching_and_learning/shedlight.php>>
"Serendip ...an expanding forum and a continually developing set of resources..." Interesting similarities and intentional differences from most blogs - co-founded by Paul Grobstein <<http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/>>
From Sarah Roberts of Duke U. <<sarah.r@duke.edu>> http://www.campus-technology.com/article.asp?id=7982 "Campus Communications & the Wisdom of Blogging" by Sarah Roberts. One of the first articles on the implementation of blogging in the higher education space, with lots of suggestions about possible future instructions uses of blogs. Sarah T. Roberts, Academic Technology Services, Office of Information Technology, Duke University, Box 90258, Durham, NC 27708, 919 668 5289
"Collaborative web publishing as a technology and a practice" Part 1: http://alex.halavais.net/news/archives/000861.html Part 2: http://alex.halavais.net/news/archives/000866.html Links to a forthcoming book chapter on blogging in education -- with an eye toward higher ed.-- for the International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, forthcoming from Kluwer. Alexander Halavais, <<alex@halavais.net>>, Graduate Director of Informatics, University at Buffalo School of Informatics
From John Ottenhoff of Alma College <ottenhoff@alma.edu> http://www.cfkeep.org/html/snapshot.php?id=791 Recommends work of David Reichard at Cal State Monterey who did some interesting work in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning this past year with blogs. URL above is for Reichard's CASTL project. His email is david_reichard@csumb.edu. John Ottenhoff, Interim Assistant Provost, Chair and Professor, Department of English, Alma College, Alma, MI 48801; phone: 989.463.7138; fax: 989.463.7717
Link to home page of Ray Schroeder where you can find 3 often-updated blogs and more: Online Learning Update, Education Technology, and Techno-News http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/bloggerinfo.html Ray Schroeder <schroeder.ray@uis.edu> , Professor Emeritus of Communication, Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning, University of Illinois at Springfield and Faculty Associate at the University of Illinois Online Provided by From Dan Balzer <djbalzer@gmail.com>
From Schullo, Shauna of U. So. Fla. <<sschullo@tempest.coedu.usf.edu>> http://writingblog.org/joesblog Joe Moxley's blog(s) - comments both ABOUT using blogs in education and example of doing so himself.
From Rob Walker of U. of East Anglia <<rob.walker@uea.ac.uk>> http://www.uea.ac.uk/care ...I have tried using a field journal as a way of giving students some idea of what is involved in doing qualitative research. If you are interested you can access it using the typepad URL below my signature. The full report of the study (including the journal) is only available from my web pages under 'Recent writing'. Rob Walker, Director, Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia, NORWICH,NR4 7TJ, UK weblog: http://icare.typepad.com/research_journal_india/
From Nils Peterson of <<nils_peterson@wsu.edu>> Washington State has launched an enterprise blog tool as a result of work in the Center for Teaching Learning and Technology on next generation online learning tools. My perspective on blogging is around a key limitation we have seen in online learning environments -- the text created by authors is locked within the space where it was created (in effect, the author loses control of the text). We are interested in trans-course learning and having authors lose access to their work thwarts our interest. Blogging gives authors ownership. What we are now exploring is how the author can "permission" the blog post to appear within a course discussion space -- thereby having the best of both worlds -- class discussion and retained ownership.
Brief intro to Blogs as "Collaborative Publishing" within a Web-delivered information literacy course called "Internet Navigator" - developed by a team of librarians from academic libraries in Utah based on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and other documents.
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