Archive for the 'blogging' Category
Sites like Facebook are proving the value of the “social graph”
From MITS Technology Review by Erica Naone, (Web Link).
A great article which looks at how you can represent a persons social graph - a person’s network of friends, family, and acquaintances.
The Blogosphere
Matthew Hurst, a scientist at Microsoft’s Live Labs, used a search tool, called Blogpulse, to generate visualizations of the blogosphere.
Credit Matthew Hurst (blog) via […]
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Peer Reviewing Blog Entries - The Good and The Bad
Via Blog vs. Peer Review Update: Interactivity Brings Some Surprises by Jeffrey R. Young.
A great little piece on the use of blogs to journalise research progress. Noah Wardrip-Fruin, an assistant professor at the University of California, has been posting a draft section from his forthcoming book, about analyzing video games, every one on a […]
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Academic use of Twitter
From academHAck (Web Link).
Twitter again. It seems to becoming quite popular. For info Twitter is a social networking (aka micro-blogging) service that allows users to send “updates” (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service or instant messaging. The act of doing this is called ‘Twittering’ and when […]
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Class Scribing Rules
Really one for the Primary Eds here. Scribing is a process by which class activity is recorded by a student in terms of the topics covered, resources found, group judgments and arguments etc. The summary is recorded somewhere, more recently as a post within a class blog or within the class wiki. This happens on […]
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Wikis and Blogs Rules Ok
I’m currently trawling through a number of educational wiki sites (supplied to me by Marija Cubric) at Examples of Educational Wikis (Web Link).
So over the next few days I’ll be posting some examples here.
First off is a set of wiki rules which I found at this school wiki (Mr. Armstrong’s U.S. History Wiki, click here).
The […]
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I Facebook through most of my classes…
Wow a real thought provoker this one.
Not actually about Facebook per se and neither related to my quest for learning and teaching examples in Facebook.
Basically a video created by Michael Wesch and 200 students ( Kansas State University). It looks at how students view education today. The content and conclusions, including how many hours students […]
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Release the Hounds
A great presentation by Chris Harbeck (blog) at the K12 Conference.
He divides the presentation into 4 learning journeys involving blogging, e-portfolios and unprojects.
Scribe posting - a ‘scribe’ in blogging terms is where a student volunteer records and summarises the class activity. The summary is placed on the class blog or wiki with the intention that […]
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Sustained Blogging in the Classroom
Very busy at the moment particularly as the Lifestyle Consultant has now started crawling (here’s a picture of him escaping).
I’m currently ‘attending’ the online K12 Conference and have just finished listing to Jeff Utecht on “Sustained Blogging in the Classroom”
Very interesting. The talk is quite short at around 25 minutes and addresses as to how […]
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Teacher as Blogger
Okay Primary Edders, one from the archives. This is a Link to a post on Konrad Glogoskis’s blog. It concerns the subject of tutor feedback on student blogs and on how the tutor, in terms of comment content, needs to bridge the gap between providing ‘feedback as the tutor’ to providing ‘feedback as the co-learner’. […]
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From vlogger to lecturer
A quick heads up about vlogging. YouTube vlogger Blade 376 (aka UH 2nd year Humanities student Myles Dyer) was invited by Sally Graham to come and talk to their first year BEds. Sally wondered “… could I really ask a 20 year old 2nd year Humanities students him to stand up in front of over […]
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