http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org Andrew Oliver's blog on social web tools in education Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:58:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've finally made the move to blogger. Edbublogs was fine for a while but I find blogger a sleeker and slicker beast. My new blog can be found at : http://drandrewoliver.blogspot.com/ http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2009/04/22/blurring-the-distinction-between-blogging-and-wikiing/ Tag Clouds - More Possibilities It’s been a while since I last blogged about using tag clouds in education. In the meantime things have moved on particularly with the arrival of the very wonderful Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/). Very easy to use, you just simply paste in your text and click on ‘go’. ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2009/04/22/tag-clouds-more-possibilities/ Okay. Onwards in my quest to find examples of using blogs for learning and teaching. I’m particularly after straight forward examples of their use for which I can then summarise and pass on to those of you who are interested. Stuart Glogoff’s article ‘Instructional Blogging: Promoting Interactivity, Student-Centered Learning, and Peer ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2009/04/17/blogs-in-education-part-2/ Well in fact 9 interesting ways. I picked this up recently via Tom Barrett on Twitter (twitter.com/tombarrett). This is collection of slides held as a Google Doc. A variety of authors have come up with a number of unique and interesting ways in which wikis can be used to support ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2009/04/03/interesting-ways-to-use-a-wiki-in-the-classroom/ Okay, so as promised some more on blogging – their use and assessment of. To help me along I found a very useful resource called ‘Instructional Blogging: Promoting Interactivity, Student-Centred Learning, and Peer Input’ by Stuart Glogoff, (link). There are some very interesting and very useful methods outlined here relating ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2009/04/02/blogs-in-education-part-1/ How do we assess blogs in teaching?  In the past I have tended to focus on the benefits blogging can bring to education. And this is an area I will continue to focus on. However for the next few weeks I’m going to look at assessing student blogging as an ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2009/03/31/assessing-blogs/ Okay so I’m back after a small break (the reason is here). I thought I would re start by using my blog to pull together the varying thoughts I have on using socially based learning technologies  in learning-  not so much on their benefits as that’s been covered elsewhere but ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2009/03/31/a-new-direction/ If you're going to BETT 2009 this year (Web Link) keep an eye out for the new SMART Table which uses multi touch technology. As you may be aware SMART tend to dominate classroom interactive boards and now it seems they are set to do the same with the so called ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2008/12/16/multi-touch-technology-on-its-way/ I like the latest post from the Sargent Park Math Zone (Web Link) which is a classroom blog hub for grade 8 students (14 years old) in Canada. What's happening here is that Chris Harbeck is teaching maths through the medium of poetry. The students have been asked to create 5 ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2008/12/16/poetry-maths-and-growing-posts/ Answer: A 21st Century primary school class. From the 'ICT in my Classroom' blog (Web Link). Another example of early school use of technology to enhance their learning. In this examples it's science - specifically looking at how day length varies across the UK and the differences around the world. Google Earth was ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2008/12/16/question-what-uses-twitter-google-earth-and-google-docs/