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The following is a list of all entries from the RSS & Blogs category.
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Podcasting
You may have noticed the new, “Listen to this podcast” link below each post. Courtesy of Talkr, my *dedicated* readers can now listen to all of my blog posts on their computer, MP3 player, or PDA.
Blogs for Learning
Thought this might be of interest to our Williamson Pilot group. It has case studies, tutorials, and other web 2.0 info.
“The goal of Blogs for Learning is to provide information and resources
as to the technical, legal, and pedagogical aspects of blogging in the
classroom.”
Can teachers do it alone?
I just read a post from Harry Tuttle’s blog about teachers and their dependency on technology staff is schools.
Have
teachers embedded technology-infused learning activities into their
curriculum so that they are self-sustaining and even constantly
improving? Or is technology use dependent on people outside the
classroom?
Education with Technology: Dependent or Self-Sustaining Technology-Infused Learning
It made me think about the blogging/web 2.0 transition Williamson is trying to make. I have met with each of the teachers and showed them how to login to their blogs and post. I have even shown a few how to utilize RSS and other web 2.0 tools. Once I leave their rooms or they leave my office, what happens? Will they need to contact me for more help? Are they ready to “run” on their own? I worry that pushing technology too fast can mean more work for the technology professionals and more headaches for the faculty attempting to use them. What’s your take?
Blogging Regulation
It’s done! We finally have a bloging regulation at Williamson! Attached you will find the file for your perusal. Let me know your thoughts and comments.
WCS Blogging Regulation
Why blogging? & How can we control it?
A few teachers have stopped me in the hall and asked “why the push for blogs?” I say, why not? What have blogs done to earn such a bad reputation thus far? Sure, a few employees (OK, maybe 36) have been fired over the content found within their blogs. But why? Probably because they were not following the rules and regulations set-forth by an AUP (Acceptable Use Policy). These employees were posting confidential information, gripes about co-workers, and innapproriate photographs. Sure, all of these offenses warrant the given punishment. It would be no different than a student posting answers to an exam (confidential information), bad-mouthing a teacher or other students (gripes about a co-worker), or posting crude images (innapropriate photographs). If done, students would face immediate consequences and likely a pretty harsh punishment. So why is it a surprise that these employees were fired? Just as we need to make sure our students understand the severity of publishing for the world to see, so do corporate employees. How do we accomplish this? Through the use of an AUP. If a student were to post innapropriate pictures on his or her blog, how would we be able to appropriately punish if the offense was never deemed an official violation? Through the use of an AUP.
What would a blogging AUP do for Williamson?
It would list all accepetable and unacceptable uses of blogs in the district. It would also lay a framework for infractions and their respective punishments. The WCS Classroom Blog Policy would require both parents and students to sign before being allowed to actually blog within the district.
Blog Policies
After a month of deliberation, we have decided to open up edublogs.org to the faculty and students at Williamson. We realized that it was important for teachers and students to use a more popular blogging service. Yes, we can use in-house systems and things such as Elgg, but it just isn’t the same. We are looking forward to moving ahead with edublogs and the policy writing that must happen before we “open” it up.
Anyone with blog policy writing experience, please post a comment! We are looking for ideas from experienced educational bloggers!
Blogging!
Finally! Blogging has come to Williamson! We will be working with BOCES and using Elgg to blog within the district. I am looking forward to working with the teachers and implementing blogs into the curriculum.
