03 Blog FSC/MEC Weblogs as Teaching Tools F08

Class,

This afternoon I'd like to speak with you regarding how much of the last two
agendas you managed to sift through.

After that, I'd like you locate a pair of apparently curriculum useful blogs and
subscribe to them. Next, I'd like you to set up a blog for yourself after going
to https://www.blogger.com/start. Between each class, I'd like you to stay
current with your two subscription blogs and then record some of your
observations in your personal blog as reflections. Some guidelines follow:

Please create entries after each class session that reflects on at least two of
the points below:

o how they would use some of the previously covered topics to enhance
their teaching.
o creating a specific Weblog teaching unit.
o at least one useful idea gleaned from another teacher in the previous
class.
o the usefulness of the Weblogs to which they have subscribed


Please give me access to your blog. I'd also like you to let your fellow class
members have access if you don't object. In that way, we get to share in a way
that amplifies our learning experience.

Please look at these additional resources that might help you out and give you
some ideas:

o Locating educational Weblogs from About.com
http://websearch.about.com/od/internetresearch/a/newsblog.htm
o Edublogs Forum http://edublogs.org/forums/
o Mrs. DuBoses' Super Science Class
http://adventuresinscience.edublogs.org/

o Spinning Yarns Around the Digital Fire: Storytelling and Dialogue Among
Youth on the Internet From Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual
(2004), 63-75
http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/gradstudents/huffaker/papers/Huffaker2004_Spinni
ngYarnsDigitalFire.pdf

The below site is interactive. Although I cited it for its etiquette component,
it is very extensive and lets you chose a number of various blogging aspects.
Its worth a look.

o Blogging Etiquette for Students
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index.asp?objID=ETO506

All of the above will be sent to you via email this afternoon. See http://mecblogclassf08.blogspot.com/

Eric