ACTEM 08Blogging WorkshopACTEM 08Blogging Workshop

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Support

•www.bobsprankle.com

•ACTEM BLOGGING Wiki

•Email: bob@bobsprankle.com

•Will's Book

So... why do you want to Blog?

How Can Blogs Improve Student Learning?• True Constructivist Tool for

Learning

• Expand the Walls of the Classroom

• Archive the Learning

• Supports Different Learning Styles

• Enhance Development of Expertise

• Teach New Literacies Needed for Information Society Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts byWill Richardson

The Room 208 Story

Secret Life of Blogs

Here a blog, there a blog...

Math + Students = Blogs

Great Article

•Play

•Performance

•Simulation

•Appropriation

•Multitasking

•Distributed Cognition

•Collective Intelligence

•Judgment

•Transmedia Navigation

•Networking

•Negotiation

New Skills Needed:

Stages of Technology Integration

Adopt and Adapt: Shaping Tech for the Classroomby Marc Prensky

1. Dabbling.2. Doing old things in old ways.3. Doing old things in new ways.4. Doing new things in new ways.

Biggest Bang for your Buck...

BLOGS

Come Together

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If you build it... they will come

•Reading

•Commenting

•Writing

Blogs = Conversation

Safety

Safety

On Wiki:

RSS

Aggregators

Blogger

EduBlogs

Class Blogmeister

What is Micro-Blogging?

What is Micro-Blogging?

Twitter

What is Mo’ Blogging?

What is Mo’ Blogging?

What is Mo’ Blogging?

Portfolios

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