"Instead of assigning students to go write, we should assign them to go read and then link to what interests them and write about why it does and what it means."37
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14 Steps to Meaningful Student Blogging - 151 views
AP Art History - Blogging in the Classroom (an Update) « Indiana Jen - 9 views
Twitter Acquires Blogging Platform Posterous - 36 views
Top 10 Technology Blogs for Education - 5 views
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Education, as with all aspects of culture, is greatly impacted by the forward progress of technology. Several blogs are maintained by well-known individuals in the field of education. These top 10 technology blogs address technological developments as these innovations relate to education.
Keeping parents in the loop - Live Blogging from Camp - 1 views
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My experience of blogging from camp to keep the school community updated.
Summary of Findings | Pew Internet & American Life Project - 0 views
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2006 report by Pew institute on blogging.
Interesting stat: more than 54% of bloggers surveyed were under the age of 30.
Educational Blogging (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 1 views
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Blogging is about, first, reading. But more important, it is about reading what is of interest to you: your culture, your community, your ideas. And it is about engaging with the content and with the authors of what you have read—reflecting, criticizing, questioning, reacting.
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For blogging in education to be a success, this first must be embraced and encouraged.
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An older article (circa 2004), but it contains relevant points on blogging by students in a classroom environment.
8 Tips For Blogging With Students | Edudemic - 93 views
elearning Island part 2…failing? - 43 views
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Some ideas on Personal Learning Networks and Blogging
Should We Really ABOLISH the Term Paper? A Response to the NY Times | HASTAC - 45 views
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I no longer engage in a ritual that too often happens among assigners of research papers (you know who you are), that frantic last week reading and marking 50 term papers before grades are due. Too often, in the old days, I would read and write comments on papers that wound up in a box outside my office door that few students ever came by to collect--a pointless and deadening pedagogy if there ever was one.
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Interestingly, the tipping point in these classes is when someone the student doesn't know, an anonymous stranger, responds to their work. When it is substantive, the student is elated and surprised that their words were taken seriously. When it is rude or trollish, the student is offended. Both responses are good. The Internet needs more people committed to its improvement, to serious discourse.
ELI 2012 General Sessions and Featured Presentations - 39 views
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Video capture of the general sessions and featured presentations from the Educause Learning Initiative 2012 conference in Austin, Texas.
a mother blog: "Blogging the VT Honors Residential College" - 2 views
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An example of the "mother blog" concept in an implementation of student blogging in the residential honors college at Virginia Tech. (Posts from all student blogs are aggregated on this blog as well as links to the blogs/comments themselves.) Some stunning examples of student blogs. Particularly see the blog "Catching Up."
eLearningIsland - Part One | eLearning Island - 1 views
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I am a teacher blogger from Ireland for the past three years. This is the first of two reflections on what I am at. Teachers considering blogging might find it useful.
1968 Exhibit - 6 views
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Given all the events of the 1960s, this site is a gem for keeping up and finding classroom activities.
Blog from you iPhone - 0 views
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It's easy to use Blogger on your iPhone (and android, too I imagine)... this post only discusses iPhone.
Teaching with Technology in the Middle: Finding new hope for research papers (and a new... - 7 views
Blogging Tips for Teachers | The Cornerstone - 101 views
Blog the Leap Year - 53 views
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Mark 29th Feb by getting your class to take part in the world's biggest blogging project.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
