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Anonymity and Self-Disclosure on Weblogs - 0 views

  • Research has shown that online communication lends itself to self-disclosure (Joinson, 2001; McKenna & Bargh, 2000; Tidwell & Walther, 2002; Wallace, 1999). Because of the relative anonymity that online interactions may offer, the risks of self-disclosure may be greatly reduced, and disclosers should be much less fearful of potential condemnation or rejection (McKenna & Bargh, 1998, 2000).
  • serve the purpose of personal expression well and represent an ideal medium for self-disclosure.
  • Previous studies have shown that bloggers overall are fairly young.
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  • 87 expressed concerns that what they blogged could negatively impact their lives.
  • Among these respondents, 23.00% (n=20) explicitly reported they were afraid that their family members might read their blogs. For example, one respondent wrote: "[I'm afraid] that my parents will eventually discover its existence.
  • The typical approach to blogging, at least among the respondents of this study, may more appropriately be described as lighthearted: Bloggers simply intend to share a little fun and stay in touch. When it comes to self-disclosure, it seems that they are cautious so as to avoid potential backlash.
  • discursive anonymity, on the other hand, refers to the condition where verbal communication cannot be attributed to a particular source.
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Podcasting - EduTech Wiki - 0 views

  • The concept of podcasting was proposed by Tristan Louis in October, 2000 and then it was carried out by Dave Winer, the author of the RSS format. Winer defined a new element called enclosure which passed the address of a media file to the RSS aggregator and then, he succeeded in enclosing a Grateful Dead song in his weblog on January, 2001.
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TechTiger's Weblog - 0 views

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    "Uncanny" may be a feeling that most of the parents of students in my online course may be feeling as they support their child in taking an online class.
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    Some of the students in my online course may identify with the character TechTiger. Being part of the millennial generation, they may feel misunderstood by their parents and teachers.
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    According to Michael Wesch, 112.8 million blogs have been created over the last five years. Anyone could be a published writer!
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    Click on Kanying's name. We are familiar with blogs and journaling, however it is amazing to see a blog that is written in a different language. It is even more amazing to think about the 112.8 million blogs that are created and how many of them are in foreign languages. If we were cultural anthropologists, what could we learn from viewing these diverse digital journals?
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    This is a common misconception for parents. They think that because their child is working on a computer it is unconstructive. In some ways their theory is true, especially if their child is not taught how to constructively use the computer as a learning tool. How do we instill in our children and students that the computer is a powerful learning tool?
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    These are just a few things students could do using a web blog. What if they were instructed on how to use this technology based environment in an educational setting? The child's learning possibilities would soar.
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    Parents, teachers, and administrators need to be instructed on how to create meaningful learning activities using new technology such as the computer. Students are longing for this kind of authentic and meaningful learning. What is the purpose of school if students are not presented with critical thinking and problem solving activities that bring them to a higher level of thinking and learning?
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    The resource I would like to add for the MERLOT project is actually a resource that I submitted to MERLOT back in April. The resource is a blog/power point presentation that is designed to be a resource for parents. The information in this power point presentation comes from Victoria Carrington's article "The Uncanny: Digital Texts and Literacy". The power point presentation is designed in an easy to read story book format which tells of a modern day child named "TechTiger" who changes the perspective of his parents, teachers, and other in the older "uncanny" generation due to his media literacy and experiences with contemporary culture. I will incorporate this resource into my online course by adding it to my parent corner. Since my Life Cycle course is intended for a third grade audience, I have designed an area for parents so that they are aware of what their child is learning in this course as well as ways they could enrich their child outside of my course on topics they are learning. Some parents who have their child enrolled in my online course may be "uncanny" to media literacy and have some of the concerns that are addressed in the resource TechTiger's Space. The resource TechTiger's Space may put into perspective some parent's fears with technology as well as the added benefits to put their minds at ease and support their child's online learning experience.
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Mimi Ito - Weblog - 0 views

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    cultural anthropologist studying new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the US. My research right now focuses on digital media use in the US and portable technologies in Japan.
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Reflections on Online Learning - 1 views

  • Age problem, an overload of information to the point where in heavy doses it begins to resemble garbage is the problem of our day.
  • How will I balance these issues? How can you have non-hierarchical education within the confines of traditional educational pedagogy especially in an online environment? I feel like I’m taking a big risk here with this topic.
    • alexandra m. pickett
       
      hi mike! i think it is a risk, but i am open to you trying. frankly, i don't see how it can work, but if you are passionate about it and believe it can work and will show and prove that it can, i would support your choice and be very interested to see that.
  • Not just another Edublogs.org weblog. :D
    • alexandra m. pickett
       
      brilliant!
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    • Diane Gusa
       
      Bookmarked a book in diigo that someone pdf. Teaching as a subversive activity. Wouldn't it be great if you created such a wonderful course that your students CHOOSE to continue learning without credit!
    • Diane Gusa
       
      You may also want Kohn's Punish by Rewards. Another worn out book on my bookshelp.
  • So what does this mean for education? How is this different online? And why do I believe that I only understand the stick?
  • What is my role? What is the future role of the instructional designer?
  • I couldn’t help but think that all of these questions led to more
  • Time to finish strong.
    • Donna Angley
       
      :-)
  • education is one of the most fundamentally revolutionary acts.
  • he power or the perceived power of education and it’s threat even in relation to the most influential and powerful in all of the land.
  • I still am holding on to Alex telling us to challenge our assumptions about online learning and what it means. I think that should spill over to everything if we really want to affect change in this world and in the field of education. What are we assuming? What can be changed? What seems like it’s either a precursor or indispensable even if this may not be the case at all?
  • Understanding history and using it is cheating in a way. A good type of cheating. We can stand on the work of those before us and take the best or the most appropriate for our time. We can use a historical perspective to give a voice to the voiceless of history.
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Digital Stories of Deep Learning - 0 views

    • Diane Gusa
       
      This is a good philosophy for our blogs...
  • As the Stanford Learning Technologies group has evolved the technology to support its research project on "folio thinking," researcher Helen Chen reports that they are beginning to use blog or "wiki" software to support students' reflections. David Tosh and Ben Werdmuller of The University of Edinburgh have published a paper online (PDF) entitled, "ePortfolios and weblogs: one vision for ePortfolio development."
  • Janice McDrury and Maxine Alterio (2002), two educators from "down under" have written a book called Learning through Storytelling in Higher Educatio
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Teaching Hands-On Classes Online | e-Literatee-Literate - 0 views

  • What’s interesting is that the methods, i.e., substituting real-world items in the student’s immediate environment when that’s possible and creating online simulations when it’s not, marry so well together in an e-learning environment as strategies for dealing with what is fundamentally an environment of low situational control for instructional designers.
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