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Michelle Krill

Educational Blogging (EDUCAUSE Review) - 0 views

  • Blogging is an opportunity to exchange our point of view with the rest of the world not just people in our immediate environment
  • Today, the weblog is frequently characterized (and criticized) as (only) a set of personal comments and observations. A look at the history of weblogging shows that this isn’t the case.
  • Weblogs (so named in 1997 by Jorn Barger in his Robot Wisdom Web site)
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      Here's one for the trivia buffs!
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  • Blogging not only allowed us access to the event; it made us part of the event. And with that, the form had indeed finally come into its own.
  • Though consisting of regular (and often dated) updates, the blog adds to the form of the diary by incorporating the best features of hypertext: the capacity to link to new and useful resources. But a blog is also characterized by its reflection of a personal style, and this style may be reflected in either the writing or the selection of links passed along to readers. Blogs are, in their purest form, the core of what has come to be called personal publishing.
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      This is a great definition for weblog.
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      5 uses of blogs in education
  • As Rosalie Brochu, a student at St-Joseph, observes: "The impact of the blogs on my day to day life is that I write a lot more and a lot longer than the previous years. I also pay more attention when I write in my blog (especially my spelling) since I know anybody can read my posts.
  • They’re using blogging software, their students use blogging software, but I’m not convinced that using the software is the same as blogging. For example, does posting writing prompts for students constitute blogging? Are students blogging when they use blogging software to write to those prompts?
  • Blogging is about, first, reading.
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    "Blogging is an opportunity to exchange our point of view with the rest of the world not just people in our immediate environment."
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    This is the point I'm trying to have teachers experience.
Michelle Krill

Telling Tales with Technology - 0 views

  • Stories definitely can teach, but they are also designed to be engaging, to pull at your heart as well as your head, and to help viewers draw conclusions about their own lives or actions."
  • felt that if they knew that they could turn those writing pieces — particularly the personal narrative that is part of the portfolio — into digital stories, their feelings about writing might change."
  • students creating digital stories about a time each of their lives changed.
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  • Health students create public service announcements on addiction, English classes create visual poetry, and history students interview their parents about their own high school years.
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