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Blog post by Paul Farol in the Blog Herald, published July 20 2011. The post describes how one might keep regularly scheduled blog posts interesting. While the focus is on writing posts for a corporate client, the ideas should apply equally to the posts we (eventually) write for our KPI readers.

According to her fans (see Why I Love Beth's Blog), Beth's Blog provides "deep analysis of social media campaigns, trends, and uses" along with case studies.

Posted by Melissa Terras in her eponymous blog, April 3 2012. Terras, a scholar in the Digital Humanities in the UK first uploaded her published papers to her school's digital repository and then blogged and tweeted about the papers. She has seen great growth in the download rate for these papers, though not across the board. To wit, she's increased her prominence (and that of her papers), but some of her papers are of greater interest than others. In future, she hopes to track her citation index over time, though it's too soon to measure at present.

This nicely summarizes Terras's lessons learned: "If (social media interaction is often) then (Open access + social media = increased downloads)."

The Learning Network Blog on NYTimes.com. For two years, students, teachers, parents and others have posted and commented on this blog. Daily lessons for subjects across curriculum based on Times content are offered. Suggestions are given for using the The Learning Network posts in the classroom. The Learning Network is accessible without a digital subscription, as are the articles linked from Learning Network posts.

Posted by Beth Kanter on her blog, Beth's Blog, July 13 2012. In this post, Kanter includes a recent presentation titled The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation; with much food for thought in terms of the process, the tools and the possible positive results.

By Lanwitches on Langwitches blog, March 29, 2010. This blog post includes a slideshow that describes 70 web-based tools that might be of interest to educators. The tools are only roughly categorized. As the author notes, "It is not about the tools, it's about the skills." That said, there are some interesting tools here.

From their site, "VideoDiary™ Blog is a versatile, reliable consumer research tool" that might be used to create a "research blog community."

This is the blog space of Dr. Alec Couros, professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. He's been blogging in this space since 2004 and, according to the About page, posts "personal reflections and resources related to teaching and learning, democratic media, critical media literacy, digital citizenship, openness, and social justice."

From Joshua Kim's Blog U, Technology and Learning blog, part of Inside Higher Ed. In this post, Kim lists 10 multimedia competencies that all new college grads should have, cribbed from Mindy McAdams' Reporter's Guide to Multimedia Proficiency.

By Ian Quillen of the Digital Education (blog) in Education Week, September 2 2010. This study suggests that "Algebra I teachers who were trained in and used a program that allowed them to monitor students' progress on graphing calculators led to significantly improved achievement by their students on a researcher-designed test." This blog post (and the video link) both stress that it is the combination of technology AND professional development that has provided these positive results. \nNOTE: First link to Summary of Findings is a Texas Instruments report (TI produces the graphing calculator that is part of the study). However, the study was conducted with outside consultants, including SRI.

This is the blog from nuPolis (for more on nuPolis see tag "nupolis") with regular postings on innovation in a variety of fields, including education.

This blog provides current news on open innovation conferences, presentations, etc. Most months, there are 1-2 new posts.

Posted by Hans de Zwart to his blog, Technology as a Solution..., July 19, 2011. de Zwart conducted an experiment with his virtual team (18 people) asking them to "narrate their work," using the microblogging tool Yammer. He tried to make the rules as easy as possible, so there was no requirement on how frequently they blogged, etc. At the end, he conducted a survey, which is summarized in this post. I strongly recommend reading the original post as well (link in 1st paragraph).

Is this the equivalent of our "Rants and Raves" or coffee klatch? Would microblogging seem less onerous a task, so that we might do it more frequently? Is this the "killer app" for project management?

This blog acts as the home home space for the online course Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, considered to be an early example of a MOOC. The course (and this blog) were developed by Stephen Downes and George Siemens, who co-facilitated the course. Using this interface, the course was offered in 2008 and 2009.

Blog post about her company/community, Powerful Learning Practice, on the blog Connected Educators, posted Dec 18 2011. Nussbaum-Beach founded Powerful Learning Practice, with creates virtual CoPs, primarily with K-12 educators. Their model is to collect teams from several schools to work together in a larger CoP. In the first year, participants share in an action research project; if they chose to continue for a second year, they "collaboratively create" a classroom unit.

Many of the ideas here -- specifically those around engagement and various assessments/measures of success -- seem akin to KPI's own findings. Interesting project and interview.

By Chuck Frey, posted to Mind Mapping Software Blog October 21 2008. This blog concentrates on mind mapping software. In this post, they make recommendations about software that will be useful in project management, though presumably some PM tools will also include such mapping features.

A blog by the Chronicle of Higher Education that started in May 2010, Innovations brings together several regular bloggers on the topic of innovations. Bloggers include Sandy Baum (Skidmore College), Michael McPherson (Spencer Foundation), Marybeth Gasman (Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania), Richard Kahlenberg (Century Foundation), and Richard Vedder (Center for College Affordability and Productivity/Ohio University).

This blog, part of The Broker, an online magazine published by the Foundation for International Development Publications, appears to have been created around the 'Innovation Dialogue on Being Strategic in the Face of Complexity' conference, organized by Wageningen University and Research Centre, Nov 30 and Dec 1, 2009. All posts pertain to the conference. There are also user comments.

By Jim Shelton and John Easton of the U.S. Education Department. The authors blogged as part of the National Journal's Expert Blogs - Education area. In the initial post, Shelton and Easton post some questions about effective innovation. In the comments section (24 posted as of 4/1/10), others in the field respond.

Posted by dskmag on the blog Design for Learning, May 28 2011. This blog is written by Dean Groom, who has an interest in "embedding new pedagogical classroom practice to create authentic, realistic and relevant learning for today's learners." This post describes ways to make LMS (and online courses) more engaging, following a gaming/Xbox model.