EdBlogger Praxis

Broadcasters of Tomorrow

A Collaborative blog by Journalism students. Great photos!

Link: Broadcasters of Tomorrow.

Broadcasters of Tomorrow

Video, News and Commentary from Arab Journalism Students

telfordteacher Collaborative Blog from the UK

Thanks to Richard Smith for sending a link to their Telford UK Educator Collaborative Blog built around integrating learning technologies into the curriculum. Below is some added backround information.

Link: telfordteacher.

      

 

background:

 

5 ICT consultants work in schools in the area of Telford UK. We work with teachers in their own classrooms with the main aim of embedding ICT in their tecahing. It is a very rewarding job with lots of positive feedback.

 

communication:

 

So that communication is encouraged after we finish our work in the school we have set up a blog. Some of the teachers refer to this regularly for ideas and contribute ideas. http://telfordteacher.blogspot.com

 

 

support for students:

 

We encourage the students to take responsibility for their own learning by providing ideas  that enable them to swap ideas and research projects using modern technology. If any establishment or individual is keen to make a link with us in Telford please email richard.smith@taw.org.uk

 

many thanks

 

Richard Smith (team Leader for Hands on Support)

 

On The Cutting Edge-ucation

Comment:New collaborabite blog built around moving podcasts into the classroom.

Link: On The Cutting Edge-ucation.

On The Cutting Edge-ucation

We're building a repository of instructional ideas and strategies for using podcasts in schools.

Feel free to post any ideas you have, whether they're brainstorms or refined activities and units. Any ideas are welcome, even if they may seem difficult to implement.

PINOY TEACHERS NETWORK

Comment: Wishing our fellow educators of the Pinoy Teachers Network happy blogging as they get started on this collaborative blog.

Link: PINOY TEACHERS NETWORK.

Today, July 12th. It's a special moment for Filipinos in the field of Education. It is the opening debut of PINOY TEACHERS NETWORK, it's a global network! I helped in organizing this by doing my share of contributed writings and by encouraging my fellow teachers & aspiring educators to join. (Yes, I wrote the rules & guidelines!) If you know anyone who is a teacher, a professor, working in the education field or studying to become a teacher...please pass this information to them. I'd like to see a lot of people get involved with this network. I know you are out there, and I'd like to meet you and support you!

About Localghost | L0calGh0st

Comment: This multi-author blog has been added to the educational collaborative blog list. Topics are around the hot issues regarding military recruitment in our high schools, economics, and more, etc.

Link: About Localghost | L0calGh0st.

Localghost is a progressive education web magazine focusing on contemporary issues of secondary, post-secondary, and popular education. It is a resource for teachers, students, and especially those who would like to become involved in the great debate of how knowledge is disseminated through our educational institutions.

LIT Reflections: Teaching Information Literacy

LIT Reflections: Teaching Information Literacy: "LIT Reflections: Teaching Information Literacy These are the reflections of the LIT, Library Instruction Team, of Gainesville College on teaching information literacy, developing online coures, using WebCT, and general library "stuff"."

Teaching and Developing Online

Teaching and Developing Online

This blog will focus on the teaching of High School online. There are many approaches to online education and we are here to share them. The tint of the cyber glasses are a result of working at the Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School.

From Sandra Climenhaga

Here are some of the topics or categories addressed on the blog.

Administrivia
Articles
Assistant Principal Log
Developing
First Hand Accounts
Neat Websites
Questions
Teaching
Upcoming Conferences

Student Discourse -NCTE Project Blog

Well, we have started weblog for our NCTE 2 year project on ELL student discourse. We had a great meeting on Friday after school. We are slowly building a Community of Practice that includes members of both our National Science Foundation Grant and the NCTE Grant. Within the group of collaborators are members of the Whittier School Staff, UIC School of Education professors and a member of the Che Che Konnen center. We have a linguist, two ELL science/math specialist, education pychogologist that gives us teachers a multiple view of what is happening as we look at student work and transcripts. What the science specialist doesn't see, the linguist does. In addition, we have one site that is closed to the public for more sensitive conversations.

We are just starting out. The blog serves as a news blog for all project members.
In addition, we have set up a wiki and iphpCalendar that we are just getting to understand.

Basecamp Project Managment Blog in Elementary School

Things have been a bit hectic here at my elementary school, as our principal decided to leave the madness of being a principal in the Chicago Public School system one year before her contract was up. I wish her the best that life has to offer, as she moves on this coming July.

As part of the Local School Council and a teacher representative on the Council, we find ourselves beginning the precedural aspects of starting the search for a new principal.

Usually during this time, we are charged with reviewing and providing feedback on the School Improvement Plan for the next academic year. Our council decided to add a fourth goal to the School Improvement Plan, that would link school and home to community resources.

We have a group of staff, former staff and a local organizational partner thinking through the meaning of making our school a more vibrant school with more services to match the need of our students and parents.

We use an online tool called Basecamp http://www.basecamphq.com/

Basecamp is a secure blog space. It provides a good way for us to keep connected so that we do not let important ideas or tasks "slip through the cracks". So far, so good.

Part of the hook is that we are doing something that the members of this blog find highly motiviting and the common sense idea that we lose threads of the conversation if we rely on email. I would say that it is a good tool that is developing as time moves on.

Web-based project management the way it should be • Easy setup — 10 seconds to a new project • Blog simplicity — Posting project updates couldn't be easier • Simple scheduling — What's due, when it's due, who's responsible • To-do lists — Make sure all the little things get done • Web-based and hosted — No install or IT staff required • Useful technology — RSS, iCal, and Mozilla Calendar integration

Revising Teaching

Revising Teaching

The mission of this website is to give writing teachers and tutors a forum to reflect on the many ways we might improve our teaching. Hosted and edited by Kathryn Evans, Revising Teaching is a group blog welcoming contributions from those who believe that good teaching, like good writing, is achieved through constant revision.

As teachers contributing to this website, we recognize the ever-shifting rhetorical situation present in each class we teach, we imagine and choose among multiple ways to address our diverse audiences, and we continuously assess how our work in progress might be revised. Our teaching isn’t perfect—no one’s is—but for us there is no greater challenge than trying to make it so.

If you are interested in writing a contribution for Revising Teaching, you should feel free to do any of the following:

* describe a revision that you—or a colleague—have made to your teaching, including what led to the change and, if applicable, the results of the change

* describe an extended teaching moment—one in which you tried to teach something, found that it didn’t work, and tried it another way (an on-the-spot teaching revision)

* quote a research report, theoretical article, or practitioner-oriented work (from composition studies or any other field) that you feel has important implications for revising teaching; briefly discuss these implications and, if possible, provide the full citation

* link to a story or website you think is important, give an overview of the contents of the site, and briefly discuss the implications you see for revising the teaching of writing

* tell stories or quote student comments that validate common practices, letting us know that past revisions to our practices have indeed been successful and perhaps motivating us to more thoroughly integrate such practices into our teaching

If you would like to contribute to Revising Teaching, please click here to learn more.

Contributors to date include:

* Kathryn Evans, University of San Francisco
* Paul Matsuda, University of New Hampshire
* michael moore, Michigan Tech
* Andrew Strycharski, University of Miami

Comment: I enjoyed the posts on this blog, and wish the collaborators and future collaborators much success on this recent endeavor!

Into the Blogosphere

Into the Blogosphere

This forthcoming online edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays will analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. Such a project requires an interdisciplinary approach, and contributions will represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others. Publishing Model

Along with this being the first scholarly collection of its type focused on weblog as rhetorical artifact, we are also taking an innovative approach to publishing and intellectual property. Weblogs represent the power of regular people to use the Internet for publishing. The ethos of blogging is collaborative and values the sharing of ideas; bloggers are not dependent on publishers to get their words out. In the same manner, the editors of this collection will publish the collection online. We will use a peer-review process to ensure scholarly quality. But like a weblog, the collection will be available to all (although authors will retain their own copyrights).

Comment:Link courtesy of Rich Rice, EdBlogger Practioner and writer. Rich is a founding editorial board member of this new publication. I look forward to seeing its first edition!

The Connected Familly

The Connected Familly

The Connected Familly at http://papert2004.blogspot.com/ is a weblog about the book of Seymour Papert. Done by my 40 students of Educational Technology while the reading of the book. In portugueses, of course. University of Lisbon

From Fernando.

Comment: We have to remember that edblogging is happening outside of the U.S.A.

women in it education

women in it education

A research site that will dig into the reasons why the numbers of women are not graduating from schools of information technology. Elizabeth Lane Lawley and Tona Henderson from the Rochester Institute of Technology are leading this investigation.

The study will be done in two parts. The first will be a qualitative study of all women, and a sample of men, entering the IT department at RIT as freshmen. These women will be interviewed upon entrance into the program, at the end of their first quarter, and at the end of the academic year. Based on the information gained in that study, key factors related to women’s persistence or attrition will be identified. The second part of the study will be the development of questionnaires for faculty and students intended to identify the presence and influence of those actors in academic departments. The questionnaire will then be administered at departments of IT across the US, in order to determine whether the factors identified at RIT can be generalized across institutions.

misbehaving.net

misbehaving.net

misbehaving.net is a weblog about women and technology. It's a celebration of women's contributions to computing; a place to spotlight women's contributions as well point out new opportunities and challenges for women in the computing field.

The_Circle

The_Circle

A Collaborative Blog started by Nancy Peralta and a fifth grade teacher . The Circle Website dedicated to Literature Circles.

Next week I will begin working on Literature Circles with a 5th grade classroom. The teacher is excited about using Literature Circles and will begin with the book "The Chocolate Touch." I suggested she try blogging about her experiences with Literature Circles and how blogging fits in so I've created this page for that purpose.

The Circle is following the model started at GSU professor Anne Davis. Beautiful synergy!

Peer Centered

Peer Centered

Peer Centered is a space for peer writing tutors/consultants to blog with their collegues from around the world. Since many writing centers already keep their own shared journals, we think this is a good way to promote/explore writing center work. Bloggers here will share their ideas, experiences, or insight. If you work in the writing center and want to join the blog, contact Clint at Clint.Gardner@slcc.edu.

Comment: Thanks Clint for the lead to their blog. Wishing you well in this collaborative endeavor.

New Media Journalism

Seton Hill is sprouting blogs and it isn't even Spring. The New Media Journalism blog is a group weblog for the Seton Hill University community started on September 14th.

Mike Arnzen's Pedablogue, which was posted on this site this past week, is a part of the Seton Hill domain.

Webquest Collaborative Blog

Learning About Web Site Usability is a webquest for upper high school students. Students learn about website usability through a webquest format.

"They've offered your team $10,000 for the job, but only if your work is satisfactory. You have one week to learn about web site usability in general, and one week to test a site with real, live users and then present your findings to the consulting firm about what makes a web site usable."

One of the members of the team Jeremy Hiebert, write about this project on his blog

This is the first WebQuest that I have seen using a blog.

New Blogs being built at Empire State University

As mentioned in an earlier post, the Empire State University is now building a virtual lounge for Master of Arts in Teaching faculty and administrators. It's called, "Let's Talk Teaching" . Now member blogs are being built.

Empire State U - MAT Program Blogs

The Empire State University is now building a virtual lounge for Master of Arts in Teaching faculty and administrators. It's called, "Let's Talk Teaching" .

Thanks for posting edblogger praxis and other EBN member sites on the weblog resource site.
http://esc.weblogger.com/weblogs

Wishing Dawn Rodrigues and staff success.

Collaborations

First, thanks to Al for this site. This is a great collection of teachers and educators that I will be visiting often.

I just wanted to introduce myself and post about a new collaboration at my school that Al mentioned earlier. I really believe that the greatest potential of Web logs across disciplines is the ability to bring many different audiences into the classroom, and I've been looking for and developing as many of these different relationships as possible. This latest undertaking, however, is definitely the biggest, and I've been trying to figure out the best way to make it work effectively. Any suggestions are appreciated.

We're bringing together about 75 students from elementary and high schools in the US and Poland to interact about cultural differences and specifically, effects of the Holocaust. There are about 15 areas of discussion that I've decided to break out into separate Web logs; trying to make it all work in one site seems a bit overwhelming. This way at least all of the discussions are in separate spaces linked by a homepage. I'm still thinking about the best way to sort the discussions on each site, however, though I'm hoping this will pretty much work itself out as we get into it.

I know that most edu-bloggers realize the potential of all of this. And it's great to see so many new teachers trying this out and being willing to experiment. As Al says, it's about the adventure.

Collaborative Teacher Blog

Pam Pritchard sure has the mojo working. Pam is not only a teacher and an edblogger evangelizer on various levels, she is also a mentor teacher to a new teacher!!! Here is the collaborative blog between a her and Tonya. Great idea! Wishing you both success! It has been added to the collaborative teacher blog list.