Blogs/Wikis

Teaching Hacks has an article covering how to use RSS to give out homework assignments. The idea here is to build an RSS feed that allows you to send out to your students the homework. I am intrigued by this idea, but it does seem a bit tech heavy. For K-12 the effort might be …..

Jenn’s classroom, the one where she has students blogging as part of the composition class, is approaching half-way through the semester. While she has met with success as far as getting students involved, she would really like to get outside comments on the students posts. That is, she wants to get the students to realize …..

Yet another online resource for educators, Academic Blogs is a web portal that keeps track of blogs in the academic blogosphere. The principle advantage of this site, over say Crooked Timber, is that this one is a wiki, so it remains rather dynamic and with the potential to be more thorough. The blogs are grouped …..

MSU has launched a site aimed at being the comprehensive on-line resource for those blogging in higher-ed. While I know of several resources for blogging in education most of these focus on k-12, Blogs for Learning fills a gap in higher-ed. In addition to tutorials on how to set up blogs (on several platforms) the …..

TechCrunch has an article about Citizendium a project by Larry Sanger, one of the founders of the now defunct Nupedia (harbinger to Wikipedia). Sanger apparently wants to make a better Wikipedia, or in his version a more civilized Wikipedia. Strikes me that Sanger has a real loser of an idea on his hands here. The …..

Thanks to Henry Jenkin’s blog I discovered The Project for New Media Literacy. I have been wondering about something like this. For sometime now there has been the need to think thru how significantly media literacy has changed and just as importantly to provide educators with tools and resources to teach this to students. Of …..

When I talk to profs. who are not particular comfortable with technology, but who use WebCT or Blackboard, I ask them what it is they use these course management programs for. Most commmonly the response is that professors want is the ability to have their syllabus on line, and the ability to post assignments, and …..

And last but not least for the first week of setting up the blogging classroom: What Jenn will cover on the first day of the computer lab. I am going to outline the “lecture” (not really a lecture but whatever. . .) here step by step in broad terms. A few of the specific steps …..

I started to write up a post about the organization for Jenn’s first day at the computer lab, that is the day helping students learn to blog and read blogs, but in the end I realized I can’t go any further without getting into RSS, and how it is going to play a critical role …..

So Jenn’s class started last week (St. Rose is one of those schools that starts before Labor Day). In class she surveyed (informally) the students about blogging and their use of technology, only one student currently had a blog, and none of them responded that they use an RSS reader. The first think that Jenn …..