Monday, January 11, 2010

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  1. Denvy and GailJanuary 13, 2010 at 5:21 PM

    Common Craft is so great. I wish I had thought of that scheme and were skilled enough to do that. Maybe when I grow!

    Where do you want this blogging discussion to go? Well, that's where we're headed. Do you need a push? Dig out what others in the blogosphere and profession are saying and share it. Try the technical features, as you are. After that I see two major challenges: designing a plan to market our blogs or get people to read them; and refining our blog into a professional looking and behaving blog.

    The family's calling for food!

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  2. Airin HazelwoodJanuary 13, 2010 at 10:55 PM

    I say let the blog create it's own being. A blog is only as good as its participants. My plan is to provide resources for people to go to and get access to things that they could use if there is an interest. That being said. My intention is to go back and add a little blurb about each post so that people can easily assess a site's usefulness to THEM without taking the time. How about that?

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  3. VTJanuary 14, 2010 at 9:47 AM

    Thanks for sharing this. I watched so many of these videos for one of Dr. Bucy's courses last quarter. The Common Craft creators really focus on teaching you how to do something and why this new technique is helpful. I think that's at the core of what we're doing here. Yes, I learned something new but how will it improve my teaching and practice as an educator?

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  4. Airin HazelwoodJanuary 16, 2010 at 2:03 AM

    Vanessa,

    I included this RSS in Plain English video only because the topic came up. It is a bit complicated so don't stress if you don't see how it can help right now. RSS feeds are really best used when the entire class is ready for a less concrete technology (and you, of course).

    Well, learning about RSS specifically will only help if you are interested in having your classroom reach out into the community. You would want to use this for podcasting or videocasting. As an educator finding a way for students to reach out into the community and grab their attention with their own words can be a very profound experience for the students. Podcasting, videocasting and blogging offer ways to create a new classroom.

    For example, one day my class was reading the history book and someone commented as we were getting ready how boring so I asked them if they would like to divide into 4 groups, become an expert on one of four sections in the chapter and teach the rest of the class what they learned.

    They did that by creating a podcast. The best part was that it was such an enriching experience for us all. They had to write a script and use a time-line to create their recordings. This incorporated writing, reading, analyzing information from tables, charts and maps,use of a software that could create a slideshow.

    I have ideas. If I can be of any assistance with ideas please let me know. I love integration. It is the life source of good teaching from my perspective. Before our class is over I will send out the directions I wrote for how to make an audio or video podcast. I have instructions for both Mac and PC.

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