Education as a Conversation » blog examples http://lttechno.edublogs.org Utilizing the Web for Teaching and Learning Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:26:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Video Blogs http://lttechno.edublogs.org/2006/04/04/video-blogs/ http://lttechno.edublogs.org/2006/04/04/video-blogs/#comments Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:27:41 +0000 Lisa Toulon http://lttechno.edublogs.org/2006/04/04/video-blogs/ On the Illinois Technology Conference for Educators blog, Lucy Gray shared a wonderful Class Blog which contains video posts (vlogging – video blog) – Room 132.  To learn more about vlogging, check out the link in his blog roll called Teacher Vlogging Group.  Thanks for the resource, Lucy.

]]> http://lttechno.edublogs.org/2006/04/04/video-blogs/feed/ 0 Blogs taking a seat in, out of classrooms (Chicago Tribune article) http://lttechno.edublogs.org/2006/03/14/blogs-taking-a-seat-in-out-of-classrooms-chicago-tribune-article/ http://lttechno.edublogs.org/2006/03/14/blogs-taking-a-seat-in-out-of-classrooms-chicago-tribune-article/#comments Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:33:33 +0000 Lisa Toulon http://lttechno.edublogs.org/2006/03/14/blogs-taking-a-seat-in-out-of-classrooms-chicago-tribune-article/ There was an article in the Chicago Tribune yesterday titled Blogs taking a seat in, out of classrooms (free registration required to view article).  They used some of Will Richardson’s favorite words – connecting, communicating, and community.  They also gave a list of educators/bloggers which Will recommends:

http://tim.lauer.name/

http://mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblogging

www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm

http://www.speedofcreativity.org/

I read with interest the views of the technology coordinator from District 211 as my sons go there.  I would love to see the educators in this excellent district take advantage of this tool. 

Two interesting applications were given from other school districts:

First Grade – “There is a scientist and environmental children’s author living on an island near Washington State named Ron Hirschi who sent us a piece of sea creature in a box with clues to help my 1st graders identify what it was,” Newton said. “We blog back and forth with him, and my kids sent him things with clues to see if he could identify them.”

High School – At the high school level, Frances Harris, a librarian at the University Laboratory High School in Urbana, says the blog site at her school allows students to comment and interact with the student newspaper.

I will add these to my educational example page.

]]> http://lttechno.edublogs.org/2006/03/14/blogs-taking-a-seat-in-out-of-classrooms-chicago-tribune-article/feed/ 0 Read, Write, and Blog http://lttechno.edublogs.org/2006/03/07/read-write-and-blog/ http://lttechno.edublogs.org/2006/03/07/read-write-and-blog/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:55:25 +0000 Lisa Toulon http://lttechno.edublogs.org/2006/03/07/read-write-and-blog/ On March 1st, I had the pleasure of spending the day with Susim Munshi and Susan Switzer at their Read, Write, and Blog workshop. They have a wonderful support website using 21publish.com at http://learn2blog.21publish.com/ Excellent blog examples are included under the Blog List drop down menu – see “Learning from Reading Blogs” and “Learning from Participation in Blogs“. Also under the Blog List, are some Case Studies. These are scenerios which will be very familiar to teachers. Questions are listed below each to guide the teacher in utilizing blogs with a more constructivist approach to teaching and learning. We then got the opportunity to explore a free blogging publishing community called 21publish. Individual student blogs can be set up under a main umbrella blog like the North River School Blogs or topics for students to comment on like the Learn2Blog site.

Thanks for a wonderful day Susim and Susan.

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