An article in Slate by Brian Montopoli, City Wide Web - City "blog maps" enable point-and-click sightseeing, discusses the premise behind blog maps. His example, D.C. Metro Blog Map, a subway map of Washington DC which denotes "blogs" in thevacinity of Metro subway stops.
Might be interesting to so something similar with a school map. By moving the mouse over a school map, student and teacher blogs would pop up... [by way of...Smart Mobs]
We're excited to let everybody know that the hundreds of expert guides who publish topic-specific sites on About.com are now all using Movable Type to manage their sites.
This means they also have RSS feeds too...
Edweblogs: NECC 2003: Closing Comments from Anne Anne Davis posts tonight some final comments on the necc.edweblogs.org blog. It was great to be able to meet Anne and the other folks who attended NECC and were able to get together on Monday night. The great thing about the technology is that it enabled the face to face. Without our weblogs... we would never of had the opportunity to meet.
Edweblogs: NECC 2003: So much to blog, so little time... Mary Ditson, one of the folks blogging NECC, has a great post today of her reactions to the conference and what she has learned so far...
Yesterday I had the chance to attend the ISTE Leadership Symposium. Lots of mucky mucks from DOE, RTechs, Higher Ed, Corporate types, school administrators, and even a few teachers.
...the symposium will encourage participants to establish a shared vision and overcome the barriers to ensure success in achieving global educational goals.
Helped them put some of the work product from the day up on a blog. http://necc.edweblogs.org/leadership.
Now I'm off to the convention center. Wireless all around , so should be able to post some sessions here and also on the weblog we have developed for the conference. Will Richardson will be posting to that site also. Should see him later today and of course at the Edublogger meeting.
Last night I went to the Seattle Mariners game at Safeco
Field. Had a great time. It was my first time in Safeco and was very impressed.
A beautiful facility and it was a very nice night for baseball.
NECC 2003 Onsite Am about to head to the train station to catch my train for Seattle. Will see if I can post some images from the train...
Jon Udell: My conversation with Mr. Safe
Like I said, this is simple stuff, and now there are lots of tools. One guy, to make a point about simplicity, wrote a blogging tool in 30 lines of Perl. So it's not about the format, and it's not about the tools. It's about a new way of communicating, one that's defined by personal publishing and subscribing, and that empowers writers and readers as never before.
Jon Udell explains RSS and some of the political debates about the format. I think the quote above is what resonates with me. Has since I first started publishing on the web from Buckman 9 years ago. It is the power to share the work of myself, and my students, with others. To make connections with people. It's about telling our story... The web and more specifically, weblogging tools, make this process open to just about anyone. As Jon states in his piece, that is what excites people about weblogs…
Edweblogs: NECC 2003: Edublogger Gathering at NECC Just a reminder about the Edublogger Gathering at NECC. While I've seen a few posts refer to this as an Intel event, I want to clarify that this is an event for folks interested in weblogs in educations. While Intel and Clarity-Innovations have provided funds for the event to take place, they both are doing so to facilitate discussion and dialog. It is not a vendor event. We were just lucky enough to have them help with expenses. If anyone has any questions about the event, please feel free to contact me.
Anne Davis points to a great quote by one of her students about the possibilites she sees for the use of weblogs in the classroom.
I particualarry like her comment about PowerPoint...! :-)
I am so excited about learning about blogs and how to use them in my classroom, particularly as I was not very familiar with them before now. Everything we discussed in class today seems universally applicable to most classroom situations. This is very refreshing because most people just say to use PowerPoint to meet county mandates about incorporating technology into the curriculum. As we have already established, I hate PowerPoint. I can't wait to apply ideas such as publishing students' work, communicating with parents, and communicating with other classes by using blogs into my own classroom. This is all very intriguing and I want to learn more.
Hydra
Wouldn't it be great to edit the same document, live, in realtime,
together with everyone in your group?
This collaborative note taking application was used extensively at O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies Conference. It can take advantage of Zero Configuration networking so even without an IP connection, participants can collaborate on note taking. I'll have a copy running on my laptop. If you are at NECC, and use Mac OS X, download a copy and see if you see me. We can trade notes... :-)
While trying a coast to coast audio iChat (with good results), Tim Lauer pointed out Eric Baumgartner's weblog. Eric is a friend of a several of my friends and colleagues... [Tuttle SVC]
NECC 2003 - EdWeblogs.org I've been working on a collaborative weblog for use during the National Education Computing Conference taking place in Seattle next week. In addition to the weblog, there will also be a edublogger gathering. taking place Monday, June 30. Intel and Clarity Innovations have graciously provided funds to pay for a meeting room and for an internet connection to the room. I'm hoping for an environment similar to what I witnessed at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference that took place in April. People coming together, learning from each other, and sharing the good work they are doing.
As Will Richardson mentioned today, the great thing about events such as NECC is that you have an opportunity to connect with people who you admire and to learn from them. That is what I am anticipating to take place Monday night and throughout the conference. If you are in Seattle on Monday, be sure to look us up.
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Eric Baumgartner discusses the Harrsch article and reflects on how he sees weblogs and rss being used in education.
The cool thing about being a maven is that, once you've established your rep and your readership, your readers start sending you content. This is the tipping point for weblogs: the content flow has reached a point where it becomes (relatively speaking) self-sustaining. Look at Barry's humor log. Most of his links are sent to him by his readers. [Designing Learning Technology ]
Joe Luft has posted information about his action research presentation. One of the highlights of my year on leave from Portland Schools was having the opportunity to meet Joe and to spend a day in his classroom.
Yesterday, I presented a preliminary version of my action research study ("Weblogs: Creating Digital Paper for English Language Learners") at the Teachers Network Policy Institute before an audience of teachers, principals, and university professors. The most compelling parts of the presentation were the video clips of one of my students discussing how his weblog changed his attitude towards writing (the importance of a real audience, a sense of ownership of his writing space). For an audience new to weblogs, Pat's digital paper metaphor was quite effective. I received some constructive feedback afterwards along with several inquiries from a few principals... [Brooklyn BloggEd]
Seblogging: Dynamic Webpublishing, CMS and Weblogs in Education : by Sebastian Fiedler Today Sebastian Fiedler points to a Guardian article about the Munich municipal government's move from Microsoft to OpenSource software. The interesting thing here is that we are not only talking about server environments, but desktop software.
This past February I had the opportunity to visit with educators in Munich and Dillingen and it was interesting to hear several of the IT folks I talked with express resentment at the high cost of licensing Microsoft software.
The K-12 Linux Terminal Server Project is one solution that looks very promising for education. Portland has set this up in several middle school labs. The best implementation of this I have seen is Riverdale High School. A diskless workstation with a powerful office suite, web browsing and a graphical desktop environment that is easy to learn.
We hope to have a few 5th grade classrooms set up with this this coming fall.
Have been working on learning a bit more about CSS. Will tweek with this a bit more later today...
'Harry Potter' Fans Wait Online, Fotolog and Sites for List Lovers
Writers of Potter fan fiction - stories that use Ms. Rowling's characters in new or expanded plots - are particularly tense.
Interesting piece from the Technology section of the NY Times about Harry Potter fans using sites such as Fan Fiction to fill the void while they waited for J.K. Rowling to bring out her version...
Also a bit about the use of Fotolog by a couple who are posting photos from an album they found in a junk shop in Brooklyn. The post images and then folks comment and make up stories about the images.
Hundreds more photos remain to be posted, so Natalie's online life will continue to unfold even as the person the site calls Real Natalie remains a mystery.
