edubloggercon

EduBloggercon Gathering--Kannapolis A--(9:15-11:00) Blogging, wikis, social networks - they're all about conversation and learning. This session will be a casual large group conversation about teaching, learning, curriculum, standards, policies, and an emerging new information landscape that holds some risks, but also enormous potentials for education. Come prepared to participate! David Warlick, The Landmark Project, Featured Speaker Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Featured Speaker--Target Audience: Elementary, Middle, High, K-12

BLOGGERCON EXPERIENCE: In a previous conference, David went to a session where the speaker Started out with: Modeling blogging: about conversation and learning: In this session, David asked us in small groups to come up with 3 questions related to: **"web 2.0"-- what it means to us as educators, what is school 2.0?**
 * Any questions?**

generic gmail account for students, get to all tools diposable e-mail accounts….google
 * e-MAIL ADDRESS ISSUES FOR STUDENTS:**

10 minute e-mail Google e-mail will let you create sub accounts Sheryl will create a wiki on this…
 * Gaggle net,** teacher has control for the students, booth here at the conference—there are limitations with the free version
 * e-pals:** now also has a free version**. **


 * What are our best tools and where do we start?**

ON A GOOGLE DOCUMENT: shared by other people, several people add in information..other teachers add information. Great for assessment Have to have an identity on the Web… Voice threading: images to comment on… Kind of like a voicing power point—digital storytelling, dialog going on…
 * Twitter** blogging is the first place you start…
 * Google DOCS is another place to start...**:

WIKI’s as easy to use websites verses for collaboration??, most powerful is to create a collaborative document. A wiki for battle of the books and created a generic login for all the students involved. They ad discussions for it. All the media coordinators have a WIKI account. Put up notes from the meetings, etc.

Discussion threads, a tab for each discussion thread. It is a great start for teachers to use, Wiki is a gateway “drug” for other web 2.0 tools like digital cameras and
 * Twitter**…made no sense to an old dog with new tricks—now she is sold…

Look online-- ISTE…. Wested.org Suugus independent school district in the southwest…look there too
 * Does blogging create better writers? Where's The data to prove that??**

Back to twitter…connections it has –puts you in a connection that is all over the country. Principal: who says e-mail is not making the students be better writers Moodle… Principal who is a reading and writing specialist—more writing does not necessarily make better writing. Peers are commenting and get good reinforcement, not producing results in terms of NC test Blogg environment makes it easier for peer conferencing which is already proven in research… Why aren’t we doing the research? We need to collect it. Boy writers: im’ing—may not be using proper writing… look up Ralp Fletcher—“Boy Writers” "From Chicago"—we have a response--caller came into the site Google—Google scholar—terms you want on research Teaching a profession: teacher as researcher, action research, set up a case student, comparison group, teach it traditional and another teach it on blogging, set up a common assessment and then compare the results. Landmark research; 1989…compared Israel to Califoirnia, and the results of using technology… Writing to communicate, writing stops becoming a writing assignment

Tech day with the principals and tech folks at central office. Hire “David” Create partnerships with admins and schools Caller into the show: Carl Net vibes or page flicks with different conent feeding in…? Page flicks works on RSS, each page has an rss feed Pool up widgets or flicks to pull content in Schools to create content that teachers could pull into their pages, Igoogle uses the same thing that i-flicks creates. Google reader accounts: find and collect blogs that admins are writing about 15 minutes a day to devote to personal learning: Sources of content?? Monthly principal sessions, door prices is one way to get them there Take negatives and turn them into positives, with teachers, communicate with teachers and school boards and admins at central office. School boards are very receptive to this. Education week Dangerously irrelevant google” “castle” Figure out how to subscribe to them like through –i-google Goochland county Virginia -- principals and superintendents blog everyday. Techtieswiki.gmail.com Technologyties.pbwiki.com MS Tizi on there
 * How do we get better technical support from tech admins?**
 * “Leader talk**” is a great blog

Diego: social book marking site, download component to it, highlighting, sticky notes, etc. Browser enhancer…

Ban on litigation against the school systems Rougue coverups Ignorance is bliss sometimes—people really far behind “Building this airplane as we fly it” Blocking vs unblocking… Teach teachers to build relationships between IT staff and Costs to block per student… What are you wanting to do? More interactively than just commenting on a blog: Enrichment group: imbee.com
 * How do we advocate for unblocking these tools and how do you unblock safely and productively?**
 * What’s the best web 2.0 tool for a forum:**

Moodle… Think.com Oracle—sherly Oates “Chatsy” forum program Tappedin.org Nicenet.org Set up account for free—can set up discussion point

Moodle—question posed religion, but it is blocked for just anyone to comment on… Tough question: Freedom of speech question: democracy in motion… We need to teach ourselves the right way to have these conversations. Cooler heads prevail Get in the habit of having these conversations
 * What are suggestions for dealing with ethical/provocative issues in blogging such as evolution and religion?**

See a model classroom where it is being done well Teachers don’t own the learning—the subject is not theirs. We tend to teach the way we were taught…question now to teachers is how are we are learning…teachers are afraid of failing and will go back to the old way, teachers have a hard time dealing with the fact that kids know more about the digital learning. What better way than to model by learning in front of the class? Teachers who learn as much as the students… We all have to do that. We have to try the not tried and true…Teachers feel guilty for learning along with their kids, DON’T—that’s what we HAVE TO CHANGE… SCOS –turning to student centers. SCOS is so loosly structured and people have to relaize that, and you can DO almost anything…and still cover it… Mentors—reverse mentorship: Leadership roles: ??
 * How do we inspire teachers to move from instructional to a facilitating role so students take responsibility ? How do you crack that egg? **


 * What are blogs and what's the rationale for having one?**

http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Blogs