Hello Michigan Mame conference!
I am wrapping up my breakout session for the morning and I have found some wonderful resources for you to explore. Even if you can't make the session the links will be with my other digital handouts on my site at http://www.techteachers.com/conferences/links.htm
Send me a comment about your thoughts after the session!
meg
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Monday, November 07, 2005
The Shifted Librarian Does it Again
Jenny's blog was the first one I started reading, it it remains my favorite. Jenny's blog is filled with ways public libraries can better serve the changing patrons. Her message is also so appropriate for schools. Today as I was reading Jenny's blog as I prepared for the Michigan MAME conference, she taught me something new! I am sure it has been there all along, but today I clicked on Jenny's Blogroll and I can now see all the feeds Jenny subscribes to. What a great way to get started using RSS feeds and connecting to new blogs with the direction from an expert.
There are many blogs out there that I have no interest in reading, but Jenny is a great filter of information for me. As someone said in a session last week, a blog can be thought of as the Cliff Notes from various sources. Check out what Jenny is reading and writing about!
There are many blogs out there that I have no interest in reading, but Jenny is a great filter of information for me. As someone said in a session last week, a blog can be thought of as the Cliff Notes from various sources. Check out what Jenny is reading and writing about!
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Everything Bad is Good For You
I just completed this page turner, and wow is what I have to say. This book is a must read written by Steven Johnson. I am now rereading and focusing on how these ideas apply to change in education. This information on blogging caught me eye.
“more than eight million Americans report they have a weblog or online diary. The wonderful blog-tracking service Technorati reports that roughly 275,000 blog entries are published in the average day – a tiny fraction of them published by professional writers.” Page 119
“ Ater only two years of media hype, the number of active bloggers in the United States alone has reached the size of prime time network television” Page 119
“There’s plenty of arm chair journalism out there, of course, but the great bulk of personal publishing is just that, personal: the online diary is the dominant discourse mode in the blogoshere.” Page 119
“There is no denying the content of your average online diary can be juvenile. These diaries, in fact, were created by juveniles. But thirty years ago those juveniles weren’t writing novels or composing sonnets in there spare time; the were watching Laverne and Shirley. Better to have minds actively composing the soap operas of their lives than zoning out in front of someone else’s.” page 120
Now on to gaming!
“more than eight million Americans report they have a weblog or online diary. The wonderful blog-tracking service Technorati reports that roughly 275,000 blog entries are published in the average day – a tiny fraction of them published by professional writers.” Page 119
“ Ater only two years of media hype, the number of active bloggers in the United States alone has reached the size of prime time network television” Page 119
“There’s plenty of arm chair journalism out there, of course, but the great bulk of personal publishing is just that, personal: the online diary is the dominant discourse mode in the blogoshere.” Page 119
“There is no denying the content of your average online diary can be juvenile. These diaries, in fact, were created by juveniles. But thirty years ago those juveniles weren’t writing novels or composing sonnets in there spare time; the were watching Laverne and Shirley. Better to have minds actively composing the soap operas of their lives than zoning out in front of someone else’s.” page 120
Now on to gaming!
Back to Blogging
Sorry all that have dropped by to visit, I have been engaged in a number of other activities and now I will try and stay on track. I have been writing, and researching extensively about the power of using images and multimedia in the classroom. I also have been busy volunteering and driving my short guys all over the county!
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Blogging Before Breakfast!
Hi all at MACUL!
Hope you enjoyed the blogging session, send me a comment or a link to your blog. I would love to hear from you!
meg
Hope you enjoyed the blogging session, send me a comment or a link to your blog. I would love to hear from you!
meg
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Podcasting in Education
Very interesting research I am doing on Podcasting. My researching slowed a bit when my husband joined the iPod craze and started using "my iPod", I am having great difficulty sharing! As I read in the Sunday Trib about the millions of iPods shipped this Christmas, I was thinking about the power or Podcasting to reach students and teachers in our schools. No more ignored morning announcements, subscribe to the feeds of information YOU need. I see a staff feed, sport feed, administrator feed, you name it!
I will continue to research and report back!
meg
I will continue to research and report back!
meg
Monday, January 03, 2005
Happy New Year!
Hello all!
Finally calm has again settled at home after the holidays. I am back at the computer and back to research about Blogging. In an interesting twist I began some research about Podcasting and I am very intrigued. I know I am sounding like a geek (yet again!) but in simple terms a podcast is a recorded audio file posted to a blog that can play on your iPod or MP3 device! I listened to my first podcast and I see huge potential for our students, I must figure out a way to make this work!
Podcasting is a very new term, and I am up to my neck in research, but I am really interested in how the audio files can help the struggling learner. I will try and keep my blog updated as I collect my research. More as I continue!
Finally calm has again settled at home after the holidays. I am back at the computer and back to research about Blogging. In an interesting twist I began some research about Podcasting and I am very intrigued. I know I am sounding like a geek (yet again!) but in simple terms a podcast is a recorded audio file posted to a blog that can play on your iPod or MP3 device! I listened to my first podcast and I see huge potential for our students, I must figure out a way to make this work!
Podcasting is a very new term, and I am up to my neck in research, but I am really interested in how the audio files can help the struggling learner. I will try and keep my blog updated as I collect my research. More as I continue!
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