Do You Have A Blog?

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Permalink Reply by Joanna Sanders Bobiash on February 13, 2009 at 6:45pm

Hi Cindy,

I'm new to blogging and I am just starting to build my own blog. http://adventurousedtech.blogspot.com/ There isn't that much to look at yet, but I encourage everyone to check it out. Comments are always appreciated. I look forward to checking out other people's blogs and getting better connected with other teachers using technology in their classrooms.

Permalink Reply by Cindy Martin on February 14, 2009 at 8:10pm

Hi Joanna!
I'm feeling with you on the lack of technology used in the conferences. Where I am at are no technology conferences at all. There may be several half-day sessions in our big pro-d day in March and that's it. I find that frustrating and it makes it difficult to find other teachers who have the same beliefs/passion about using technology in education. BTW really loved the Do You Teach or Do You Educate Youtube video.

Permalink Reply by Neil Stephenson on February 14, 2009 at 12:15pm

I just started blogging a couple of weeks ago. My blog focuses on technology and inquiry-based learning, and centers around year-long, tech-based Canadian History Project called the Cigar Box Project.

Please come check it out: http://thinkinginmind.blogspot.com/

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Cindy Martin on February 14, 2009 at 8:02pm

Neil,
What a wonderful blog! Your student's knowledge of Canadian history was tres impressive. You are using Google Docs with your students - gr. 7. I have 2 grade 6/7 classes that I teach library prep with and I was unable to use Google Docs because my students (including gr 7) were not 13 and so did not meet the Terms of Use. Are all your students 13? If not, your District allows you to use Google Docs anyway?
Cindy

Permalink Reply by Neil Stephenson on February 15, 2009 at 9:32am

Cindy,
Thanks for the response and the encouraging words. A couple years ago our school adopted Google Apps as our school-wide email provider. Google Docs came as part of the package - and so our students can access Google Docs through their email inbox. Google Apps was worked out very well for us.

Permalink Reply by Cindy Martin on February 15, 2009 at 1:12pm

Ah, using Google Apps as a school-wide email provider! We're still in the Dark Ages of locked down everything Web and Web 2.0. Our school server has its own email service. Teacher's abilities to download tools are non-existent. I'm lucky enough to have a young IT Tech who thinks educational gaming such as Quest Atlantis (I'm not using this yet, but really want to) and virtual classrooms such as TappedIn (I am using this) are great ideas and will co-operate with me and allow access to these sites, along with a supportive principal.

Permalink Reply by David Wees on February 14, 2009 at 9:34pm

I've been blogging with my students for the past 4 years, and for two years at the following address:

http://www.rism.ac.th/class/hs/davidw/

The idea is, the students rotate through responsibility to produce a summary for each class, and the other students have to leave a constructive comment on each other's summaries. In two of my higher achieving classes this has produced a feedback loop where the posts just keep getting better and better.

My personal blog, mostly on topics recently related to my Masters in Educational Technology can be found at http://davidwees.com/discuss.

Permalink Reply by Deirdre Bonnycastle on February 15, 2009 at 9:24am

This is such a great idea that I would like you to write it up and submit it to the Active Learning Blog Carnival.

Permalink Reply by Cindy Martin on February 15, 2009 at 1:05pm

What an incredible student blog and what a fantastic way to teach math! That was inspiring. You gave me some great ideas on starting a library blog next year for our school. Thank you, David for posting your blogs on the forum. Are you on Twitter? If so, would love to have you join my PLN. I'm cindyannemartin.
Have you checked out Dan Meyer's blog (dy/dan on edublogs). He is another incredible math teacher. If you haven't been to his blog, it is one you might enjoy.

Permalink Reply by Kevin Amboe on February 27, 2009 at 8:22am

Thanks Cindy,

I have been very remiss in updating my two blogs of late. When I have time (usually when attending a conference), I tend to blog the events here - http://IAmLiterate.blogspot.com

I have fun with photography so I also share photo making at http://makingphotographs.blogspot.com

Kevin

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