Let's share links to our blogs!

I recently came across a few long-standing blogs that never crossed my path during my Google searches, and I was thinking that a Classroom 2.0 discussion about blog-sharing might be helpful, since we are members of "the social network for educators using collaborative technologies".

If you have a blog you'd like to share, either your own, or one that you'd recommend, post a reply with a link to the blog, the author's name, the focus of the blog, and perhaps a few words about why you find it interesting or useful.

Here are my blogs:

TechPsych
Interactive Multimedia Technology

I have another blog that I use to post my reflections about what I'm learning in my mid-life journey as a computer/tech student:
Technology Supported Human-World Interaction

Update:
I learned about Odiogo here. It is a free service that reads blog posts in real time and converts posts into mp3 podcasts. Here are links to my blog podcast feeds:

TechPsych
Interactive Multimedia Technology
Technology-Supported Human-World Interaction

OCTOBER 23, 2008 UPDATE:
Here is a link to my blog about the events surrounding the current economic "crisis", sharing what I find as I attempt to become better-informed about economics, finance, and the lessons we are learning through living through these interesting, trying times.

Economic Sounds and Sights

Tags: blog, blogging, collaborating, networking, odiogo, sharing

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Permalink Reply by ddeubel on May 19, 2008 at 11:19am: Sorry to be sceptical but here I go...

so typically "modern" that you want a search engine. Education is a "search" and not a "search engine"....... I also won't go along the road of how much ease has eroded public and even private education.....

There are many educators making a difference already. That difference won't come about imo by "better searching" or better anything. It will come about by educators participating in the sharing and openess of their lessons - with students and colleagues wherever.

Education won't come about by a better "google". It is churned ahead by the day to day efforts of teachers that care and that motivate students through resources THEY make and share/edit. Most fundamental to any great educator are two salient features and both don't include a search engine.

1) passion for their subject.
2) teachers making their own materials.

So you want google just to lay it all out there for you? No need to think, make, do ? I say this with all due respect. I have probably more credentials in the copyright/sharing fight and giving open source access to materials than most.

What I'm really saying is that you stop focusing on "needs" and focus on what you can do.

David
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Permalink Reply by Dorit Eilon on May 19, 2008 at 11:32am: Hi ddeubel,
Would appreciate if you could post it on our "Google" discussion "we need your voice"
or directly on our blog
www.cangooglehearus.blogspot.com
do want to comment but this is Lynn's post regarding sharing blogs :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Paul McMahon on May 19, 2008 at 8:59pm: What a good idea!

Check out my blog where I record the often frustrating experience of trying to get teachers in Hong Kong schools onboard with the use of appropriate 21st Century Learning Technologies here:

http://xpatasia.edublogs.org/

Hope you enjoy it.

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Permalink Reply by Camilla Elliott on May 20, 2008 at 2:19am: Hello Lyn
You may be interested in my blog www.edubeacon.com which I use to keep track of Web 2.0 and other ICT learning and literacy. It's an adjunct to my website www.linkingforlearning.com that I've maintained for a number of years to support Australian and other teacher-librarians and educators.

Cheers
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Permalink Reply by Tim Schilling on May 20, 2008 at 6:31am: The blog of the Powell Center for Economic Literacy where I'm employed is titled MV=QP. That's a basic equation in economics linking money, growth and prices. The blog is for all teachers interested in integrating economics and personal finance into their curriculum. It can be found at

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Permalink Reply by Rashmi Kathuria on May 20, 2008 at 9:25am: I am a math teacher.
Here is the list of my cyber houses.
Planet Infinity which is my class blog.
Mathematics Learning for sharing teaching learning strategies in mathematics.
Figures Speak for learning math through pictures.
Platform for Sharing ...Passionate teachers; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Andrew on May 21, 2008 at 6:46am: Dear Friends,

I have merged my Education-themed weblogs. It was a marriage that seemed inevitable. In reality, I was testing the waters with Typepad and Wordpress (self hosted) and Wordpress won. The content on both blogs was similar and was centered around provoking thought about school/teaching practices at this particular point in the evolution of Education.

I will continue this work, though, with a greater intensity and focus as I am no longer "split" by the hypothetical prospect of writing for two audiences.

For those of you who subscribed to Another Brick In The Wall, please change the RSS feed to:
http://educationalparadigms.com/?feed=rss2

And here is the winning blog which will continue to be updated daily. (All posts from Another Brock are now part of this weblog). My personal blogging goal is to put out 1-2 quality posts per day on "education", "education 2.0", "education technology", "teaching" and "learning" among other related topics.

EDUCATIONAL PARADIGMS
http://educationalparadigms.com/

My Music Tech blog will continue as usual and can be found here: My Music Tech

My best as we wind down the school year here in the U.S.-

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Permalink Reply by Matt Christensen on May 21, 2008 at 9:52am: This is a tremendous site! I'll use it often now that I have found it. Please look at my blog for ideas; I teach senior English at Brandon Valley High School in South Dakota, United States. The address: scholarlynx.blogspot.com.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Britt Gow on May 22, 2008 at 1:46am: Thanks for this suggestion Lynn - I am a science and maths teacher at a small rural school in Victoria, Australia. All of our students between year 5 and year 7 have their own blogs, as well as many other students and teachers. Links to them all can be found at our school blog:
Hawkesdale P12...A Global Techno College

My blog, about science teaching and learning, web 2.0 tools and other exciting things we are doing at our school is at Technoscience.

Please come and visit us and leave a comment for our students and teachers - you may even develop a global partnership!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Simon Brown on May 22, 2008 at 2:57am: Lyn, I am most grateful for the OdioGo tip. I embedded it today in my blog, and showed a few friends too.
Thank you. This is the easiest text2speech podcasting tool yet.
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Permalink Reply by Lynn Marentette on May 23, 2008 at 3:42pm: Isn't it a cool feature?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lynn Marentette on May 23, 2008 at 3:41pm: Engaged Learning Revisited: Four Video-clips for Reflection

I revisited one of my previous blog-posts about engaged learning and revamped it. The new post contains four "must-see" video clips that I think would be interesting not only to educators, but for parents and others who are concerned about education, technology, and the future of our world.

A couple of the videos include interesting information visualizations.; ▶ Reply to This

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