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 Matt Christensen on June 15, 2008 at 8:43am: Is our class blog too "busy," too "unacademic," too anything? I have seniors in high school and I want to generate conversation. Students who are mice in the classroom can be, have been lions on our blog. Truly, I get so much more when they can all speak at once, or on their own schedules. But, despite the blog's success, I'm trying to make it better. Soon, I'll get documents on there (thanks to Gerald's help) and other helpful functions. Please take a look and offer a suggestion: scholarlynx.blogspot.com. (The lynx is our school's mascot; I've use a sort of portmanteau for our address scholarly + lynx; lynx = links...you get the picture.) Thanks a lot for anything you can advise.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gerald Ardito on June 15, 2008 at 8:59am: Matt,

The blog looks amazing.
It will be great to see how the students interact with it, and you, and each other.

Please keep us posted.
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Permalink Reply by Matt Christensen on June 15, 2008 at 10:02pm: Gerald--At your teachingownership blog, I noticed an "On the Media" (The News Tower) bar that I could hear audio with (an NPR story about the new noises in classrooms). How did you do this? I'd like to incorporate something like it, or adopt it, please.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gerald Ardito on June 16, 2008 at 3:03am: Matt,

If you go to the On the Media website and pick a story you want to listen to, you get the option to "Embed HTML." Just copy that code and paste it on whatever web page (blog or whatever) you want to appear, and there it will be.

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Permalink Reply by Lynn Marentette on June 15, 2008 at 9:52am: Matt,

Your blog is great, and I can see how you use visual information to compliment the verbal.

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Permalink Reply by Tania Sheko on June 16, 2008 at 4:17am: This is my very formative blog as part of my participation in a Web 2.0 program. Just experimental posting from a newbie : Brave New World; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lynn Marentette on June 16, 2008 at 6:10pm: Tania,

So you are a librarian? We have some forward looking people working in the regional library system in my area. Have you heard of Matt Gullet?

Matt works at the Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County. He is the director of "emerging technologies". He works with ImaginOn, the library for children and teens, and they have established a space in Second Life - a teen library. They have a "gaming at the library" program, and lots more.

This is a link to one of his blogs - there are lots of links that might interest you:
http://youthtech.wordpress.com/
Here are a couple more relatedlinks.
http://www.infotoday.com/cil2008/day.asp?day=Tuesday#session_E204
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Permalink Reply by Richard Laugesen on June 16, 2008 at 6:07am: So many blogs!

I have my Tiny Rock Blog all about the educational software I release.

Cheers,
Richard

Tiny Rock
Termites - Optimium Seating Plans
Monkey - Productive Groups
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Permalink Reply by Lynn Marentette on June 16, 2008 at 6:17pm: Richard,

Thanks for your links!

Your teacher resources page is great.

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Permalink Reply by Suzanne Montaperto on June 16, 2008 at 12:51pm: Here are a couple for you to check out!

http://nyciblog.com/communities/montaperto/

http://smontaperto.blogspot.com/; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Matt Christensen on June 17, 2008 at 6:31pm: What is "Ning"? Hearing from you would trump searching blindly for a definition/explanation of "Ning". And instead of a wild goose chase for the application of Ning, I hope you can point me in the best direction for an example. Thank you.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lynn Marentette on June 17, 2008 at 10:13pm: About Ning

It is the name of the company behind this social networking platform.

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