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Authenticity vs. editing student work: a peaceful middle ground for your class blog

May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · blogging, discoverystreaming, podcasting, presentations

This was an online event with Edublogs Live, that I forgot to preview here. I promise I will list future shows before they happen!

You’ve started your blog(s) with students, and they are writing, when is their work “ready” to publish and share with the world? If you haven’t thought about it yet, you should. Watch as we discuss how to figure out your philosophy about publishing student work, and how to make sure that you are having students show their best work, while still supporting learning.

Points covered included:

  • Considerations, including potential “critics” who may read the blog;
  • Building comfort and fluency in students;
  • Avoiding embarrassing students;
  • Revising and editing comments after they are published;
  • Identify draft vs. final versions of work.

Sue Wyatt (taz teacher) and Jan Smith shared their experiences with student blogs which were very illuminating!

You can see the archive of the Elluminate session here

Links

Other

A note about the writing on this blog…

This blog includes writing from elementary students, and shows work at all stages from first to final drafts
Work with this logo:

has been edited once.

Work with this logo:

is in a final form.

We do this to show the whole writing process, and hope you enjoy seeing how we learn.

the image link is here:
Edited: http://oakridgefourthgrade.edublogs.org/files/2009/05/cooltext421028791.png
Final: http://oakridgefourthgrade.edublogs.org/files/2009/05/cooltext421029122.png

I did both on cooltext: http://cooltext.com/Buttons

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Preview Blogging in Elementary Presentation for CUE 2009

March 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments · blogging, presentations

This is a preview of my Blogging in Elementary Preso for CUE 2009on Thursday March 4, at 2 p.m. PDT

Audio will be available at Blog Talk Radio

7 Things You Should Know About Blogs

2 page handout on blogs

movingforward » home

A hub resource for sharing links and resources for various stakeholders about ed tech

oakridgeedtech » Start of Year Intermediate

Example of a student response on a blog

1 Twister 1998 — Blogmeister

Assignment #18: What Works in Oak Park | Sixth Grade Blog

Landmarks Class Blogmeister

Warlick’s CoLearners | Main / ClassBlogmeisterWiki browse

Sign In to Class Blogmeister – Class Blogmeister

Yahoo Groups: Class Blogmeister Support Community

Edublogs – teacher and student blogs

The Edublogger

The Edublogs Forums

Blogger: Dashboard

EdTech Update: Remove the "next blog" button from Blogger

Weebly – Create a free website and a free blog

21Classes – Free Classroom and Education Blogs – Home

SchoolBlog – About ePals – ePals Global Community

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Preview of CUE Presentation on Technology and SES Tutoring

March 1st, 2009 · No Comments · presentations, web2.0

Here is a preview of my session at CUE 2009:

Using Technology to add engagement and inquiry to SES tutoring

Here are links from the presentation…

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Follow-up to Multi-Media: Beyond Power Point

October 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · presentations

It was wonderful working with all of you at this presentation. I hope you all got some useful ideas from this session that you will be able to use in your classroom.

Some thoughts, and some links:

Slideshare is a great site for posting Power Points. There is even a way to add narration. I would strongly recommend Dean Shareski’s PowerPoint extreme makeover video shown below as a must see.

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Next, when you have students doing these projects, it’s very helpful to have them “story board” to plan their work. There is a curriculum on Film Making in Discovery Streaming from AFI (American Film Institute). You don’t have to read the rest of it (unless you’re thinking about doing film making), but the planning story boards on page 19.

Preview post for session with links

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Follow up to ILC Presentation: Technology for English Language Development

October 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · presentations

I had a fantastic time and if you were a participant, thank you! Here are some extra links and tips:

Get a USB mic for recording.

Larry Ferlazzo’s Website of the Day is an invaluable resource for online activities to do with ELLs

I also contribute to a resource blog called Instructify out of UNC-Chapel Hill that gives lots of great resources.

On copyright and fair use, here is some further reading that could be helpful:

K. Hokanson on Copyright Confusion

Instructify articles on copyright and fair use

If I promised to post something, or you still have questions, leave a comment and I will get it.

Pre-presentation post is here.

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ILC Presentation: Technology for English Language Development

October 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · presentations

I will be doing a presentation at the ILC (Innovative Learning Conference) on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. Here is my outline:

  • Theoretical underpinnings of English Language Development
  • English Language Development Standards
  • Instructional methods and the tools to make it happen
    • Visual and Vocabulary Support
    • Multi-media projects to support writing and oral language development
  • Projects that show how it’s done

My slides:

Technology To Build Language Development In En

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and my links:

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ETLN Presentation

April 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · presentations

Hello! It was a fantastic meeting everyone in the ETLN last night, and a really productive group. Your interest and curiousity kept me on my toes (a good thing).

As promised, here are some links on Diigo. These links include YouTubes and sceencasts showing an AP History teacher who is using Diigo for notetaking homework in his class:

Next here are note taken by Laura MacDonald (thank you Laura)

and here is the video. The quality of the shots are not great, and due to technical problems, it was cut-off a couple times (hence the four different videos. I think I will be working on the video technique going forward, but I thank you for being part of this learning process for me.

http://www.ustream.tv/search/all/ETLN

Finally, once again, here are is the slideshow that was the bones of the presentation. I will be posting the final presentations from my students here in the next few weeks so you can see how this all turned out for me.

I look forward to seeing you all in May!

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Preview of CTAP3 – ETLN Presentation

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments · presentations, web2.0

On Tuesday April 8, 2008 I’ll be doing a presentation for California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) Region 3 at Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE). The meeting of the Educational Technology Leadership Network (ETLN) goes from 4 – 7 p.m. and includes a dinner at 6. My topic will be about using technology to scaffold and structure research projects, and will include some discussion of digital storytelling.

If you can’t make it in person, you can watch it on the web starting at about 4:20 p.m. (PDT)  at: http://edtechtalk.com/live

A preview of sites I’ll look at:

and can be found on Diigo. I hope to see you there!

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