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Blogs, Forums, Wikis
  • Writing and Collaboration Across the Curriculum
    with E-Communications Tools

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MySpace.Com
  • Your students one-stop e-communications source!

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Huh?!!
  • Heres why kids love it
  • It connects people across space - its truly
    international!
  • It connects people across time people can
    access it from anywhere, and do so at all times
    day and night.
  • It provides a forum for participants to celebrate
    who they are, in a place where others can easily
    find and read it.
  • Because of this and other reasons, it is highly
    motivating for students!
  • Needless to say, since its also a place for a
    lot of inappropriate and risky behavior issues,
    DONT USE IT!

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Why should I care? (the lessons of MySpace.com)
  • Across Distance
  • Communication and Collaboration (inter-district,
    inter-state, international)
  • Connect student-student, student-teacher,
    student-stakeholder, student-expert,
    student-tutor
  • Across Time
  • Extending the classroom
  • Providing motivated writing as homework that
    students will actually do!
  • Technology Standards
  • Our responsibility to teach responsible use of
    online tools!
  • Internet Safety
  • Tools they will use in the workplace and in
    higher education
  • ISTE/NETS (http//www.iste.org/nets/)
  • Side benefits for the teacher
  • Archiving
  • Ease of assessment
  • Instant, anywhere access (no papers to drag
    home!)

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Doing What
  • Writing
  • Personal Writing (journaling, diaries)
  • Transactive Writing (presentation, persuasive)
  • Talking
  • Collaborative writing/Peer Conferencing
  • Correspondence
  • project development
  • in short, anywhere writing and communication
    apply

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Where
  • Lab
  • Good news everybody does the same thing
  • Bad news mimics ordinary discourse, ignores best
    practice
  • Classroom Computers
  • Good news modeling best technology practice,
    anytime/anywhere use
  • Bad news Where are the computers?
  • ESS/Library
  • Good news outside of class access
  • Bad news limited time
  • Home
  • Good news Outside of class access
  • Bad news too many students have no outside access

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The Tools - Email
  • In Kentucky, student email access is the standard
    for 4th-12th grade students
  • Best use
  • when treated as a tool in support of other
    activities
  • 1-1 communication
  • Worst use
  • Unmonitored discourse
  • Formats
  • LISTSERV (archives possible)
  • Distribution list (no archives)
  • One-to-many newsletters communications (more
    later)
  • YahooGroups (http//groups.yahoo.com/),
    GoogleGroups (http//groups-beta.google.com/)

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The Tools - Forums
  • Members-only threaded discussion
  • More labor-intensive than email, but much more
    secure
  • Best use
  • Open discourse across time and distance
  • Worst use
  • Writing of large pieces (especially those
    benefiting from word-processing-line formatting)
  • Its viewed by high schoolers as kid stuff

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The Tools - Forums
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The Tools - Blogs
  • Personal journals with interconnection and
    commenting
  • Best use
  • diary-style personal writing with peer and
    teacher comments
  • Collaborative writing, peer review
  • Worst use
  • Chat!

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The Point usage stats
  • 1,200 registered users contributing to over 2,000
    blogs
  • Up to 200 logins per day
  • Up to 150 postings per day
  • Unmeasured public views

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Blog Topic
  • What barriers do you see with your district for
    e-communications with students?

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The Tools - Wikis
  • WIKIs community-generated websites (see
    http//c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors for the
    original, Wikipedia at http//en.wikipedia.org/wik
    i/Wiki for a definition)
  • Group research and writing projects true
    collaborative thinking!
  • Instant and organic web structure development

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The Tools Other Stuff
  • Podcasts (see http//epnweb.org/ for examples)
  • Injects images and other media into blogging
  • Its richer
  • Picture Blogging (http//www.flickr.com)

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Putting It All Together Content
Management/Courseware
  • Combines online discourse with other workflow
    supports, in a user-friendly environment
  • Document sharing
  • Scheduling
  • Resource management
  • Surveying and other interactive content

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Where?
  • The best platforms for you and your students, in
    order of preference
  • Host it yourself with free or inexpensive
    software
  • Forums Snitz
  • Blogs Moveable Type
  • Wikis ???
  • Content Management Moodle, Sharepoint
  • Use/collaborate with other districts resources,
    or education-specific resources
  • Forums Fayette County Forums (http//teach.fcps.n
    et/forum)
  • Blogs Blogmeister (http//classblogmeister.com/),
    The Point (https//edtech.fcps.net/blog/)
  • Wikis http//www.wikispaces.com/
  • Content Management NiceNet (http//www.nicenet.or
    g)

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Whereand other stuff
  • The best platforms for you and your students, in
    order of preference (continued)
  • Use free open sources
  • Forums Too many to mention
  • Blogs Blogger (http//www.blogger.com)
  • Security
  • Make sure you know who folks are (if you are
    inside a safe district-hosted spot, its easy)
  • Require approval, or reduce visibility
  • Dont allow ANY personal information be posted
    publicly!

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Your one-stop for e-communications
  • Jeffrey L. Jones, District Technology Resource
    Teacher
  • jjones_at_fayette.k12.ky.us
  • http//teach.fcps.net/trt15/
  • http//www.emck.net
  • Member EDTECH LISTSERV (moderator), WWWEDU,
    TappedIn, LearningTimes, Blogger, The Point,
    Fayette County Forums, KYTRT, KYTLEAD, KTDTC, and
    several forums on programming and electronic
    music.
  • Almost all the capabilities discussed here are
    available as free downloadable software, for
    hosting on your school or district web servers.
    If you need a recommendation, send me an email
    with your specifications and web server platform.
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