|Ed Tech Conference Notes 2007

A bit of history

Mid 1990's internet commonly used for research, purchasing products, email

Late 1990's early 2000's began PUSH - pop ups, spamming - pushing stuff at the user

Now WEB2 - User determines what they want to be kept informed of RSS feeds etc-

Collaboration - interaction between website presenters and viewers - Blogging

New era of media publishing - podcasting

RSS and feed readers,

Net News Wire, Google reader, yahoo mail

EduBlogs

1997 - mostly digital online journals "online chronological collections of personal commentaries and links"

1999 - web logs became known as blogs - exponential growth (100 in 1997; 27 million in 2006)

2001 - Edublogs emerged, by 2004 great focus on "potential of blogging in teaching and learning" (Ferdig and Trammell 2004)

Benefits:

Help students become subject matter experts
Increases student interest and ownership of learning
gives students legitimate chances to participate
Provides opportunities for diverse perspectives, both within and outside of classroom
Promote critical and analytical thinking
Can be powerful promoters of creative, intuitive, and associational thinking
Promote analogical thinking

Means of communication
Instructional resoruce
Collaborative tool
Showcase student projects

Many are filtered (eg Blogger)

Simple web pages anyone can create in a few minutes

Great opportunity for teachers who want to publish agendas, homework, et

Example: hjhcomputers edublog

if desired, allows for limited or full collaboration

Podcasting

No more need for expensive video program to broadcast to school or public

Easy with a mac

Example: Hanes Middle School

Audio or Vidio - Publish to anyone

Mac with Garage Band, iMovie, iTunes

External mic and video camera advisable

Future?

Everyone has all their agendas, homework, etc on their iPod that they bring to school every day like a binder reminder.

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