Blog Juice for Educational Technology

I am constantly amazed at how much students learn from the comments they receive on their blogs. The other relevant aspect to this is that the learning is so applicable to the standards we are asked to teach. Today I browsed through the student blogs and reread some comments they received over the […]

The blogicians have been having fun with Google Maps. They each have maps that list all the locations of their commenters. When we finish I plan to make one map documenting the locations of all the students’ commenters. What fun! Plus they can add other media. Hmmm, ideas are humming!
Then today Scott Floyd posted a […]

I came across this video on YouTube which led me to Rebecca Newburn’s blog Information Age Education. It was of interest to me because I use the Think Pair Share activity a lot in the classroom. She extends the activity with Think Pair Share Write and Think Pair Share Blog. Now that really […]

Comparing viewpoints is so interesting, especially when you are trying to teach. Also humor in the classroom helps learning and I love when I get the opportunities to combine the two. This comment from Michael on one of his posts made me remember a previous post from Will. We have an interesting comparison here. Will […]

The bouncing baby bloggers entered the blogosphere with this delightful announcement this past February. To say that have come a long way is an understatement. Remember all you seasoned edubloggers out there, as Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach said in reply to comments on the announcement “it takes a whole blogosphere to raise a digital child.” Sheryl is […]

It is very important that we provide many opportunities for students to talk about what they are learning and the strategies they are using to question and learn. Open dialogue that welcomes the voices of the students in a give and take spirit is what is needed, not just one way conversations spoken mostly by […]

I have had Clarence Fisher’s post on Censorship, Audience, and International Collaboration on my mind ever since he posted it last Thursday. He had some tough decisions to make in his classroom. The dilemma was about a video his kids had created that Clarence said was “Powerful, overtly critical, and possibly in poor taste.” You […]

I still continue to get so many questions about opportunities that blogging can bring into the classroom that I decided to address this once again. The most recent request is in a comment here from Kevin. I think a post might be better than a comment back. First, check the previous posts on this blog: Blogging and Pedagogy Blogging in…

I still continue to get so many questions about opportunities that blogging can bring into the classroom that I decided to address this once again. The most recent request is in a comment here from Kevin. I think a post might be better than a comment back. First, check the previous posts on this blog: Blogging and Pedagogy, Blogging in…

I still continue to get so many questions about opportunities that blogging can bring into the classroom that I decided to address this once again. The most recent request is in a comment here from Kevin. I think a post might be better than a comment back. First, check the previous posts on this blog: Blogging and Pedagogy, Blogging in…

The horrific shooting at Virginia Tech is so tragic and senseless that all else just suspends in time. My heart goes out to the familes and friends who must receive such horrible news. I’ve been following it on Wikipedia and other news agencies. Events like this are just beyond comprehension.

I received an email from Curt Hopkins today about PBwiki and YackPack getting together to offer a widget you can download into your wiki that allows anyone visiting your site to just press a button and talk. I downloaded it and Lani and I tried it out. It was amazing! It is so cool […]

This is not just a cyber problem but it is a society problem. To combat it we need to address it at home, in school and throughout society. It makes me sick at heart to have such incidents occur like the one with Kathy Sierra. My heart goes out to her and I think her […]