Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Meridian Middle School computer Technologies Journal in its current issue asks this question:
Do the teaching-centered blogs of middle grades educators support
reflective practice? That’s the research question examined in this article, Reflection and the Middle School Blogger: Do Blogs Support Reflective Practices?
They examined 12 randomly selected blogs from a pool of 38 teacher-created, teaching-centered blogs. […]

Tomorrow I have the opportunity to work with a group of school counselors. I plan to use James Farmer’s great site to introduce them to the joys of blogging. I have examples here and here of counselor blogs from my former school. Anybody know of any others?

Now, how could I have missed this wonderful blog created by a superintendent? I’m always on the lookout for good examples and I love this one! Her name is Dr. Joni Samples. She is superintendent of Glenn County in California. The name of her blog is EdSuccess. Her tagline reads “Stories of […]

In my workshop last week I had referred to the AHS blogging policy. It
is an excellent example. One feature of it that I really liked was the section
on “Successful bloggers”. This approach is so much more uplifting than a list
of “do not’s.” Approaching blogging from the angle of what bloggers should
aspire to achieve. It doesn’t […]

I received a nice email from Elizabeth Chikamatsu who has started a children’s blog about life in Japan. It’s called here and there Japan. She asked for suggestions on how to let teachers know about it. I am posting it here. If you have other suggestions for her please post them here in a comment.
This […]

I’ve got to add this to my wiki for “Relevant Posts”. Actually Clarence has many that I consider relevant but this particular one, “Authentic Voices“, truly resonates with me. He blogs about how his students’ blogging is “real”. It is authentic. He says he sometimes cringes about what the kids in his class have written. […]

Don’t ban the blog is an article published by Michael Shaw on the UK TES (The Times Educational Supplement). It speaks to the issue of blogs and chatrooms being banned in schools. It quotes research:
But a study by Futurelab, the educational software research centre in Bristol, urged teachers to explore the learning potential of chatrooms […]

I love those moments in time when we get to meet face-to-face with others in our Bloglines accounts. Seeing Will again today was really special and it was fun watching the teachers enjoy his presentation. He always does a good job! Now he’s off to Florida for the EduComm Conference. I’m with him in hoping […]

A continuation of the workshop by Will from PJNet.
Now Will is explaining RSS. These teachers are asking good questions. I am really impressed with the help that has been built-in for them. After this week long workshop they each have 10 hours on demand training/support. Incredible!

I just arrived at Kennesaw University and Will is doing a great job. Let me point you to a synopsis from PJNet. Wow! Some really good writing here.
I wish I had gotten here a bit earlier for this….
He just dialed into George Siemens who blogs at Connectivism Blog on Skype. Turns out Siemens was sitting […]

The Wikipedia definition of pedagogy is the art or science of teaching. Pedagogy is also sometimes referred to as the correct use of teaching strategies. I also found these definitions of pedagogy on the web. There are several at this link.
This one resonates with me:

The strategies, techniques, and approaches that teachers can use to […]

I love seeing new blogs like this join the educational blogging community. At a conference this educator encountered David Warlick and Tim Tyson. They motivated him to begin One Teacher’s Quest. Take a moment and welcome him to the community….

Zachary’s weblog has so many outstanding posts. He is a fifth grader from J.H. House who will be moving on to middle school next year. He is one of the student bloggers in Hillary’s Blog Write group. I believe Zach will continue blogging. I sure hope he does. He has quite a voice. His mom, […]