Technology Adventures: 06/01/2006

Thursday, June 22, 2006

The Future of Social Networking

Fred Stutzman gives an overview of the next generation of online communities.

http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2006/06/social-networking-five-sites-you-need.html

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Me Publishing via Julz

My friend and mentor, Julz, is an avid blogger and member of this blog. Here is an informative posting describing Me Publishing that Julz has on her blog....

http://julztechtalk.blogspot.com/2006/05/me-publishing.html

Monday, June 19, 2006

Uses of Blogs vs. Blogging

So to help get the ideas flowing, I would like to share something from Will Richardson's book, p. 32. (for info see www.weblogg-ed.com).

What he presents is a list of uses of blogs and then kind of rates them in terms of how much "blogging" is really involved.

Basically the continuum he describes extends from posting assignments, through posting journals and links, on to annotated links, and links with analysis. Annotating links with analysis would be, according to Richardson, the simplest form of blogging.

From then on the levels of blogging complexify as the synthesis of metacognitive writing and links to a meaningful audience develop.

Richardson describes complex blogging as, "extended anlaysis and synthesis over a longer period of time that builds on previous posts, links, and comments."

Which brings me to my latest blogging realization, in order to understand blogging I need to immerse myself in complex blogging. Well, we've been doing this in many ways through our EDLT cohort. This is just the continuation of our journey -only into the blogosphere we go.

Welcome EDLT Cohort Friends

I just wanted to welcome my colleagues from the EDLT Cohort. I encourage you all to add your contributions.

Maya Eagleton

Please allow me to introduce you to a researcher that I have found who has done some work with hypertext and literacy. Her name is Maya Eagleton. Please visit her website and read one of her publications:

http://earthvision.asu.edu/~maya/

I recommend her study about 'The benefits and challenges of a student-designed school website.'

From Our 'Skateboarding' Conversation

As we discussed uses of the Internet in education, I mentioned creating wikis and blogs as way of creating an online reading log for your personal use.

I'm using both of these and finding interesting features of each. Both are free and can be public, private, collaborative, individual, etc.

Using either one is great...

http://www.near-time.com

http://www.21publish.com

Also, take a look at these:

http://del.icio.us
Delicious is a fascinating social bookmark sharing and tagging tool. I highly recommend you get in and import your bookmarks!!

http://www.furl.net/ Haven't used Furl, but it's a similar tool.

http://www.flickr.com/ This is a fascinating photo sharing tool... You HAVE to go look!

So what did you find? Let's talk about it here in Technology Adventures.

Saturday, June 17, 2006

A Teacher's Blog

I learned about this blog in Will Richardson's book Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts: and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms.

It's a teacher's blog of the experience using blogs with students... very cool.

http://adifference.blogspot.com/ (The teacher's name is Darren Kuropatwa).

Friday, June 16, 2006

Sweet Potato Paradigms

Wouldn't it be nice if we could have the security of the closed paradigm with the democracy of the open information paradigm? It'd almost be as good as sweet potato fries with ranch. Mhmm, ranch. (Fries from The High Desert Brewery.)

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

My Super Cool Rollyo

So what is this? This is my super cool new rollyo- I learned about it on the RETAzens Near Time environment. Basically this is a personalized search engine. Check the drop down menu to see some of the rolls I have included. You should definitely try this out on your own!!