First, take a minute to look at this infographic: I think this is similar to what many people in the edtechosphere have seen. There have been a lot of comments in the past year about the “death of blogging.” While I think this is taking it too far, the fact is true that we...
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With a nod to the ever-brilliant-and-willing-to-share Kim Cofino, here is the rubric I’ve lately begun to use in my classroom for grading student blog posts. This is an experiment in action and depending on how this tool works, it is very likely that it will come under some revision. If anyone has any comments...
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I try to teach the students in my class that blogging is not simply writing done on a computer screen. Blogging is something different. It is a more complex process that involves thinking about formatting and fonts, multimedia components and links. Links at the most fundamental level are what make the web the web....
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5 years ago today, January 29th, 2005 I wrote my first blog post on Remote Access. At the time I remember feeling I was late to blogging. I had been reading blogs since the previous summer when they first crossed my radar and I had taken months to make the decision to start one...
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(This post is a response, a build on, and my thoughts in response to reading this excellent piece of writing by Dean Shareski – I hope you have read what he has to say on this topic.) In the five years I have been blogging in my classroom, I have seen a vast change...
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Helping a new classroom community to grow and take shape in a classroom is different each and every year. Much depends on the variables: the age of your students, their technology skills, your community context and need among others. There are many things to consider. Each community needs to be handled differently, but the...
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