chanced upon this resource website that binds many useful articles and resources on blogging in the classroom 🙂
Georgia school displays iPod ingenuity
Though campuses across the nation have begun transforming iPods into educational tools, few schools have embraced the technology as much as Georgia College & State University, where faculty are using the devices for everything from screening movies to podcasting answers to frequently asked questions.
Some lines from the article as well:
- “The more you free up your classroom for discussion, the more efficient you are,” said Dorothy Leland, the school’s president.
- “Now I can devote my whole three hours to Socratic dialogue.”
- GCSU officials say the school makes sure its iPod lessons supplement classroom work–not replace it.
- “[You] think it will never get the same sense of community living together, but we definitely found that sense of belonging”
PODCAST on IE and Sendmail vulnerabilities
The use of podcast has been further extended for use to discuss about software vulnerabilities (Internet Explorer (IE) and Sendmail). Check out this source if you are interested 🙂
Panelists: Blogs are changing education
At a ceremony to honor excellence in education blogging yesterday, winners of the first-ever eSchool News “Best of the Education Blog” Awards talked about the significance of blogging in education during a panel discussion. All agreed: The impact that blogging is having on teaching and learning is profound.
Some of the quotes which I find useful/interesting as I scan the report:
- “Kids are getting excited and engaged in literacy through blogging, commenting, and sharing ideas”
- There is an excitement that comes from writing for a real, authentic audience instead of a circular file seen only by the teacher
- Our students are tech-savvy, and we need to make sure we take advantage of this
- today’s digital tools make blogging extremely easy, especially when compared with the effort it used to take to upload files online via the File Transfer Protocol or build a web page using Hypertext Markup Language
- Sharing ideas with the world today is “so easy,” Fryer said. “Now, it doesn’t take anything but a web browser to engage in these conversations.
- You shouldn’t ban the use of an instructional tool such as blogs, simply because it might be dangerous if misused; instead, you should teach students about the proper–and safe–use of the tool and then enforce the rules.
The full article goes here.
[source: eSN online]
List of audioblogging resources at once glance
juz came to realise that swee kin has compiled this list of resources for audioblogging which allows quick reference at one glance, great work 🙂