Web Site Review
Educational Weblogs
Building a Greater Understanding…By Michael Lackner
http://www.mustangblog.typepad.com/
At this site, I found out that “Blog” is actually defined in Merriam Websters dictionary. Blog: no un [short for weblog]: a Web site that contains an online personnal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.
NECC 2005 “Sparking a Revolution in Learning” by Michael Lackner
He welcomes people to his web site as an educational weblog resource page. He has links and resources that are very helpful plus a Power Point presentation for educators.
I opened his weblog handout which was an excellent slide show site to share with staff in training them about purposes, use, and how to make a blog. At the bottom of this site all the windows are shown for signing into a Blog site.
Many other definitions were given for Weblog by different individuals other than the dictionary definition. There were also other new Weblog terms that I was not familiar with that had definitions given as well.
Many links were given to other Blog articles, to how a blog is made, and to how to perform a blog poll.
Eight detailed examples are given for Weblog use. A few of these I list are as a school management system, for portfolio’s (art or student), to collaborate, as electronic filing cabinet with links, and to enhance literacy.
Ten different suggestions were made for the different types of blogs available. A few examples are a personal blog, the collaborative blog, to the political blog.
I recommend this for your colleagues who may want to learn how to blog.
Ida M. Rounds
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Developing a Homepage for Your Classroom
Chapter 12
Teaching with the Internet K-12 –
New Literacies for New Times
Leu, Leu, and Coiro
Just as I liked the phrase “Instead of being a sage on the stage, a teacher is now a scribe on the side”, the phrase “four-for” has special meaning when developing a homepage.
These four ideas could even be listed on the homepage as an educational incentive to use it. Children can publish their work on it for others to read. A safe link to Internet locations can be set up. It helps other people who visit the site. For students having computers, it forges the band between home and school. The homepage is a display that shows teachers are being professional while using new modern literacies to guide students’ education.
The textbook said, “A good homepage is a gold mine for us all.” Other great features on the homepage could be a newsletter, Weblogs or daily classroom events, blogs, digital class photos, bulletin board of assignments due, links to the Web for class units taught, word of the day, the daily schedule, parent corner, and a photo tour of the classroom.
As Leu, Leu, and Coiro state using a home page can enhance the five major functions of new literacies which are identifying questions, navigating the Internet, evaluating information, and synthesizing information found to answer the questions and to communicate.
I found favorable the Internet Workshop set up by Tama Forth for her class. It was an explicit search in safe search engines and was purposeful. Students were able to locate and write URL’s and the title of the best sites for early Missions of California on a desktop location.
What I found helpful was the suggestion of the teacher’s E-mail address on the home page to foster communications. This is one item that I could add to my PBWiki site.
This was a very helpful Chapter to read and followed along with additional information to enhance what was in Xu’s book which was managing Popular Culture Text.
Ida M. Rounds
Teaching with the Internet K-12 –
New Literacies for New Times
Leu, Leu, and Coiro
Just as I liked the phrase “Instead of being a sage on the stage, a teacher is now a scribe on the side”, the phrase “four-for” has special meaning when developing a homepage.
These four ideas could even be listed on the homepage as an educational incentive to use it. Children can publish their work on it for others to read. A safe link to Internet locations can be set up. It helps other people who visit the site. For students having computers, it forges the band between home and school. The homepage is a display that shows teachers are being professional while using new modern literacies to guide students’ education.
The textbook said, “A good homepage is a gold mine for us all.” Other great features on the homepage could be a newsletter, Weblogs or daily classroom events, blogs, digital class photos, bulletin board of assignments due, links to the Web for class units taught, word of the day, the daily schedule, parent corner, and a photo tour of the classroom.
As Leu, Leu, and Coiro state using a home page can enhance the five major functions of new literacies which are identifying questions, navigating the Internet, evaluating information, and synthesizing information found to answer the questions and to communicate.
I found favorable the Internet Workshop set up by Tama Forth for her class. It was an explicit search in safe search engines and was purposeful. Students were able to locate and write URL’s and the title of the best sites for early Missions of California on a desktop location.
What I found helpful was the suggestion of the teacher’s E-mail address on the home page to foster communications. This is one item that I could add to my PBWiki site.
This was a very helpful Chapter to read and followed along with additional information to enhance what was in Xu’s book which was managing Popular Culture Text.
Ida M. Rounds
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Managing an Integration of Popular Culture Texts
Chapter 7
Trading Cards to Comic Strips
Xu, Perkins, & Zunich
My experience in managing the integration of popular culture texts is with the PBWiki Site.
Many thoughts arose as I planned the PBWiki page for the classroom teacher to make available interesting Web Sites. Some ideas were how to introduce the system to the principal and the others teachers that I work with. PBWiki was very helpful and explained how links could be set up and how these people could be added to the site so they could edit it, too. These links were set up before spring break so I have not received feedback from these individuals yet. I feel that I need this information before it is officially presented to the children.
I have tested the waters by sending home a couple of Web Sites for four parents to view with their children. One mother was very happy at the ruler site. Another mother questioned the publishing site but was perfectly happy with a book site.
The teacher and I need to decide how to introduce the site to the children and the parents. I liked the Xu’s idea of sending home a letter to the parents. He feels that the ideal time would be at the beginning of the school year instead of what I am doing which is two months before school is out.
PBWiki continues with their training updates and suggestions so that I can continue to make improvements to the site. One they suggested was a tutorial on the first page of PBWiki to help the students learn how to use the site.
This chapter was helpful at this particular time because it answered some questions that I had.
Trading Cards to Comic Strips
Xu, Perkins, & Zunich
My experience in managing the integration of popular culture texts is with the PBWiki Site.
Many thoughts arose as I planned the PBWiki page for the classroom teacher to make available interesting Web Sites. Some ideas were how to introduce the system to the principal and the others teachers that I work with. PBWiki was very helpful and explained how links could be set up and how these people could be added to the site so they could edit it, too. These links were set up before spring break so I have not received feedback from these individuals yet. I feel that I need this information before it is officially presented to the children.
I have tested the waters by sending home a couple of Web Sites for four parents to view with their children. One mother was very happy at the ruler site. Another mother questioned the publishing site but was perfectly happy with a book site.
The teacher and I need to decide how to introduce the site to the children and the parents. I liked the Xu’s idea of sending home a letter to the parents. He feels that the ideal time would be at the beginning of the school year instead of what I am doing which is two months before school is out.
PBWiki continues with their training updates and suggestions so that I can continue to make improvements to the site. One they suggested was a tutorial on the first page of PBWiki to help the students learn how to use the site.
This chapter was helpful at this particular time because it answered some questions that I had.
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