We’re getting down to crunch time. The big prizes will be announced next week, but for now, intrinsic motivation will have to do! For today’s challenge, you’ll need to create your own blog, using the site Posterous.com. Now, before you click back to the Cartoon Network site just yet, hear me out for a second. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Blogging'
BISD 12 Second Tech Challenge #11!
April 17, 2009 · 19 Comments · 21st Century Skills, BISD 12 Second Tech Challenge, Blogging, Educational technology
Tags: 12seconds.tv·BISD·blog·Blogging·education·Posterous·tech challenge·tools·web 2.0
Blogging, Revisited
March 28, 2009 · 9 Comments · 21st Century Skills, Blogging, Educational technology, Walden University, Web Tools
Why We Need to Be Blogging First of all, I’ll admit the obvious–I am biased. Blogging has become something that I cannot imagine doing without. It has given me a creative outlet, challenged me to test the validity of my ideas and educational beliefs, and expanded my network of peers. It has met and exceeded [...]
Blog Via Email with Posterous
February 9, 2009 · No Comments · Blogging, Educational technology, Web Tools
When I first read about the blogging site Posterous, I will admit that I was not overly excited. The site allows users to create blog posts by simply sending email messages to post@posterous.com (Try it–the site will automatically create a page for you with your first email.). Certainly easy enough, but not particularly exciting. After [...]
Students Talk About Blogging
July 4, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Educational technology, implementation, Web Tools
I finally was successful at uploading a video of some interviews I conducted this spring with students who published their writing to a class blog this year. In just six months, the students’ blog had over 1,000 visitors from six continents! What an effective way to motivate our students to write! The blog also includes [...]
Tags: blog·Blogging·education·internet·students·tools·web2.0·writing
Blogging for Work: How and Why
June 5, 2008 · No Comments · 21st Century Skills, Blogging, Web Tools
Here is a short, well-crafted slideshow created by Sacha Chua, an enterprise 2.0 specialist with IBM. It lists some very practical steps to blogging effectively for work, including doing lots of reading, sharing knowledge through writing, and tooting one’s own horn, so to speak, by sharing successes and accomplishments. Great focus on how blogs can [...]
New: Threaded Comments!
January 16, 2009 · No Comments · Blogging
I just activated a new plugin that will better facilitate our conversations by creating threaded comments. This means you can reply to comments left by other users, and they will list them underneath the original replies. Hopefully, this will be yet another way to make our conversations more engaging and powerful. Thanks to the folks [...]
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Tags: blog·Blogging·threaded_comments·tools