Blogging Vox Pops
To blog or not to blog? Actually, the questions we put to E-learning Insights listeners were: Do you blog or read other people's blogs? If so, why? If not, why not? The result was a rich cross-section of viewpoints from educators from Perth to Tropical North Queensland and across education sectors. Listeners submitted their responses either via email or by a voice board in our edna Sandpit Groups.
Let us know what you think of this format and keep an eye out on edna's home page for the next Vox Pops invitation.
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The bloggers
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Colleen Hodgins
- Facilitator and coordinator for the Diploma of E-learning, Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE
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Jenni Wright
- A training officer and emotional intelligence consultant.
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John Travers
- A teaching, learning, school administration and technology enthusiast.
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Michael Coghlan
- Michael prefers audio and video to text and his blog provides a feast for the ears and the eyes.
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Allison Miller
- Allison's blog "Connecting in a Connected World" covers a wide range of social networking issues and technologies as they relate to educators.
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Chris Betcher
- Chris' Betchablog includes links to his podcasts and has several YouTube-embedded video tutorials, including one on Twitter.
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Kathryn Greenhill
- Kathryn's Librarians Matter blog includes insights on emerging technologies and social networking, plus multimedia on her various projects.
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Kerrie Smith
- Kerrie's "You are Never Alone" blog is her take on education-related technology and the associated issues.
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Tom Cotton
- Tom's 8109 records his experiences in learning more about how digital technology can support the learning process.
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Penny Coutas
- Penny's live journal is personal, but she is happy to share her student blog with us called "from Surabaya to Melville"
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Kerry Johnson
- KerryJ's Neotenous Tech tracks her experimentations with virtual worlds, digital story telling and mobile technologies - with an occasional detour.
Web sites related to this episode
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2008 edna and me workshop tour
- The 2008 workshops start off in perth at the end of March and will go to every capital city.
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InspirED Video Competition
- Australian Teachers are encouraged to make a short video on how they've used any type of ICT in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning.
Blogging "how to" resources
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- If you want to tell something important to others, this guide will help you. It's a basic outline that will help you build the machinery that runs you...
- How to blog [edna]
- Been thinking about creating a blog for your business or hobby? If you are a budding writer, have a passion for your hobby, are travelling soon and wa...
- How To Write A Successful Blog: Top Ten Tips [edna]
- If you are just starting your blog and would like to have some basic advice on which key rules to follow to be effective, there is a lot of advice to ...
- Conference Proceedings ASCILITE 2005 [edna]
- Includes: Key Notes: When our students can't see us in person, how do we know they catch our enthusiasm for learning?; Better questions?; Community di...
- RollerMache [edna]
- RollerMache, the ABC's new regional children's animation initiative, is looking for one regional school from each state and territory to run a blog in...
- RSS Specifications: Everything You Need to Know About RSS [edna]
- This site is a comprehensive rss reference detailing everything you need to know about RSS. RSS is defined as Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site S...
- Laptopical [edna]
- As more and more schools have begun using laptops as a means to provide students with the kind of anytime, anywhere learning that is needed to revolut...
- One page guides [edna]
- Tim Davies has written a set of one page guides for web 2.0 applications including flickr, social bookmarking, RSS with NetVibes, finding and reading ...
- On your mark, get set, blog! [edna]
- This guide contains a definition of a blog, potential uses for blogs in teaching and learning and explains how to set up a blog. Really Simple Sydicat...
- 25 Tools: An online professional development resource [edna]
- 25 Tools is divided into eight categories: the bare essentials; keep yourself up-to-date; manage your own productivity; set up a blog, website and/or ...
- Video: Blogs in Plain English [edna]
- Released by Common Craft as part of the 'In Plain English' Videos, this 3 minute video is for people who want to learn about blogs. If you're a blogge...
- Ausweb06: Presentations from the Twelfth Australasian World Wide Web Conference [edna]
- The conference was held on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, 1-5 July 2006. Presentations concentrated on research into web standards, search...
- iPods in Education [edna]
- This site includes information on how teachers can use iPods in Education. Including resources on audio, video, podcasting, photography and interactiv...
- Introducing wikis [edna]
- This resource is a one page guide to getting started with wikis explaining what a wiki is, how it works, and a list of steps to adding or modifying en...
- How can children stay safe using blogs? [edna]
- When creating a blog, there are a number of things to remember in order to stay safe.
- Retaining copyrights to increase research impact: online tutorial [edna]
- The tutorial explains how copyright relates to publication agreements for research articles, and how authors can increase the impact of their work by ...
- Augmenting OER resources with client-side tools: a demonstration [edna]
- This demonstration, by Scott Leslie, assists in understanding how to use effectively browser extensions and client-side tools, to customise OER (open ...
- How Educators Are Using Weblogs - Intel Innovation in Education [edna]
- A preview for a full article to be published in late June, this piece takes note of how four educators are using web logs ('blogs') to improve student...
- Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday) [edna]
- A tutorial on using Bloglines - a free web-based news aggregator service.
- Reflecting, writing, and responding: reasons students blog [edna]
- Faculty and students are recognising blogging's learning potential, including the chance to practice writing, reflect on others' thinking, and respond...