Week 4
Smooth reading this week that spawned just a couple thoughts.
Chapter 2
Weblogs: Pedagogy and Practice
If your blog is inactive, for let’s say a couple years; is there a blogosphere clean up crew or a way that the blog will eradicate itself? I understand that the Web is vast and accommodating and that inactivity is not an issue—yet. In fact the Richardson (2006) text states that, “…two-thirds of all blogs go for more than two months without being updated.” (p. 20).
I couldn’t help but reflect back on the days when I published a weekly class newsletter and many of the close calls I had with not getting copies made to send out to parents. These experiences, while nerve wrecking, have humbled me especially since the digital environment offers things such as class portals and online filing cabinets.
Chapter 3
Weblogs: Get Started!
After reading this chapter, I began thinking about the path my blog will take after 8823. At first I said I would discontinue it but after reading deeper into the chapter I found that it would be helpfully to have a personal example to share with my students. It is only fair to engage in and experience all of what you are planning to share with your students. Also, I can continue to become more of an expert in this new medium. Will you actively continue your blog after 8823? Why or why not? If so, what direction do you plan on taking it?
Chapter 4
Wikis: Easy Collaboration for All
I found it wonderful that wikis (and weblogs) give students experience in how to truly approach the process of writing—through critically reading. If students can get this at this early stage they are well on their way to honing doctoral level research basics, “…they need to read critically first, if they are to find the areas where information is missing or disorganized.” (p.67).
Reference
Richardson, W. (2006). Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press.
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4 comments:
Hi Lori--You offer a great set of reflections for this week. Also, you make a good note about keeping a blog active and what might be done to eradicate dormant blogs. I suppose this is a difficult problem to solve. Thanks for making contact and I will try to do better with my online status before leaving the house. I suppose those are lessons learned with new modalities for communication.
Hi Lori,
You share a great idea about leaving this blog active once we finish the class in order to use it as an example to share with our students in the future. I believe that in a few years standardized tests will all be online. My school currently gives our benchmark tests online but use the paper pencil version as a backup plan if technology does not go as planned!
Kristy
I'll delete this blog when finished with the class, but have already created one for students at both schools. I just haven't turned it "on" yet due to administrator concerns! All the cyber-safety information I have read indicates that once it is posted on the 'net it is never truly gone- so 500 years from now our blog might still be floating around in cyberspace :)
Hey Lori-
Yes, I wonder about all that old content as well. Somewhere I am sure there is a server, sitting covered in dust, with a battery waiting to run down, holding all the "wonderful" items all of us have created over the years. For me that would be since the late 1980's. Way too much information! Surely someone has the common sense to trash it because I am sure the technology no longer exists to access all that old "stuff".
I think keeping a blog active is going to be a real test of will for me. It is not something that comes easily.
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