Weblogs...why should I care?

Slide 2: Why would anyone want a blog?

Slide 3: “We were creating web pages back in the 90’s!”

Slide 4: What’s different?

Slide 5: Introducing Blogs

Slide 6: What are blo gs?

Slide 7: updated regularly

Slide 8: places content in reverse October September August July June May April March February January

Slide 9: subscribeable c

Slide 10: requires no knowledge of html

Slide 11: one click publishing

Slide 12: Comments

Slide 13: Type s of Blogs

Slide 14: Teenage Angst

Slide 15: Cat Diaries

Slide 16: Photo Blogs

Slide 17: Video Blogs

Slide 18: Online Newsletter

Slide 19: Resource List

Slide 20: Disposable Blogs

Slide 22: Rich Professional Learning

Slide 23: Why Should I care?

Slide 24: Audience

Slide 25: Communication

Slide 27: Comments …the benefit was being able to plug into the mind of a very sharp teenager and connect on a professional level across generational lines. I witnessed the evolution of her thought processes and writing skills as she dealt with feedback. Blogs allow a teacher to literally take their kids out into the world from classrooms anywhere in America. I’d do it again in a heartbeat Scott Higham Pulitzer Prize journalist

Slide 29: Examples

Slide 30: Michaelle Jean

Slide 31: Bob Langert VP McDonalds

Slide 32: Clayton Wilcox Superintendent Tampa, FL

Slide 33: Clarence Fisher Grade 7/8 Snow Lake, MB

Slide 34: Konrad Glogowski Toronto, ON Grade 8

Slide 35: Darren Kuropatwa Winnipeg, MB High School Math

Slide 36: Kathy Cassidy Moose Jaw, SK Grade 1

Slide 37: Alan Stange Principal Central Butte, SK

Slide 38: T h e l a s t w o r d

Slide 40: Make time

Slide 41: Start reading weblogs

Slide 42: Move your offline conversations online

Slide 43: “Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the- students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers. The teacher is no longer merely the-one- who-teaches, but one who is himself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow. In this process, arguments based on “authority” are no longer valid; in order to function, authority must be on the side of freedom, not against it. Here, no one teaches another, nor is anyone self-taught.” Paulo Freire

Slide 44: Learning is Conversation