Lunchtime Roundtable: Educational Use of Blogs
Lunchtime roundtable discussion on Thursday November 11, 2004 discussing the use of blogs in the classroom. Feel free to post ideas, thoughts and shared resources here...
posted by Nandi @ 2:00 PM
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John Ment talked about some really exciting software during lunch, anyone recall the name?
Bloggin software to check out for your school:
http://www.blogger.com
http://www.movabletype.org/
http://www.google.com/googleblog/
http://wiki.blojsom.com/wiki/display/blojsom/About+blojsom
Great resource for blogs: http://www.blogarama.com/
Happy blogging!
Kerri
Another software package for setting up your own blogging server is Manila. Here's a good link for learning more about it.
http://educational.blogs.com/manila/
Will Richardson, Friday's speaker on the topic of blogs in education, uses Manila at his school. His edu-blogging site is:
http://weblogg-ed.com/
Good discussion at lunch!
-- Verne Becker
John Ment
Riverdale Country School
At lunch I mentioned research done on networked based knowledge creation done bt Scardemalia and Beriter (sp?) at OISE in the '90's.
Their work has led to a commercial product called CSILE for computer supported intentional learning. This is distributed by Learning in Motion.
John Ment
Riverdale:
More on CSILE.
The learning in Motion product is called "Knowledge Forum"
a good link to describe the work is:
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdReformStudies/EdTech/csile.html
It may be that the specific product, Knowledge Forum is too complex for teachers to implement well, and a BLOG will serve the purpose better, but the idea of students labelling their contribution in a conscious way is a powerful one that couldbe included in any blog whose purpose is knowledge construction
arvind s grover, The Hewitt School
agrover at hewittschool.org
There are a lot of great free blogging tools availble. Here are some you may be interested in.
Google's Blogger service is easy to use, and can be configured to store pages on their servers for free or ftp'd to your server. It doesn't have as many features of some other blogs, but make it really easy to upload pictures, you can e-mail straight to the blog, and you can even call on the phone and leave an audio blog posted as an mp3...overally pretty decent. Most important feature is it requires no real server setup on your part.
b2evolution - read their desciption for blog newbies, average bloggers, advanced bloggers, and IT professionals to get an of why you might want to use their software. requires PHP and MySQL on your webserver to run, but the server OS does not matter.
Nucleus - main features list here. allows multiple blogs, multiple authors, a lot of flexibility, large develeopment and support community, many plugins available for free downloads, runs on your own server and requires PHP and MySQL.
pMachine - pMachine offers a limited-feature free version, or the full version is $45 for educational institutions. they also offer an install service where they will install the software on your server for $80. it seems like a pretty feature-rich package.
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