- We talked about the idea of transparency - anything you put on the internet willremain there forever.
- A feed puts out posts to your audience (via email)
- Many ways to put up your feed One way - type it in. It is typically your blog url/Feeds/post/default This is your feed URL.
- I have a handout for you.
- Rick would like us to create a link to our blog on the class website. Go to http://digitalwriting.pbworks.com/Student-blogs
- Google bloglines and create an account
- create account
- click on add
- type in blog URL you want to have a feed for
- click on subscribe
- now the blog will show up on the left hand navigation bar.
- Go to your blog. Go to settings. Go to Site Feed. Click on feedburner. Follow instructions from there. Click on the Atom one. If you have already created a feed elsewhere, you DO NOT NEED TO DO THIS STEP!
We need to subscribe to each others posts. I am going to do this on Bloglines.
We also need to go to each others blogs and become followers.
We also have another partner...her name is Ann.
We got another handout - "Chapter 6: Fresh and Forward Thinking: Using Blogs for Educational Purposes"
How can we use digital media (specifically blogs) in your classes?
- use wiki to have collaboration between students - especially good those that may not speak up in class.
- blogs good for teachers to have a personal learning network - give each other ideas and challenge each other in the classroom.
- doing exercises in code switching - between text speak and formal language
- create facebook profiles for characters in novels and have them update and interact with each other.
- have the students post things they learned in a pre-reading activity and post links to where they found the information.
- synchronous chats for book clubs. Then you get a transcript. Students can later reflect on their transcripts. Rick will go over a good sit for this later on.
Inquiry based Instruction
http://inquiry.uiuc.edu - good website for inquiry based instruction
Critical Response Protocol (CRP)
Set of questions you get students to ask about a certain phenomonon. They get used to asking these questions - a thinking routine. One of the questions of often "what do you notice?" or "what do you see in this image?" "What does this remind you of?" "Do you see any connections?" "What meaning are you finding?" "How does it make you feel?" "What questions do you have?"
We looked at an example of CRP - gravestone example(Carolyn Clark).
There are a lot of interesting images you can use on Flickr -when using flickr use creative commons
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)
similar to CRP
Tagmemics
How do you define the neighborhood?
How has your neighborhood changed over time?
How is my neighborhood different from others?
Interviewing
- we got a handout
- develop questions based on prior research
- ask "grand tour" questions bout the "big picture" experience
- ask open ended questions vs yes no questions
- follow up questions
- "pointing" interviews to focus on specifics - have student bring in something with special meaning. Another students ask questions about that object. Then that student summarizes to the class what they learned about that object.
Field Notes: Fieldworking
- Focus - selective perception
- Verbal snapshots - 5-10 details
- descriptive vs. general language
How do we learn? discussion
Break
go to the Ning. Click on the twitter link and join. Follow the class twitter.
AmyLou_12
normal password
gust0257@umn.edu
Social Bookmarking (have 2 handouts for you)
when you find something you like you tag it and then share it with people.
Rick suggests to sign up for one or both of these and play with it.
- Del.icio.us
- Diigo
mypopstudio.com - good website. especially for teen girls.
youth voices - a site that other schools are part of and a place where our students can interact with other students from all over the world.
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