June 8th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
Landmarks Class Blogmeister. ‘Perhaps one of the most fascinating tools that has emerged from the Internet cloud in recent years is the Blog. A shortening of the term Web log, the Blog is an online publishing tool that enables people to easily publish their loves, passions, dislikes, peeves, discoveries, and insights.
Blogging is also showing up in schools, where teachers have known for a long time that students develop better communication skills when they are authentically communicating. A number of educators are helping their students developing their writing skills by having them publish their work as blogs, and then invite comments from people in the outside.
There are many freely available tools that facilitate blogging, but none seem especially suited for the classroom. That is the reason for BlogMeister. This online blogging tool is explicitly designed with teachers and students in mind, where the teacher can evaluate, comment on, and finally publish students’ blog articles in a controlled environment.’
David Warlick’s The Landmark Project - Landmarks for Schools. ‘Landmarks for Schools provides links to information building blocks: Web sites, pages, and interactive tools that provide information in the form of a raw material. The information and data that Landmarks… points to can be imported into other information processing tools and used in the meaningful construction of unique and valuable information products, within the context of social studies, science, mathematics, and other disciplines.’
February 7th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
The Academic Blog Portal. ‘Brad DeLong has described the academic blogosphere as a kind of Invisible College - this site is supposed to help make the College a little more visible to itself and its readers. It is a work in progress and will remain that way. It draws on updated information from (a) the Crooked Timber academic blogroll, (b) Cliopatria’s list of history weblogs and (c) Daniel Solove’s Law Professor Blogger Census. With the exception of a few pages (including this one), it is freely modifiable, so that users can themselves add blogs and other forms of content that may be useful to academic bloggers and academics academics more generally.’
Blogs in Education
Chronicle of Higher Education Articles on Academic Blogs
December 18th, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
Learning by Screencast. ‘Learning by Screencast offers you free screencasts for self-learning. A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, often containing audio narration. In other words: when you are watching screencast, then you have virtual teacher, who shows and explains how to use some kind of software or make some kind of screen activity.’
December 17th, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
Here is the winners list of the 2006 Edublog Awards. Congratulations to all!
December 12th, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
The Edublog Awards. Voting closes midnight GMT Saturday 16 December 2006.
List of 2006 Finalists
May 8th, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
Panelists: Blogs are changing education. ‘Blogging, and the easy access to–and exchange of–ideas that it has spawned, is having a “transformative” effect on education, according to the winners of the first-ever eSchool News “Best of the Education Blog” Awards. Sponsored by Discovery Education, the awards are intended to celebrate excellence in education blogging. They come at a time when blogging has exploded in popularity, giving educators and students an unprecedented opportunity for easy self-expression and reflection that anyone can access–and to which anyone can respond.’
“Best of the Education BlogsĀ Awards (PDF)
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