Hello Everyone! I hope your day is going swell!
For this week's reading, we had to read Wilber's Chapter 3 and 4 which focuses on Blogs, Podcasts and Digital Stories. As a high internet user, I have come across all three for some time now and each of the three have their own special, unique features that make people love to use them!
Lets start with Blogs since you're reading this on one right now:
As I am sure you are all aware, blogs are basically like an online journal where a person can document his or her thoughts and include pictures, videos, links, and pretty much anything else they feel connects to what they are talking about.
Wilber goes into depth in Chapter three about blogs probably because there is so much you can do with them. Wilber evene goes to the length of listing several links to blogs that range from tech, to English to science, and to education. I took the liberty of searching a few of those blogs
1. kathyschrock.net/blog I went to this one to find out the page had been moved to http://blog.kathyschrock.net/ What drew me to Kathy's blog was her blend of literacy and technology. At first, I was reminded of this course as well as Prod and Util of Instruc Tech and how both courses blend literacy with technology. Kathy;s blogs really focuses on technology and she connects it to teaching. It is a neat blog to check out and reading her post are fun.
2. http://weblogg-ed.com/ I went to this one to read up on technology only to find out that this one has also moved to http://willrichardson.com/ What I liked about this blog is that Will is an actual person who gives his thoughts based on his own experience with his children and his 22 years as a public educator. If you want to read a blog about neat Education stats and thoughts from an experienced teacher, check it out.
Now let's move onto Wikis:
Simply put, wikis are like a main hub where people can meet, collaborate, and discuss. Mostly, wikis focus around a community aspect which is why it makes great use for classrooms because its basically like a classroom online. T.O.'s wiki for this class in a great way to check out websites people are talking about, letting us know who is presenting what and when, and a way to form a little community of our own.
The uses for wikis are pretty much endless because as a teacher, we can link our students to whatever we want to show them and have them discuss it online. Some of the example wikis Wilber provides show how teachers really utilize the wikis and I highly recommend checking some out.
Finally, let's talk about Digital Stories:
Digital stories (DS) is just as the name implies-stories done digitally. These can be done with photos, videos, and other multi media modes in order to convey a story. The idea of DS in a classroom is one that fascinates me and I would like to do a little bit more research on it. I'm sure I could use in some how in the aid of explaining a story for English class or something.
Anyway, that is all for now. Thanks for reding this long blog but I hope you enjoyed it! Keep a watch for my ER (Ed Response) next where i will talk about Podcasts and some neat things about those. If you guys have any thoughts, comments, or opinions, I would love to hear them!
Until next time, take care and remember...
~Add a little Streiff to your life~
-Joey S.
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