[CALIBK12] Blog Advice

[Connie Williams]

If you use wikispaces educator's wiki [free], you have three choices  
on how to present it: public - anyone can post, private/public - you  
give them the password and and private where you invite them via  
email and only they can see it.
The advantage I see to a wiki is that each student could have his/her  
own page and it's separated from the others - so it is just a page,  
not a whole blog.... no big deal, but might be easier for them to use  
and comment on more wiki pages than they might with a blog.


I've found that if you lay down the posting rules and really enforce  
the notion to them that anyone can see their remarks, they rise to  
the occasion and post well.

just a thought!
Connie Williams



Connie Williams
Teacher Librarian
National Board Certified
Kenilworth Jr High
Petaluma, CA

chwms at mac.com



On Feb 4, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Doug Achterman wrote:

Sarah,



I’m with Jackie on the alternatives you provided, but there is one  
other. If moderating the blog is an issue or concern, you can keep  
everything on your own blog, have students e-mail the assignments to  
you, then you post a separate entry for each student.



Then everything is on one site, all under your moderation…



Keep me posted. Sounds like a great venture!



Doug Achterman

Library Media Teacher

San Benito High School

1220 Monterey St.

Hollister, CA  95023

(831)637-5831 ext. 181

dachterman at sbhsd.k12.ca.us

http://www.sbhsd.k12.ca.us/sbhslib/library.htm

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From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [mailto:calibk12- 
bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of SIMINITUS, JACQUELYN E (ATTPB)
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 1:43 PM
To: Daydream Queen; CALIBk12
Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] Blog Advice



Sarah,

I vote for #1.  That is the model we use for the School Library  
Learning 2.0 course.  You'd have control over your main blog and  
links to each of your student blogs.  The list of student blogs links  
could be maintained on your bloglines account (just as I keep track  
of SLL2.0 participants) and bloglines would highlight which students  
blogs were updated.



You could have the 10 short assignment topics listed on your blog,  
with links to posts with your more detailed assignment instructions.   
(10 assignments rather than the 23 Things of SLL2.0)



Best wishes.

- Jackie

CSLA 2.0 Team project manager



Jackie Siminitus, MLS
E-RATE Specialist and Library Advocate, BCS, AT&T California
415-644-7112 : jacquelyn.siminitus at att.com
AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer, www.kn.att.com
AT&T Library Advocate website, www.kn.att.com/support/jackie
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Specializing in E-RATE and network applications for schools and  
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From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [mailto:calibk12- 
bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Daydream Queen
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:02 PM
To: CALIBk12
Subject: [CALIBK12] Blog Advice

I'm experimenting with using a blog with a class. I'm using Blogger.  
The object is to have students post 10 short assignments and for  
others to post comments on these assignments. I'm exploring what  
would be the easiest way to approach this. What has been your  
experience?



Options:



1. Teacher set up main blog, students create their own blogs and  
teacher adds these blogs as links to the main page so students can  
access other students' blogs and comment on them. Students would post  
assignments to their own blogs.



2. Teacher set up main blog and adds students as authors. (So far in  
experimenting, it seems that posts cannot be moderated, only  
comments) so unless you know otherwise this may not work if teacher  
needs moderation of student posts. If it can work then students can  
add posts and also comment on posts on teacher blog.



3. A Wiki. Teacher creates a wiki and students can add content and  
post comments I suppose. Is ther a moderation feature to this or just  
an email the teacher would get that there has been something aded to  
the wiki. I admit I have yet to create one so I will play with it today.



I appreciate your advice. I attended Doug Achterman's session on  
using wikis and blogs at CSLA and was impressed!



-- 
Sarah Bosler, Teacher Librarian
Montclair High School
Chaffey Joint Union High School District
http://mohigh.com

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