[CALIBK12] Blog Advice

Tue Feb 5 07:57:43 PST 2008

This sounds like the best solution yet!

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 <mailto:dachterman at sbhsd.k12.ca.us> 

http://www.sbhsd.k12.ca.us/sbhslib/library.htm
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From: Connie Williams [mailto:chwms at mac.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 10:19 PM
To: Doug Achterman
Cc: SIMINITUS, JACQUELYN E (ATTPB); Daydream Queen; CALIBk12
Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] Blog Advice

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
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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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