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Teaching Blogging - TTT38 01.31.07

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The night before she started her Spring Semester classes at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in New York City, Susan Ettenheim participated in a dialogue via skype with teachers from four different Writing Projects: Paul Allison (NYC), Matt Makowetski (South Coast, CA), Bill O’Neal (Trenton, NJ), and Bob LeVin (Area 3 in CA). This is a podcast of that conversation. Along with Chris Sloan in Salt Lake City (Utah WP), the six of us are beginning a complex, exciting collaboration with our students in an elgg, YouthVoices.net. Listen as we plan, take a look at Susan’s introduction to her students, and consider joining us. You might leave a comment here, then go over to YouthVoices and see what all the excitement is about.

Here’s Susan’s introduction to her students:

Can, or should, the newest technologies change how we see and understand the world around us?

How and why will these new technologies change the way we live our lives?

In this class you will be working online with other high school students from New York City, New Jersey, Utah, Virginia, and California. What are your expectations about people who live in different places? How might your expectations change once you get to know them? Do you share the same interests? Do teens all share similar concerns?

The topics for the course are:

• Intellectual Property – what’s ok to copy and use online and why?

• How to use and make the most of free online applications.

• How to set up your browsers for maximum use and find and keep track of information that interests you.

• How to use online and 3D maps for sharing stories.

• How to write and respond to people in a professional setting for classes online.

• How to use free online image editing programs to enhance your online presence.

• How can animation add to your online storytelling?

• How does a wiki work and why would you use it?

• Online, what is private and what is public? How do you find information to answer your questions?

• What is credible information? What is unreliable information?

• How does audio and video add to your online storytelling?

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Are we asking for too much? TTT39 02.07.07

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Download Teachers Teaching Teachers 39Conversations among teachers often lead to better clarity, deeper understanding, and renewal, and you’ll find some of these qualities in this podcast. Sometimes teacher talk can lead to action. Such was the case this Wednesday when Lee Barbar and Paul Allison invited their colleagues Madeline Brownstone and Sharon Peters to come [...]

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Do we love Google? TTT40 02.14.07

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Download Teachers Teaching Teachers 40 02.14.07Do you use Google Apps yourself or with your students?
Is it love or a marriage of convenience?
Find out by listening to this podcast.
St. Valentine’s Day, 2007 was wintry white in New York City, and today Google is coming to town (”coordinated by WestEd“).
Last night on Teachers Teaching Teachers we did [...]

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Unimpressed with Google edu suite

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At this point, I’m as unimpressed with Google edu suite as I am with anything else that is free. You get what you pay for. For the teachers and students at myschool and writing project, I want to get, and am willing to pay for, web based apps that have security, reliability, speed, basic posting, [...]

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Flickr in the classroom?!?! TTT_41

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Download Teachers Teaching Teachers_41show notes from February 21, 2007
Ken Stein, Alex Ragone, Susan Ettenheim, Lee Baber
Ken and Alex lead a discussion about Flickr in the classroom, digital photography and developing conversation around images.
Some links discussed in the show:
International Center for Photography
Curriculum Guide
http://www.icp.org/site/?c=dnJGKJNsFqG&b=2017177
http://www.tuftsobserver.org/opinion/20070202/same_world_new_lens.ht
Tufts Observer
Same World, New Lens
by Erin Baldassari
Eugene Richards
“Richards explained this simple truth in a [...]

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Blogging is easy. Managing blogs for students? Well, that’s something else.

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See the Google Notebook for this weeks Webcast.
A couple of weeks ago, Lynne Culp, Tech Liaison for the UCLA Writing Project, asked us to have a webcast about the current state of classroom blogs. Lynne said that the fellows in her Writing Project need to hear how folks are actually managing blogs and setting [...]

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