PCY'S BLOG

A new communication tool-Webblog

• Web log: a diary or journal on a Web site
• Now commonly referred to as a “blog”

Contrast with FDU Web site – example from Provost’s Page

• Provost’s Learning Outcomes Assessment Advisory Committee

Interactive communication

• Webcampus course and community – restricted access
• Requires maintaining list of users

Choice between public and private blog

• Controlled by Settings

Relevance for faculty in the University

• Part of Culture of Assessment
  • Feedback
  • “Closing the loop”
• Another mode of communication with students, colleagues

— Paul Younghouse

The Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology presents the Eighth Annual Teaching with New Technology (TNT) Institute, May 18th, 19th and 20th, on the campus of the College at Florham.

— Paul Younghouse

Battle of Actium

— Paul Younghouse

Demonstrate writing a hyperlink for FDU.

Demonstrate writing another hyperlink for FDU.

— Paul Younghouse

Orientation and Integration

Presentation

Application

Discussion

— Paul Younghouse

Resources:

Webcampus

• Discussion boards -asynchronous, branching
• Chat/Virtual Classroom – synchronous, Java-based
• Groups – mix of tools/resources

Wikis

• FDU Quality Assurance – http://fdu-qa.wikispaces.com/
• Wikispaces – Wiki
• Wikidot – Zombie Economics

Google Resources – do you know what your students have access to?

Weblogs – blogs

• Group – CTLT Dialogues – CTLT Blog

• Individual – Forest Street – Forest_Street at Blogspot
• PCY’S BLOG – at community.fdu.edu

Features of WordPress blogs:

1. Dashboard
2. Posts
3. Pages
4. Comments
5. Appearance
6. Media
7. Users
8. Settings

Evaluation:

• Rubrics, Checklists, Scales

— Paul Younghouse

Will Richardson’s “Pedagogy of Blogs”
p. 26-28

1. Weblogs are truly a constructivist tool for learning.
2. Weblogs truly expand the walls of the classroom.
3. Weblogs archive the learning students and teachers do, facilitating reflection.
4. As a democratic tool, Weblogs support different learning styles.
5. Use of Weblogs can facilitate the development of expertise in a particular subject.
6. Weblogs can teach new literacies that students may need in the coming information society.

Other aspects:

* evaluation
* capstone projects – semester-long, or program-long projects
* accreditation
* facilitate development of portfolios (digital files)

— Paul Younghouse

Create a “nom de plume” e-mail account
https://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=us

Blogger/Blogspot
http://www.blogger.com/

WordPress
http://en.wordpress.com/signup/

CTLT Dialogues
http://ctlt.wordpress.com/

— Paul Younghouse

Technorati: 203 blogs about pedagogy
http://technorati.com/blogs/tag/pedagogy

Barbara Ganley
http://bgblogging.com/

Lucy Appert’s “Teaching with Blogs”
http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/lga2/teachingwithblogs/

* Working with Texts: The Annotated Article Assignment

Anne Davis’s “The Write Weblog”
http://itc.blogs.com/thewriteweblog/

“Wandering Ink”
http://wanderingink.wordpress.com/

“The Edge of the American West”
http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/

“Strange Maps”
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

“Language Log”
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

“Critical Pedagogy Blogs” (Freire)
http://freire.mcgill.ca/content/critical-pedagogy-blogs

— Paul Younghouse

Welcome to Community.fdu.edu. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

— Paul Younghouse