PCY'S BLOG

Value of Using a Weblog

Paul Younghouse — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:51:35 +0000

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

Eighth Annual TNT Institute – May 2011

Paul Younghouse — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:29:53 +0000

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 — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:36:37 +0000

Battle of Actium

— Paul Younghouse

Creating Links

Paul Younghouse — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:29:54 +0000

Demonstrate writing a hyperlink for FDU.

Demonstrate writing another hyperlink for FDU.

— Paul Younghouse

Things to do with social network platforms

Paul Younghouse — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:23:14 +0000

Orientation and Integration

Faculty-written Intros and Overviews
Identify Topics and Themes

Activate prior knowledge
Preview ideas that will come up

(Advance organizers)

Presentation

Lecture Notes
Slide Presentations
Audio/Video Recordings

Additional Material

Supplemental
Remedial

Application

Reactions to Prompts

(Images, Video clips, Short essays/posts)

Journaling
Critical Readings
Annotations
Glossary Writing
Short Biographies
Timelines
Genealogies, Family Trees
Interviewing
Placing in Context

Discussion

Playing “Tag” (with Lists)
Student-written Summaries – Peer review

Student-written SWOT (Strength-Weakness-Opportunity-Threat)

Crowd-sourcing
Indexing (Categories, Tags)

— Paul Younghouse

Talk over the agenda

Paul Younghouse — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:27:53 +0000

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:

Dashboard
Posts
Pages
Comments
Appearance
Media
Users
Settings

Evaluation:

Rubrics, Checklists, Scales

— Paul Younghouse

Notes from _Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts_

Paul Younghouse — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:10:36 +0000

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

Getting Started

Paul Younghouse — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:08:00 +0000

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

Blogging Across the Curriculum

Paul Younghouse — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:07:14 +0000

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

Hello world!

Paul Younghouse — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:48:16 +0000

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

— Paul Younghouse