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document.write( "            EduBlog Insights: " );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Mr. B-G):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Great list of “Lessons Learned.” I integrated blogs and blog comments into some of my writing assignments last year, and the student response was overwhelmingly positive. This year I would be interested in collaborating with another teacher from another school in order to provide a greater range of comments from a more diverse audience.Have you come across any networks that would facilitate such a pairing?Thanks." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Diane Hammond):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Anne, sorry to have taken so long to comment on this post. Lately it seems like my aggregator is groaning under the weight of unread posts.<br><br>Like Kathy, I too could mirror your observations.<br><br>If I had to pick one to move to the top of the list based on my own experience it would be:<br><br> #3: Teachers need to be willing to spend the time needed to prepare for blog related activities.<br><br>We\'ve seen such a variety in blog posts among the hundreds of students blogging in both our Polar Science projects (www.polarscience.ca) and our current International Space Station Project, (iss07.yesican-science.ca). In classes where this is an independent project with little teacher involvement, a lot of students\' blogs lack focus, depth or true reflection. They are more on the level of IM-type communications. In classes where there is more blended learning, with students engaged in experimentation and discussion offline, there are more reflective-type communications. Students tend to ask questions and make observations that go beyond the superficial level. They build on each others questions and engage in thoughtful dialogue. We should never discount the role of teacher as facilitator." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(John Hackett):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> This is a follow up to Mr B-G’s comment as well as an introduction - a safe, social network aimed at school children was launched at the E2BN conference last week (see http://www.e2bn.org). The Learning Landscape for Schools provides safe place for pupils and teachers to use blogs and other web2.0 tools while offering the opportunity for a global audience and collaboration based on the Elgg platform (elgg.org). There is more information on the site." );
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document.write( "            Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech: " );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(http:blogorgcommunitiesdshermandefault.aspx Dave Sherman):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Ditto with the above comments. I love RSS and all the information it brings to me. My frustration as a principal is that I can’t get others to buy into the RSS world. I would much rather use my blog for school news and for discussing school-related issues, but parents and teachers are not going there enough for it to be successful. I am still writing an old-fashioned newsletter to parents because if I relied solely on my blog, most of the parents would not receive important school news and information. In addition to the newsletter, I write in my blog, and often I write similar about topics which is more work for me, and wastes valuable time. The blog should be my main vehicle for communication, but if parents won’t use RSS, they will miss a lot and then complain that I do not communicate well with them!I think the mass-usage of RSS is still a few years away, even though it is such a great application. 5 have tried to teach and persuade parents to use RSS, but most still don’t. I can’t even convince my wife! Why are people so resistant to this, especially now that most everyone has accepted email as an effective means of communication?<br>Dave" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Diane Hammond):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I had this discussion (yet again) this weekend as I showed the friends and relatives of my daughter-in-law, (who\'s headed off to work in an orphanage in Ecuador), her new blog. Most people seem to be afraid of the &quot;volume&quot; of information they might pull in. They don\'t seem to be aware that your RSS reader can be almost dynamic, adding and dropping feeds as your interests change. New reading skills need to be taught, so people can learn how to manage the information flow by skimming, tagging, editing feeds." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(http:technotuesday.edublogs.org Cathy Nelson):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Dean–My sentiments exactly!! I had always considered myself a person in the know. As a school library media specialist (teacher-librarian!), I feel it is my job to be up on newest trends in education. By reading my RSS daily, I have grown knowledge wise by leaps and bounds. So what do we do? Continue to share the wealth of information. Just today i added my blog address to my signature file in hopes of getting interest. Maybe I should also add a link to a reader?? Since many of my contacts love email, I can subliminally get them to read blogs, and perhaps subscribe to a few! Great post. I’m 100% in agreement with you." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(I recently did a blog post titled How do you Defin):</span>" );
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document.write( "                <a class=\"author\" href=\"http://www.cocomment.com/comments/dhammond\">dhammond</a>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Diane Hammond):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Sue, I may be the lone voice in the woods here but I wouldn\'t consider turning off comment moderation even for a minute. Spam is insidious!!! Except for our Space Station Project where we designed the collaborative learning interface ourselves, all of my project blogs are run on WordPress with the Akismet Spam plugin working in the background. Akismet is pretty good and catches the majority of the spam (432 pieces on my four project blogs yesterday alone). Yet I still find seemingly innocuous messages in the moderation queue with links back to porn and gambling sites. I don\'t want any links whatsoever between my work and those sites to propogate out into the blogsphere. I am online almost 24/7, (or at least it seems like it), so I can very quickly attend to the moderation queue. It\'s my last line of defense :-)" );
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document.write( "                <a class=\"author\" href=\"http://www.cocomment.com/comments/dhammond\">dhammond</a>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Diane Hammond):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Sue, I may be the lone voice in the woods here but I wouldn\'t consider turning off comment moderation for even one minute. Spam is insidious!!! Except for our Space Station Project where we designed the collaborative learning environment ourselves, all of my project blogs run on Wordpress with the Akismet Spam plugin running in the background. Akismet is pretty good - 432 pieces of spam caught on four project blogs yesterday alone! Yet I still find seemingly innocuous messages linking back to very inappropriate sites sitting in the moderation queue. I don\'t want to take any chances of having my work linked with those sites as the RSS feed propagates its way throughout the blogsphere. I\'m online 24/7, (sometimes it feels that way), so it\'s easy for me to quickly deal with the moderation queue. This is my last line of defense!" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(sweeneyblogs):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Another thought to limit spam access would be to take your blog out of “public view” (Under Settings&gt;Privacy)" );
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document.write( "            Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy: " );
document.write( "            <a href=\"http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/844\" class=\"article\" title=\"External link to article\"><br> RadioHead Video Message on Human Trafficking </a>" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(May 3rd 2008 at):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Open Thinking &amp; Digital Pedagogy wrote an interesting post today on RadioHead Video Message on Human TraffickingHere’s a quick excerpt I already love Radiohead for their music and for their approach to distributing their most recent productions. And now, I just noticed their powerful new music video that helps to bring great awareness of the issues around human trafficking and child exploitation. Watch the whole thing, it is very well done. Related posts I Love the World (1) Das Rad (the Wheel) (5) Empire or Humanity? (3) New Design High School (0) Bronx Student Discuss Obama, Politics, Race and Their Future (0)" );
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document.write( "                <a class=\"author\" href=\"http://www.cocomment.com/comments/dhammond\">dhammond</a>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Diane Hammond):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Very powerful video! In the late 1990\'s I had the honour of working with the Jr. Summit Project out of MIT\'s Media Lab. I worked online with students from around the world tackling major problems, child labour being one of them. From the online group, students were chosen to meet F2F at the Media Lab in Boston to present their solutions to leaders from government, business and academia. Among those students were child labourers from Nepal. It was a life changing experience for me to hear those students tell their stories!" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(May 3rd 2008 at):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Nicely done, Radiohead. They are one small part of the recording industry that is taking advantage of opening up business models in the midst of massive social change. Read Wikinomics anyone?" );
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