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document.write( "            Welcome to The Edublogger!: " );
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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( "                <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=\"comment\"> Sue--my goodness, you may have just sold edublogs on MANY blogger devotees! Nice and helpful post. Glad to report I was in line with all except moderation. The educator who likes her job just can\'t fathom not moderating. Thankfully I\'ve never lost a comment to a long que in moderation. <br><br>Here\'s a feature I\'d like to see. I would like to see a tick for emailing the commenter when you &quot;comment&quot; back. (Not the same as ticking email me of follow up....) For a long time I though Doug Johnson of the Blue Skunk Blog had this feature in his blogging platform, because i always got an email of his comment back if I commented on a post he wrote. I finally asked, and he said no special feature, just good manners is why the email came....LOL." );
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document.write( "            Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy: " );
document.write( "            <a href=\"http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/856\" class=\"article\" title=\"External link to article\"><br> Girl Who Silenced the World </a>" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(5 June 2008 at .):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> AlecLet you thing a little.. I will share it with the kids and teachers at school.<br>Thanks<br>Irma" );
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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\"> &quot;Did you have to worry of these things when you were my age?&quot;<br><br>This concerns me. I\'m hearing fear and helplessness in students\' voices - in the classroom and in their blogs. We are doing so much to make students aware of society\'s problems, but are we crippling them with anxiety? How many of our dis-engaged youth are asking themselves - so, what\'s the point? I think we need to use examples like this one to empower students, to show them that every single voice can count - that individual actions on a grand scale will bring about positive change. Thanks for sharing this!" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(5 June 2008 at .):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Powerful." );
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document.write( "            Education & Technology: " );
document.write( "            <a href=\"http://corinnep.edublogs.org/2008/05/24/twitter/\" class=\"article\" title=\"External link to article\">Twitter!?</a>" );
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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\"> Even if you take students out of the equation Twitter is an invaluable tool for teachers. Teaching is a very isolated profession. You spend your day in a room with students but rarely have time to talk with colleagues. Twitter helps you connect instantly with colleagues across the hall, district or country. Pretty powerful!" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(April Soloway):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\">   April Soloway" );
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document.write( "            Ashley’s Weblog: " );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Diane Hammond):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Thanks for pointing to Rodd\'s post. The issue of online presence and by extension professional conduct is looming large on the horizon for teachers\' federations. It is a critical issue they are going to have to tackle. I like Rodd\'s proactive approach. What\'s your feeling about &quot;living&quot; your personal life on the Internet? How do you feel about students and parents being able to find the social networks you belong to, the art you like, the books you read, the hobbies you engage in...?" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(kkrug May 16):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I really enjoyed your post, Ashley! From someone who has also “googled’ themselves, I can totally understand your worry of what might be out there. I will read the article you suggested now, thanks" );
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document.write( "            The Clever Sheep: " );
document.write( "            <a href=\"http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/2008/05/back-channel-learning-at-tlt.html\" class=\"article\" title=\"External link to article\">Back-Channel Learning at TLt</a>" );
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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\"> Over the past year, I\'ve been taking every opportunity I can to engage in backchannelling activities. The first time I saw backchannelling in action was last year at NECC in Atlanta. I was able to see it working while I was physically there, as well as after I returned home (I couldn\'t stay for the whole conference). While I could immediately see the potential for both professional and classroom learning, I initially felt that I didn\'t have the required skill set to be an active participant. My brain seems to be wired in a more-or-less linear fashion and initially it seemed overwhelming to keep up with the pace and as you say &quot;random&quot; nature of the conversations. I\'m happy to report that you can teach an old dog new tricks and I\'m feeling pretty comfortable these days in backchannel conversations! I\'m off to watch a TLt UStream presentation now, courtesy of Alec Couros. See you in the &quot;backchannel&quot;!" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Rodd Lucier):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I\'ll be looking for you Diane!" );
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