Blogs, Phones

I noticed something the other day. Try not to laugh, but I think the light went on in terms of tags. I use tags, though I think mine are a bit random, but as I was reading Will Richardson's blog the other day I started to see how many people's tags fit together. Just a small ah-ha I suppose. How much time does it take folks to cull through tags. I'm thinking of David Warlick's August presentation here in Orange County . He asked the audience to tag any blog entries we wrote about his presentation with David Warlick, literacy and something I've now forgotten. I had just started my Classroom 2.0 tech-thinking blog at that time. Who invited me here?

On another note, I've been blog surfing. Skimming and reading what interests me. I want to make a chart to sum up what I've learned about blogs and bloggers-- I acknowledge the nerdiness LOL, but I'm thinking it might be useful to use w/ teachers at school and my own teacher friends (the geese).

I finished Will Richardson's book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools. It's a good starting place for teachers I think. I wish I had read it a year ago, simply because much of the step-by-step instruction (for Audacity for instance) is something I already know. The classroom examples, especially the blog that Sue Monk Kidd participated on (in?) with students fascinates me. I am still having problems with my students and blogging.

The service learning blog that I set up is really just me delivering the same-old-same-old via a blog and reading it online instead of on paper. Perhaps that 's just one step on the teaching continuum or teaching with technology continuum (because surely now, that one will parallel the other)? There are a few differences though: students can comment, students can link to new content, etc. They just aren't doing it... yet.

I started this posting thinking about two things:
1. edublogs I've been reading
2. links to postings that illustrate instructional cell phone usage Alice Bedard-Voorhees

Letting Them Show What They Know

I want to go back to that later. Bedard-Voorhees also sent a link to her Rocky Mountain Ride blog postings which she said shows pictures sent from phone to blog. I need to try to do that. Hmm... how? I imagine it's about finding the right code to text the pictures to, right?