A Teacher Considers Jumping into the Elgg
Posted by Paul Allison on September 21st, 2006
Listen to the podcast of our visit with Kevin Hodgson, a sixth grade teacher and Writing Project Tech Liaison in Western Massachusetts. He is considering joining the middle school student elgg at personallearningspace.com. Susan Ettenheim (who webcast this show with her usual tact and ability, and edited it) and Paul Allison talk their early work the new elgg for high school students at youthvoices.net. We talked about all of this with another elementary school teacher, Teb Locke, who has some pretty exciting ideas for his Neighborhood School students. Somewhere in here you’ll hear Paul talking about an article he sent to his principal that argued for CEO’s to be bloggers. This is what Paul wrote to Mark Federman, his principal this summer in an email titled “Ready to blog?”
Here’s an article about C.E.O’s that I thought would be of interest to you. All you have to do is replace “Capital markets” with “Schools” and “C.E.O’s” with “Principals.” All the Internet’s a Stage. Why Don’t C.E.O.’s Use It? by Randall Stross (NY Times, Published July 30, 2006).
About a month ago David Warlick asked for some examples of elggs, and Dave Cormier and others had some quick answers then. We think that our students’ work at youthvoices.net is beginning to add to this discourse (personallearningspace.com too, but that’s a closed site).
Finally, we did talk about a map project that many of the students in these elggs will be doing. Follow our progress at Personal Learning Map: Entry Points.
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September 24th, 2006 at 5:37 am
[…] Lasst week, I joined an online conversation with folks through Teachers Teaching Teachers that explores the convergence of technology and teaching in its many varied forms. I have been curious about the concept of Elgg communities and jumped into the conversation with some questions (for my own benefit and for my wife, who is a high school teacher). As far as I can tell, Elgg offers the possibility of a safe online community that links members together through shared interested and through related “tags” that they create in their profile. It mirrors Facebook and MySpace, but without the advertising and mess of those sites. Dave Tosh provides a good overview of Elgg at his site. You can listen to the podcast of that conference through the Teachers Teaching Teachers site. Or you can find that link here: Listen to the podcast […]
September 26th, 2006 at 12:27 am
All the Internet’s a Stage and I’m a parent with a great song and dance routine when it comes to my child’s education. I’ve had a really successful run on Broadway! Please see my show at http://youthplay-org.blogspot.com. The tickets are free!