K12 Online Conference Reflection #21

Posted on August 15, 2008 by James Sigler.
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This is my reflection on the K12 Online conference presentation:

Classroom 2.0

Motivating Student Writers by Fostering collaboration through Tagging and Aggregating

By Vance Stevens, Abu Dhabi, UAE; Nelba Quintan, La Plata, Argentina; Doris Molero, Maracaibo, Venezuela; Saša Sirk, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, Rita Zeinstejer, Rosario, Argentina

What were the main points made during this session, the “takeaways?”

Background about how each presenter got involved in the Writing Matrix.
What is the Writing Martix project?
How the project works.
Stages for student involvement in the project

Class blogging and podcasting
Individual blogging and commenting
Tagging and Blog Search Engine
Tracking Blogs
Social bookmarking with Del.icio.us
Student feedback: Awareness of the audience

What they plan to do in the future

In terms of your own professional development, what did you gain from the session?

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The Bone Collector movie download I like the interesting idea of making a video of collaboration in Elluminate.

This was the first presentation to mention technorati. They gave a great example of how to use it with tags.

I like the Frapper map. I had heard about it, but not seen it before.
The Youtube video of the bungee jumpers is nuts. I would never do that.

What questions did you have after this presentation?

Did I see a picture of a class with XO laptops?
What kind of discussions took place in the classroom about the online conversations?

How will you apply the learning to your professional situation?

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I think I will introduce blogs in an almost opposite order to how they introduced blogs. We will start with a class feed reader, so we can read blog before we actually write blogs. We always move from whole-class to individual aggregators and blogs.

What other resources (including reading material) are relevant to this session?
www.writingmatrix.wikispaces.com

http://www.rostilj.blogspot.com/

www.technorati.com

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