List of New Blogs!

I am going to use this post to show new blogs that are appearing. Feel free to continue to join as the week progresses.

#1 - Ethics and Use of Blogs - http://tltblogethics.blogspot.com/

#2 - Integrating Blogs into the Curriculum - http://integrating-blogs.blogspot.com/

#3 - Reusing Objects - http://reusingobjects.blogspot.com/

#4 - Faculty Engagement for Libraries/http://thediamondring.blogspot.com/

#5 - Self Directed Learning/ http://selfdirection.blogspot.com/

Blog #6: Teaching Manners/Ethics in Blogs

Author: Lisa Star

Topic: I am interested in discussing how we can teach students to use online tools such as blogs with appropriate standards. Ethics?/Standards?/Community Rules? do all these issues need to be retaught in online blogs forums and other such mediums?

Blog #5: Integrating Blogs in the Curriculum

Author: Karen Wahl from Mercer County Community College,

Topic: I would also be interested in a blog on How Blogs could be useful in Distance Learning (online courses). Do blogs serve the same purpose as an online discussion board? Do they have other advantages? I'm not quite clear.

Blog #4 Using Wiki's for Faculty Engagement

Author: Elizabeth Dellavedova, NVCC Annada

Topic: We are looking into a wiki as an outreach tool to our faculty. As a community college, the big problem is reaching the adjunct population.

Blog#3: Using Blogs to Engage Self Directed Learning

Author: Vicki Robinson/National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology & Beth Dailey/Nicolet Area Tecnical College

Topic Summaries from both: Beth Dailey said... I would love to participate in the blogs being suggested. I'm especially interested in how to incorporate blogs in an online course. We have been exploring the concept of self-dircted learning: how to assist students in the development self-directed learning skills. I would be happy to host a blog on that subject

Vicki Robinson said...A major frustration for a lot of college instructors is that many of our students are not at a point where they see themselves as constructors of knowledge. They see themselves as receivers of the instructor's knowledge, which leads to a certain passivity in their approach to their studies. A wiki seems to me to be the perfect vehicle to make the true nature of learning concrete; at the end of the quarter/semester, the class ends up with a coherent record of their communal experience, constructed by the class with expert guidance from the teacher.This is a nice vision. But how does one get there from here?

Blog #2: Learning Objects

Author: Kelly Stack from UC Santa Cruz.

Topic: I'm interested in looking at reasons why learning objects tend to not be re-used in higher education instruction, particularly at research univesities. What are the cultural, technical, psychological, and temporal barriers to use of learning objects by faculty at colleges and universities?

Blog #1 - ACRL Information Literacy Standards & participatory technology

Author: Serge Danielson-Francois
Topic: I would be interested in a blog on ACRL Information Literacy Standards and participatory technology (blogs, Wikis, feeds)

Instructions for new Blogs

Here are the instructions for the next step of the blogging process based on the topics that were suggested in the posts:

1. Each topic is now listed in a separate post.
2. Each topic has at least one assigned based on the person who suggested the topic.
3. The author(s) should add a few comments expanding on the purpose of the blog.
4. Everyone involved in this three week workshop should select at least one of these blogs to work on either as an author/moderator/or particiapant.
5. I recommend that 2-3 people manage the blog and the others sign up to participate as students.
6. Please post your name, title and email address as a comment in the post of the blog you wish to participate and please indicate what role you wish to have moderator/participant.
7. The person assigned as the author of the blog can select the online tool to use. You may use Blogger.com or any other tool.
8. Author and moderators should setup the blog, invite the participants and start the instructions.
9. Be sure to post the location of the blog, how to login, and when discussion will start.The purpose of this exercise is to give you an introductory experience at setting up, hosting, and moderating a short blog.

If there is not a topic you are interested in, it is not to late to add - just respond with a comment to this post and I will add more blog topics.Any questions send them my way.

I hope to see the blogs running in the next day and can remain running throughout the workshop or longer...