So if a small bunch of teachers running around screaming blogs to a largely uninitiated audience is edblogging 1.0, and a suddenly bigger bunch of teachers blogging their own journeys and implementing the tools with their students is edblogging 2.0, then I think Ken Smith (who I’ll say again has been doing some of the best blogging out there of late) might just have the premise for edblogging 3.0:

But most of the benefit of the education blogging community is hidden away in the teaching of the individuals and the widely dispersed writing of their students. The results, therefore, are not very clear. Dention is partially right about the difficulty of building something — something institutional, say — through blogs. The edublogger community probably hasn’t done it with students, as far as I know. We have aggregated the work of teacher-bloggers, but I don’t know of anything enduring beyond a course that focuses on publishing student work. A critic might wonder if our community can only talk the talk — will we find a way to let students truly practice what we preach?

And this is precisely what Barbara is writing about today too…the endurability (?) of student blogging:

My EL170, Introduction to Creative Writing Course just wrapped up the semester (well, formally–that is; we plan to meet one more time to read and screen finished projects), and it was, I think, about as good as it gets for a teacher, and a pretty remarkable first blogging experience for them. If ever a class had a chance of moving the blogging community out of the classroom and into their lives at semester’s end, this would be the one. Of course there’s the distraction of summer, and the fact that 80% of them are going abroad next year. Will this community and its vehicle call loudly enough to keep them blogging collaboratively? Will the creative writing focus morph into something altogether different?

I’ll say again that the chances of blog adoption as a consequence of coursework is more likely in college where the blog can be a way of connecting students and ideas when they’re not in class. And I know not every student was born to be a blogger. But, I would argue that every student, every person was born to be a contributor, whether that’s via blog or wiki or podcast or whatever. We need to create a culture of contribution in our schools where our students’ work is non only celebrated but put to use in meaningful ways. Don’t just e-value-ate what they do but provide ways for what they do to have long lasting value.

Edblogging 3.0 should move us toward ways that will encourage students to weave these tools seamlessly into their educations and their lives. A lot of kids are already doing it outside the classroom. Wouldn’t it be great if they started in the classroom as well?

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“A pioneer educational blogger, he maintains a blog commonly cited by other teacher bloggers as their favorite.”
Washington Post

“The best presentation I’ve seen here (and there are many good ones, and yes, those are shocking words coming out of my critical fingers) was actually a full-day workshop by Will Richardson (his blog). I’ve never been to a full-day workshop at any conference where I was engaged the whole time and could have or would have stayed longer than the schedule allowed. I’ve already recommended that he be brought to Duluth for the NorthEast MN faculty duty day in August. He is a user and promoter for all things digital in education….blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds, social bookmarking, etc. etc. Really loaded with ideas for valuable educational uses of these tools, plus a great perspective and many examples of what K-12 students are doing right now in many places, and how we need to be prepared for when these kids walk in our front door.”
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e-Learning 2006
February, 2006

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October 2005

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Carol Smith
Assoc. CIO for Instructional and Learning Services
DePauw University
Greencastle, Ind.

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Susan Sedro
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Mont’Kiara Elementary School
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

“Thank you for renewing and confirming my belief in the process of lifelong learning!”
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Principal
Morris-Union (NJ) Jointure Commission

“With Will’s expertise, guidance and knowledge, I have been able to transform my broadcast journalism class through the use of blogs and share with my colleagues the plethora of ways in which blogs can enhance education.”
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“N.J. Teacher Makes Blogs A Staple at High School” By Valarie Strauss, Washington Post, April 4, 2006.

“Best Blog for Educators” Edutopia Magazine, April, 2006.

“Getting Connected” By Lucille Renwick, District Administration, April, 2006.

” The Social Web” Technology and Learning, March 2006, (author).

“Blogs Taking a Seat in, out of Classrooms” Chicago Tribune, March 13, 2006.

“Teachers using Web logs to promote class discussion” Courier Post, December 21, 2005.

“Blogs’ Catching On as Tool for Instruction” Education Week, December 14, 2005.

“The Educator’s Guide to the Read/Write Web” Educational Leadership, December, 2005/January, 2006, (author).

“What’s a Wiki? A Powerful Collaborative Tool for Teaching and Learning. That’s What!” MultiMedia and Internet @ Schools Magazine, November, 2005, (author).

“A Discussion with Will Richardson: Librarians & the Read/Write Web”, by Michael Stephens, ALA Tech Source, October 31, 2005.

“Blogging 101–Web logs go to school”, by Alorie Gilbert, News.com, October 17, 2005.

“Blog Revolution: Expanding classroom horizons with Web logs.” Technology and Learning Magazine, October 15, 2005, (author).

“New Kids on the Blog”, by Mary Ellen Flannery, NEA Today, October, 2005.

“The Online Edge”, by Odvard Egil Dyrli, District Administrator, October, 2005.

” Portrait of a Digital Native”, by Tom McHale, Technology and Learning, September, 2005.

“Blogging Classroom Connects to Parents”, by Emily Anthes, St. Petersburg (FL) Times, August 9, 2005.

“The Grades That Vanished, and Some Other Threats to Students’ Data”, by Tim Gnatek, New York Times, August 5, 2005.

“Blogomania”, by Eric Oatman, School Library Journal, August 1, 2005.

“More and more e-savvy educators using blogs”, by Cynthia Kopkowski, Palm Beach Post, July 5, 2005.

What’s in a Blog?, American School Boards Journal, July 2005.

New Jersey High School Learns the ABCs of Blogging, THE Journal, June 2005 (author).

“Blog On”, Edutopia Magazine, July 2005.

The ABCs of RSS, Technology and Learning Magazine, May 2005 (author).

Blogging to Build a Learning Community, by Pam Berger, Information Searcher, Spring 2005.

“Applying Technology: School Premiere—
The Blog” by Wylie Wong, Ed Tech Magazine, Spring 2005.

“When Kids Make Content: A Q & A” by Cedar Pruitt, Digital Divide Network, March 7, 2005.

“Reading, Blogging, and “Rithmetic?” by Andrea Flanagan, The (NCTE) Council Chronicle, March 2005.

“Blogging and Benefiting” by John Franklin, Education Update, ASCD, February, 2005.

“This Just In; Web Feeds for Enhanced Library Services” by Gerry McKiernan, Knowledge Quest, January/February 2005.

“All the World’s a Stage.” by Sarah Fallon, Edutopia Magazine, February, 2005.

“How do you communicate with students who have grown up with
technology? Schools are looking to technology for the answer.” by Kevin
Delaney, Wall Street Journal, January 17, 2005, pp R4.

“Do-it-yourself radio is spreading across the Internet like wildfire” by Odvard Egil Dyrli, District Administrator, January 2005.

“Blogs in K-12 Education: Where’s the Fit?” by Susan Brooks-Young, Today’s School, November/December 2004, pg. 23.

“Classroom Use Of Web Logs Raises Concerns” by Kevin Delaney, Wall Street
Journal, October 27, 2004, pg. B1.

“Harnessing
Technology to ‘Transform Education’” The Intel Innovator,
Fall 2004.

“Educational
Blogging” by Stephen Downes, Educause,
September/October 2004, p 14-26.

“In
the Classroom, Web Blogs Are the New Bulletin Boards” by
Jeffery Selingo, The New York Times, August 19,
2004.

“An
Interview with Will Richardson of Weblogg-ed.com” Blogs in
Education, About.com, August 19,
2004.

“RSS
could transform online communication” by Dan David,
eSchool News, August 3,
2004.

“Logs
prepare to go on a roll ,” by Stephen O’Hear, The
Guardian, June 8, 2004.

“Blogs: A Creative
Godsend or a Self-Indulging Curse” by Anne Davis, Tim Lauer and Will
Richardson Independent School Technology Letter,
May, 2004. (author)

“Weblogs in
Education, Endless Connections” by Angela Turk and Anne Davis,
Milestones (Ga. State U. magazine,) Winter, 2004, p.
12-14.

“Online
Blogging,” by Christian Toto, Washington
Times, January 12, 2004.

“Blogging
and RSS: The ‘What’s It?’ and ‘How To’ of Powerful New Web Tools for
Educators,” MultiMedia & Internet @
Schools, January/February 2004, p. 10-13. (author)

“Blogging On,”
Principal
Leadership (Middle Level Edition), November, 2003, p. 61-64.
(author)

“Web
Logs in the English Classroom: More Than Just Chat,” English
Journal, September, 2003, p. 39-43. (author)

“Weblogs:
Internet Publishing Made Easy,” Desien,
August, 2003. (author)

“Scaffolding
for Struggling Students: Reading and Writing with Blogs,” by
Sara Kajder and Glen Bull, Learning and Leading with
Technology, October, 2003, p. 32-25.

This
time it’s Personal by Mark Toner, Teacher
Magazine, October, 2003.

“Writing
with Weblogs” by Glen Bull, Gina Bull and Sara Kajder,
Learning and Leading with Technology, September
2003, p. 32-34.

Can
Johnny Blog?, by Pamela LiCalzi O’Connell, New York
Times, August 14, 2003.

This
Just In, Intel Innovation Odyssey, June
2003.

“Tools for Inquiry,” Knowledge Quest,
Journal of the American Association of School
Librarians, May/June 2003.

Writing
With Web Logs by Kristen Kennedy, TechLearning
Magazine, February 2003.

Technology
for All Students by Dr. Sylvia Charp, T.H.E.
Journal, April, 2003.

Blogs: A
Disruptive Technology Coming of Age? by Phillip Long,
Syllabus, October, 2002.

Weblogs
in Education: Bringing the World to the Liberal Arts
Classroom by Sarah Lohnes, NITLE News,
Winter, 2003.

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2006

“The Web Changes Everything” EduComm, Orlando, FL, June 7, 2006

“Blogs in the Classroom” WorkshopKeenesaw State University, Keenesaw, GA, June 6, 2006

“New Internet Literacies for Teachers”, Keynote Speaker, eLive, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., May 24, 2006 2005

TBD: Workshop and Featured Speaker, Maryland Distance Learning Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 1-2, 2006

“Web 2.0 Workshop,” Indiana Higher Education, Indianapolis, IN, April 20, 2006

“A Shifting Notion of What it Means to Teach,” Keynote Prsentation, NYSCATE Mid-Hudson Regional Conference, Wappingers Falls, NY, March 25, 2006

“RSS: The New Killer App for Educators,” MassCUE Technology Leadership Symposium, Worcester, MA, March 20, 2006

Featured Speaker, MACUL, Grand Rapids, MI, March 19, 2006

Featured Speaker, IL-TCE, Chicago, IL, March 2, 2006

“The Web Changes Everything”, Keynote, Tech Blitz, South Brunswick, NJ, February 21, 2006

Wikis in Schools, Bolton TLC, Bolton, UK, February 13, 2006

Full Day Web 2.0 in Education Workshop, eLearning 2006, Savannah, GA, February 11, 2006

Read/Write Web Workshop, Pinellas County School Disctict, Pinellas, FL, January 25, 2006

2005

“On-line Communities: Blogs, Wikis and other Tools”, Full-day Workshop, Nassau BOCES, Garden City, NY, November 4, 2005

“The New Read/Write Web: Transforming the Classroom”, Keynote Speaker, Internet at Schools West, Monterey, CA, October 24, 2005

“Losing Your Digital Accent” Keynote Speaker Wayne Finger Lakes BOCES, Rochester, NY, October 13, 2005

“Read/Write Web Tools for Teachers” Full-day Workshop, Warren County Tech, Washington, NJ, October 10, 2005.

“Emerging Technologies for Media Specialists”, PLAN, Pensacola, FL, July 27, 2005

“New Internet Literacies for Educators” and RSS: The New Killer App for Educators, Building Learning Communities, Boston, MA, July 19-20, 2005

“On-line Communities: Blogs, Wikis and other Cool Tools”, Full-day Workshop, Building Learning Communities, Boston, MA, July 18, 2005

“Thank you for renewing and confirming my belief in the process of lifelong learning!”

–Ethel Kozlik, Principal, Morris-Union (NJ) Jointure Commission

“New Internet Literacies in the Classroom”, Keynote Speaker, Institute for Library Information and Literacy Education Annual Conference, Kent, OH, July 13, 2005

“Lessons Learned: A Panel Discussion about Creating Educational Communities Online”, Panel Moderator, National Education Computing Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 30, 2005

“Effective Weblogs in Education: How to Create, Manage, and Communicate!”, Workshop, National Education Computing Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 30, 2005

“New Internet Literacies in the Classroom”, Keynote Speaker, DePauw University K-12 Bridge Program, Greencastle, IN, June 2, 2005

“Welogs in Education”, Technology Committee presentation, New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association, Monroe, NJ, May 6, 2005

“Welogs in the Classroom”, Kid Tech Day, New Jersey Department of Education, Trenton, NJ, April 22, 2005

“Welogs and Wikis in the Classroom”, NJ Business/Technology Education Association, Edison, NJ, April 14, 2005

“New Internet Literacies for Teachers and Students”, “RSS: The New Killer App for Educators”, and “Weblogs in Schools”, Featured Speaker, Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning Conference, Detroit, MI, March 18, 2005

“The New Internet Literacy”, Keynote Speaker, Internet @ Schools East Conference, Washington, D.C., March 17, 2005

“Wikis @ Your Library”,
Information Today’s
Computers in Libraries 2005, Washington, D.C., March 17,
2005

“Weblogs in Higher Ed.”
at Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ, March 9, 2005.

“Build a Blog: Can you build it? Yes you can!” (pre-conference workshop)
at Ohio
Commons for Digital Education 2005, Columbus, OH, March 6,
2005.

“Weblogs in Higher Education” Faculty Workshop, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ, February 10, 2005.

“New Internet Literacies for Teachers” (Workshop)
Whitney Institute Middle School, Bermuda, February 7, 2005.

2004

“Weblogs 101 for Librarians and Media Specialists”
at Educational
Media Association of New Jersey Annual Fall Conference, East
Brunswick, NJ, December 4, 2004.

“Weblogs and RSS in the Classroom” Kent Place
School, Summit, NJ, December 1, 2004

“Web Logs and RSS: Bringing the Power and Potential of the Internet to
Schools” at The
Conference for Managers of Information Technology, Mohonk,
NY, November 12, 2004.

“Expanding the
Boundries of Learning: A Leadership Challenge” Seton Hall University, West
Orange, NJ, November 6-7, 2004.

“Weblogs in
the Higher Ed. Classroom at NJ
Edge Technology in Education Conference, Plainsboro, NJ,
October 13, 2004.

“With Will’s expertise, guidance and knowledge, I have been able to transform my broadcast journalism class through the use of blogs and share with my
colleagues the plethora of ways in which blogs can enhance education.”

–Amy Bowllan, Kew Forest (NY) School

“Weblogs in the
Classroom” at the Warren County
Inservice, Washington, NJ, October 11,
2004.

“Blogging” at the New England Library
Association Fall Conference, Manchester, NH, September 27,
2004, with Linda Braun.

“Teaching with
Weblogs,” Warren County ETTC, Washington, NJ, August 25,
2004.

“Weblogs and RSS” and “New Internet
Literacies” at Building Learning
Communities, Boston, MA, July 29-31,
2004.

Featured educator in NECC keynote by Intel CEO
Craig Barrett, “Preparing
Students for the 21st Century,” New Orleans, LA, June 22,
2004.

“BLOG @ School: Understanding the
Opportunities, Implications, and Technologies”, NECC
Workshop, New Orleans, LA, June 21, 2004, with Tim Lauer, Steve
Burt, Tom Hoffman and Anne Davis.

“Weblogs
in Education,” (workshop) From My
Classroom to Yours Conference sponsored by the Southern
Regional ETTC (NJ), Mays Landing, NJ, May 10, 2004, with Kevin
Jarrett.

“Web Logs and Writing,”
(workshop) New Jersey Writing Alliance Spring Conference, Ewing, NJ,
March 19, 2004.

“The Next New Thing:
Create, Communicate & Collaborate with Blogs”,
Keynote Speaker, Internet
@ Schools East Conference, Washington, D.C., March 11,
2004

“Web Logs in Education“,
New
Jersey Association of School Administrators Techspo 2004,
Atlantic City, NJ, January 29,
2004.

2003

“Blogging in the classroom, lab,
library and school” panelist at EdBlogger
2003, San Francisco, CA., November 23,
2003.

“Web Logs and
Adminstrators” at the New Jersey Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development (Northwest Region), Somerville, NJ,
November, 2003

“Web Logs in
Schools” at New Jersey Association for Educational Technology
Fall Conference, Lakewood, NJ, October
2003

“Web Logs as Journalism” at Middlebury College, Advanced Student Technology Programs
Certificate Program in Digital Media Production and New Media Studies, Middlebury, VT, August, 2003

“Bringing Literature
Circles to the Web: Blogging About Books” at the National
Educational Computing Conference (NECC) 2003, Seattle, June,
2003.

2002

“Weblogs in the Journalism
Classroom” at the Journalism Education Association National
Convention, Dallas, November, 2002.

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Over the last week or so I’ve come across a few new edbloggers who are writing, thinking and doing in ways that have pushed my own thinking…which is the best part of the Read/Write Web, the finding new teachers part.

First off is Konrad Glogowski who is writing the “Blog of Proximal Development.” He is a writing and media teacher in Ontario, I believe, and he’s been blogging since February but has already covered some pretty heady ground with his students. I like his first post:

I wanted my first entry to be about the practice of blogging in my classroom. I looked at some of my class logs and found an interesting comment:

January 27, 2005. It is now 11:40am, I am sitting at my desk and the students are working hard on their blogs. All I hear is the gentle clicking of the keyboards. No talking at all. They seem to be totally engaged and focused on writing. All I hear is typing. I am wondering if this kind of intense engagement is good and whether it will last. Is it good that they are so engaged? Should there be more collaboration? Some of them occasionally come up and ask questions about their work. They want me to see if their work is “good.”

On comments, Konrad writes:

In an electronic blogging community, these “pencil-scratches,” to use Poe’s words again, acquire a truly communicative function. In an electronic community of writers we never talk “only to ourselves.” Instead, our marginalia, our comments and trackbacks, are given a new function which enhances not just our own experience of interacting with a text but also affects the experience of the writer with whose text we interact. The margins where we “attach” our electronic marginalia belong to somebody else. Our notes are no longer written only to ourselves. As soon as they are finished, they become part of the learning landscape. The reader and the author become electronically linked, and the link itself, one can argue, can be just as helpful to the author as it is to the reader.

He also writes a lot about community and the changing role of the teacher:

In order to be truly effective, blogging needs to be used as technology to support students in an active process of co-constructing knowledge. This requires that we look at curriculum as facilitators interested in guiding students rather than spoonfeeding them. We have to enter their conversation not as superior evaluators but as guiding and contributing voices, as co-investigators.

Good stuff, and I urge you to carve out a few minutes to sift through it and add him to your aggregator.

I also have been introduced to Susan Sedro from Malaysia who has started the “Adventures in Educational Blogging” site. She and a few of her colleagues have brought blogs to their students, and she’s giving us all a chance to watch what happens.

I am finding that the pieces are so genuine that it is easy to respond to the content; natural questions arise as I read and we discuss them. Those discussions are often leading to revisions by the students, but it feels different from other writing conferences. My perception is that the students are making the changes because they truly want to communicate with their readers, are caring to be understood. They are not revising merely because it will give them a hirer score or because they think it is required. If these blogs accomplish nothing more than this, I consider them a success.

And today she writes that things are heating up:

Friday was a day of intense blog activity. As is typical with any class, the longer an activity runs, the more spread out the students become in terms of project completion. We now have some students publishing their third post and some students who are not yet done with their first. They all want to conference, are all in our faces saying, “Please check mine so I can publish.”

I can’t tell you how much fun it is to see these types of sites springing up. I’m sure there are many more…my classroom/teacher blog list is up to 130 which I know isn’t even scraping the surface. It’s pretty inspiring…

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