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Ohio Edublogging A weblog for discussion about integrating weblogs into Ohio classrooms Interactive Weblog Communities-Request for help Carol and I are working with the Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science, and Reading (ORC), to develop a weblog program for creating user communities. We are looking for weblog sites where there is active (hopefully lively) discussion, and communication. We need to demonstrate how weblogs can be used to create interactive communities of people with common interests. Our observation is that most weblogs are mostly information publishing sites, this weblog being one of them. Or at least this is our experience with the weblogs we follow. They are not generating much interactive discussion. At least not within the weblog itself. Weblogs are a perfect vehicle for creating communities, and we know they are out there. We need some examples to show ORC.  We suspect many of the really interactive sites have restricted access, such as class or course weblogs. Maybe some of those sites would be willing to allow a few people (say 5-10 or whatever is convenient) to drop in and see what is happening. Weblogs in the education field are most relevant but blogs in other areas will be helpful. Please pass this request for help on to others through your own weblog. Thanks for the help. Skip and Carol News Aggregation in the Classroom Will Richardson continues to blaze the trail. "Hmmm...I wonder how many people have "taught" Bloglines. I did today, showing my students the wonders of aggregation and setting them all up with accounts. They all subscribed to the New York Times front page, and I'm going to be feeding them some feeds on a pretty regular basis." Read more here. Toledo Blogs This Toledo Blade article, Toledo no slouch in the expanding world of 'blogs'  presents some good, basic definitions as well as some interesting uses of weblogs. The gathering of information on a particular country or region is an interesting possibility for a school project. What is a Blog People sometimes have a hard time getting a good understanding of weblogs. They have generally been considered online diaries, but as many of us know, they have much broader applications. Jay Cross of the Internet Time Group has put together an outstanding online presentation titled, as you might expect, Blogs. Next time you want to give someone a good weblog overview, try referring them to Jay's presentation. Note: This is primarily an audio presentation. Make sure you have your sound turned on. A Matrix of Weblog Uses in Education Scott Leslie, an educational technology researcher and emerging technology analyst, is working with Dr. Bruce Landon and the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET) on the Edutools.info project. The  project participants are researching course management systems. Scott has developed an interesting matrix of  possible uses of weblogs in education. He describes the project in his October 9, 2003 weblog post. [via James Farmer's incorporated subversion] BloggerCon BloggerCon was a terrific experience. Dave has posted the comments of some participants on the BlogerCon site. Participants included a number of leaders in the educational weblog field. It was great to meet people whose blogs we follow on a regular basis (Will Richardson, Pat Delaney, Bryan Bell, Erin ClericoDave Winer...) and to participate in lively and informative discussions about weblogging. There were some technical problems in getting everybody on line so Carol and I didn't have an opportunity to post comments while we were at the conference. Many of the participants have written volumes about the event.  Carol and I are writing a summary of our experience that we'll post in several days. We'll include a list of blogs written by other participants. BloggerCon News Feed A number of Ohio Edublogging readers have asked us to keep them posted on what is happening at BloggerCon. Well, here is the mother of all news feeds. A single news feed collecting weblog posts from all BloggerCon participants who syndicate their blogs. A great service. Suddenly all our weblogs will have a much larger audience. An awesome responsibility for each of us. At least for a few days, we will be distributed as far and wide as Dave. Dave reports in Scripting News: "The Big BloggerCon Blog: Imagine a web service that read all the feeds of all participants in BloggerCon, and present them in reverse chronologic order as if we were all writing for the same weblog. Well, Ross Karchner did exactly that. It's totally worth bookmarking. Thanks!" [Scripting News] Your questions and comments for BloggerCon We all have questions/comments we would like to have answered or would like to make about weblogs, Manila, Radio, the edublogging community etc... . This is your chance. Respond to this discussion topic or create a new topic -- We will get the answers and pass your comments on to the BloggerCon group.  A bulletin will be sent to all Ohio Edublogging site members when answers have been posted. Here is the Agenda for Day 1 and Day 2 and more information about the event. Thanks for your participation. Why Teachers Resist Using Technology "An Invitation to a Writer's Life. Deborah Coxwell-Teague, our First Year Writing Director at Florida State University, and great mentor to me, is exploring why teachers resist using technology as a presentation for the Florida College English Association Conference..." (more) [via Kairosnews] What Can't Google Do Tim Wilson, the Savvy Technologist points out an interesting Google feature. Did you know Google is a calculator? Here is Tim's article. [via Edublogger Praxis] Newsfeed display by CaRP