January 26-February 1, 2009: Week 3: Blogging, microblogging, and podcasting

This week we explore blogging in its permutations microblogging and podcasting.  Particiapants are encouraged to try their hand at these tools, develop their personal distributed learning networks, and consider how they can be expanding their personal learning record from blogging to documenting their progress in formats approaching e-portfolios.

• Content
  • Microblogging
    • AcademHack's Twitter for Academia: 

      http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/

    • Stevens, Vance. (2008). Trial by Twitter: The rise and slide of the year's most viral microblogging platform. TESL-EJ, Volume 12, Number 1:http://tesl-ej.org/ej45/int.html
    • Ruth Reynard, Technology Trends, Microblogging and Relevancy, Campus Technology, Nov 12, 2008

      http://campustechnology.com/articles/2008/11/microblogging-and-relevancy.aspx

    • Ben Walker: You're no one if you're not on Twitter, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYP-wBaqQAI
    • Twitter Options by Jennifer Verschoor                

      http://jenverschoor.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/twitter-options/

  • Podcasting
    • Graham Attwell, Blogging and podcasting for self directed learners:

      http://www.slideshare.net/GrahamAttwell/blogging-and-padcasting-for-self-directed-learners-presentation-582752 (let it buffer, then play)

    • Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts: Favorite podcasts, November 18, 2007: http://technotuesday.edublogs.org/2007/11/18/favorite-podcasts/
• Synchronous discussion

  • Cristina Costa addresses the group

    See http://goodbyegutenberg.pbwiki.com/EventsSchedule for latest venues and details

• Projects
  • Compile an annotated blogroll (at a wiki or combined blog)
    • Zaid Ali Alsagoff, 25 EduBlogs You Simply Don’t Want to Miss! http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/25-edublogs-you-simply-dont-want-to-miss-presentation/
    • Online Education Database, Top 100 Education Blogs, Published on Wednesday 20th of December, 2006 (but still 'current') http://www.diigo.com/annotated/f535f2c8ff6c1cba6a0b1613eeac67c2
  • Compile a listing of whose microblogs to follow.
  • Begin outline of what to put in an e-portfolio
    • Graham Attwell, E-portfolio Development and Implementation, http://blip.tv/file/300988
    • Dr. Helen Barrett, Electronic Portfolios and Digital Storytelling for lifelong and life wide learning, http://electronicportfolios.org/
    • Trent Batson, http://campustechnology.com/articles/2008/04/eportfolios-hot-once-again.aspx - "The learning management system may seem like the quintessential academic technology application, but instead the ePortfolio is. Both will be transformed by the distributed nature of the Web (data and functionality residing in multiple places), but the learning management system will start to lose its identity as a unified system when it is distributed to operating system functions or Web functions, while ePortfolios will retain their identity even when distributed because ePortfolio is glued together and its development guided by learning theory. ... ePortfolio is the learning technology of this age."

• Tools
  • Microblog platforms What is microblogging? Read the definition in WIKIPEDIA
    • Twitter http://twitter.com
    • Pownce http://pownce.com
    • Plurk http://plurk.com
  • Microblog aggregators
    • Twemes: http://twemes.com/evo2009mlit
    • Crowdstatus: (We'll set one up)
    • create your Twitter Group: http://twittgroups.com/login.php
  • Podcasting
    • Aggregators
      • Juice
      • iTunes
    • http://podomatic.com
    • Podzinger (speech recognition applied to search)
      • EveryZing: http://www.everyzing.com/
      • About Podzinger: http://websearch.about.com/od/imagesearch/a/podzinger.htm 

The Moderators suggest the following for additional insights and information ...

Vance's instructions on how to podcast using Podomatic: 

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/message/504