Improving+Literacy+Skills+Through+Blogging


 * Improving Literacy Skills Through Blogging **

Literacy in its truest sense is about the ability to communicate with others through written or spoken word. The emergence of new technologies has challenged this simple foundation by providing new venues for the expression of thought. In this session, learn how blogging is contributing to a shifting notion of what it means to be literate. We’ll explore the concept of blogging, create a blog, learn how to frame comments, and study how blogging can support the development of better writing. Leave the session with an understanding of a substantive tool and process that can help your students become better writers and communicators.
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//** What do you have to say? What do your students have to say? **//


 *  Introductions **


 *  Defining a shifting notion of literacy **
 * What is literacy?
 * "Being literate in a real-world sense means being able to read and write using the media forms of the day, whatever they may be" | [|Jason Ohler 2009]
 *  Do you " see the Internet not as a technology but rather as a context in which to read, write, and communicate? | [|Leu et. al. 2009]


 * Linking blogging and literacy **


 * What is Blogging? Dissecting a blog post **
 * ====[|Introductory graphic] on the skills that blogging supports | Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano====
 * Skills: commenting, reviewing, posting (writing), moderating, collaborating, networking, reflecting | from Learning Objects Community, see link below)
 * [|The Strength of Weak Ties] | David Jakes
 * [|The Scribe Post] | Darren Kuropatwa
 * Writing
 * Links
 * Multimedia
 * Comments | [|The Top 10 Reasons the NY Times deletes comme]t


 * Establishing a blogging account **
 * [|Getting a Google Account]
 * [|Getting a Posterous Account]


 * Introducing Posterous **
 * Completely scalable, potential to grow as needed, simple to post.


 * To post to a Posterous blog, you only need an email account. **
 * [|My Posterous account]
 * [|My presentation Posterous account] | examples of media embedded in Posterous


 * How Posterous works **
 * <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posting via Gmail
 * <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Subject Line | becomes the title of the post
 * <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Body of email | becomes the post
 * <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Attachments | get built into the post, documents, mp3 files, images, powerpoint files are the main types of attachments used
 * <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Embedding Links | pertains specifically to YouTube links, will actually embed the video in the post
 * <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bookmarklet | allows the author to hilite a section a web site and post to the


 * <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tagging as a methodology for organizing
 * <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Will you develop a class set of tags


 * <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Contributors to your Posterous Site
 * <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Requires an email address


 * <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Private or Public | Public: anyone can see it if they know the address, private: requires a password to view the content


 * <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sending your first post via Gmail **

<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Resources**
 * <span style="color: #2a78a4; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|10 Ways to Promote Writing for an Authentic Audience] | The Learning Network of the New York Times
 * <span style="color: #2a78a4; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|Blogging Rubric] | Ryan Bretag
 * <span style="color: #2a78a4; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|Blogging: It Isn't About the Writing] | Ryan Bretag
 * <span style="color: #2a78a4; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">How to Teach Commenting Skills | Educational-Blogging
 * [|Wrapping My Mind Around Digital Portfolios] | Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
 * <span style="color: #2a78a4; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|100 Blogs for Technologists] | First in Education
 * <span style="color: #2a78a4; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|Those 21st Century Locker] s | Darren Draper
 * <span style="color: #2a78a4; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging...And When to Use Them] | Rohit Bhargava
 * <span style="color: #2a78a4; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|Room 9 Nelson Central's Blog] | Rachel Boyd
 * <span style="color: #2a78a4; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|Bloom's Taxonomy and Blogging] | Learning Objects Community
 * <span style="color: #2a78a4; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|SSR 2.0] | Mark Ahlness
 * <span style="color: #2a78a4; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|New Media Literacies, featuring the Blogfolio] | Jason Ohler