This afternoon, I am blogging from the live presentation from David Warlick currently being presented here on the Pudong Campus.
I dropped in a bit late, and man.... am I sorry I did!
He is now speaking about how information has changed-
In the past 10 - 15 years:
- we've added networking,
- digital media
- it is overwhelming
- flowing without containers.... information that is!
In the past 3 years:
- Conversations have been added worldwide
- Informaiton is reader controlled
- People are connecting with infromation.
CONTENT is Conversation-
Blogging is the best example of blogging 2.0. This is the most popular model of digital communications. What's special about this simple, simple technology is the way it has changed the way we communicate and view the world.
Most interesting to me is the effect that Blogging has become a great way for kids to communicate and write. Kids are begging for writing assignments and that their audience is now expanded beyond the teacher and student (with a few parents added for good measure).
Shanghai American School is really encouraging blogging for teachers and students. What a wave of enthusiasm for our kids and teachers and thanks to my friend and colleague Jeff Utecht thanks to his work with our own blog pages! Hurray, Hurray! We are building a community of learners both in our buildings and on our blogsphere at SAS!
It is common sense to see that an audience of our colleagues (and peers) brings us to be 1) VERY careful with our verbiage and 2) Very motivated to write to a high level---- current blog entry is probably immune from these two points (ha!).
David just noted that 8 million editors of Wikipedia are very powerful. One must believe that this certainly must not be for the faint of heart, but there does seem to be millions of brave folks out there!
RSS- REAL SIMPLE SYNDICATION!
I have not setup an XML or RSS feed button on this blog yet. Ok... you can click the link above, but that is not as fancy and cool. I am going to work on it today and see what I can do to damage this site more!
RSS is causing a major shift to find out information about our world. Information is finding us (if we ask) and we can train the web to do stuff that we have been doing ALL BY ourselves. The staggering thing is the tool del.icio.us which the connections of interests and other's connections and links made. We are making what David is calling "personal learning networks". This PLN will help us learn and do our jobs better! I agree with David when he says that he believes teachers should be using this to learn.
His final example www.wearenotafraid.com... when else in our life time is something like this possible. Common Sense would tell me that this will change our world and that of our children!
Thank you David!
Technorati Tags: redefining literacy, David Warlick, techfest, SAS, Shanghai American School
I dropped in a bit late, and man.... am I sorry I did!
He is now speaking about how information has changed-
In the past 10 - 15 years:
- we've added networking,
- digital media
- it is overwhelming
- flowing without containers.... information that is!
In the past 3 years:
- Conversations have been added worldwide
- Informaiton is reader controlled
- People are connecting with infromation.
CONTENT is Conversation-
Blogging is the best example of blogging 2.0. This is the most popular model of digital communications. What's special about this simple, simple technology is the way it has changed the way we communicate and view the world.
Most interesting to me is the effect that Blogging has become a great way for kids to communicate and write. Kids are begging for writing assignments and that their audience is now expanded beyond the teacher and student (with a few parents added for good measure).
Shanghai American School is really encouraging blogging for teachers and students. What a wave of enthusiasm for our kids and teachers and thanks to my friend and colleague Jeff Utecht thanks to his work with our own blog pages! Hurray, Hurray! We are building a community of learners both in our buildings and on our blogsphere at SAS!
It is common sense to see that an audience of our colleagues (and peers) brings us to be 1) VERY careful with our verbiage and 2) Very motivated to write to a high level---- current blog entry is probably immune from these two points (ha!).
David just noted that 8 million editors of Wikipedia are very powerful. One must believe that this certainly must not be for the faint of heart, but there does seem to be millions of brave folks out there!
RSS- REAL SIMPLE SYNDICATION!
I have not setup an XML or RSS feed button on this blog yet. Ok... you can click the link above, but that is not as fancy and cool. I am going to work on it today and see what I can do to damage this site more!
RSS is causing a major shift to find out information about our world. Information is finding us (if we ask) and we can train the web to do stuff that we have been doing ALL BY ourselves. The staggering thing is the tool del.icio.us which the connections of interests and other's connections and links made. We are making what David is calling "personal learning networks". This PLN will help us learn and do our jobs better! I agree with David when he says that he believes teachers should be using this to learn.
His final example www.wearenotafraid.com... when else in our life time is something like this possible. Common Sense would tell me that this will change our world and that of our children!
Thank you David!
Technorati Tags: redefining literacy, David Warlick, techfest, SAS, Shanghai American School
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