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Blogs and Wikis: Writing Across the Curriculum (Bridges, Brian)

Description: Discover a variety of online, collaborative writing tools, and see how teachers are using them to engage their students, participate in online writing projects, and publish to an authentic audience. We’ll review and demonstrate a variety of free resources including Edublogger, pbwiki, and Google Docs. Handouts include content standard connections, 100 ways to wiki and blog in the curriculum, and tutorials. Come early for a BONUS presentation.
Speaker: Bridges, Brian
Co-Speakers(s):
Pop-up: Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Code: 2232
Type: Non-commercial
Audience: Beginning, Intermediate
Grade Level: 4-12
Curricular / Topic: TL, IN / LA
Room & Location: Pasadena / Wyndham Hotel
Blog Tag: CUE08P2232 (Technorati Search) (Google Search)

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Permalink Reply by Brian Bridges on February 27, 2008 at 8:38pm: This session is going to be fun. I originally created this session for the CUE/CLMS technology conference last November and i've supplemented it with a variety of handouts that are posted on my wiki: http://brianbridges.pbwiki.com

In addition, I'll be presenting an all new BONUS presentation that will begin 15 minutes before the blogging session. Come early. Learn a lot more.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Rita Oates, PhD on March 1, 2008 at 9:30pm: Will you include the free SchoolBlog from ePals? It won an award as "best blog for education" from Technology & Learning magazine.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alice Mercer on March 6, 2008 at 11:45am: Might want to try: http://del.icio.us/alicemercer/7things for nice one page (2 sided) hand out on various web 2.0 tools.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Teresa on March 6, 2008 at 1:06pm: Fantastic presentation and thanks for all the resources! For downloading YouTube/TeacherTube videos, try also Zamzar. It converts your video for you, and emails you the link where you can go download it. (It also converts files, images, music). Nice if you don't want to download a converter program.; ▶ Reply to This