Could have been my own voice… ;-)
Has it ever happened to you? You have a message going inside your mind, rumbling and mulling inside your head…. A message you’d like to put in black and white (or whatever combination of colours that is in digital form)… and then publish and post so that you can reach all your colleagues… But life goes on, and you work hard, and make some small attempts at spreading the word, and keep telling yourself “one day, I’ll be able to show it in neon lights”.
So there I was, browsing TeacherTube in search of a video that discusses how new technologies can help young learners learn… and, voila!
Download Video: Posted by suziea at TeacherTube.com.
I usually don’t give videos that last more than 5 minutes a chance, but since its description read:
An explanation of what Web 2.0 is, a look at how it benefits children, a closer look at blogs and wikis and tips on how to get started
… I decided to “give it a click”…
I have never heard about “suziea” before, have no idea where she comes from or why she uploaded this video to the web, but what a surprise to watch 16 minutes and keep anticipating the words… I think I’ve found a twin soul in cyberspace… one who’s better at multimedia, though, as I’ve never produced a video yet!
Have you found your twin cyber-soul yet? While you wait for such a moment, why not enjoy this video clip?
Gladys
PS: if you are wondering how to embed a video from TeacherTube into your edublog too, follow the link to “Gladys Learns Edublogs” in the comments below.
I've been reading..., Learning to use Edublogs, Teachers and technology, Wikis | Comments (2)testing WriteToMyBlog
testing an oline blog editor I learnt about from Gustavo, whom I've recently met at EdubloggerArgento.
On its homepage, I read:
WriteToMyBlog is a free web based word processor for your Blog.
Create Post Entries for your Blog from right here, completely free, no
membership required, can Post to multiple Blogs simultaneously, manage
your Posts, works with all major Blog programs, and is easy-peasy!
Promising, though I've just failed to insert a picture from my Flickr!
Tags: blogging4educators, blogging
Editing comments at Edublogs
I’ve already shared all this at B4B, but I’d better post it here so that I can find it when I need it…
Carla Raguseo pointed out that (unlike Blogspot), Edublogs allows you to edit comments posted either by yourself or others to your own blogs (Blogger does allow you to delete them, but not edit). It took me a while to find out how to go about it, and this is what I learned then:
- Click on Administration/Manage/Comments
- then click on Edit for the comment you want to modify or “Mass Edit Mode” to edit it all comments…
- The editor for comments has lots of icons that enable WYSIWYG when editing comments, quite similar to what you get when entering posts (just more limited, no options for embedding.) Pretty easy to format a just entered comment! I’d just tried HTML for link in the comments, and they worked! There’s no preview option, but it’s you can always edit them later!
- You can even “unapprove” already published comments!
Comparing Blogger and Edublogs: At Blogger, I can delete comments I’ve entered to any blog (not only my blogs) by clicking on the grey trashbin in the comments blog… Is there any way to take my words back in comments I post to other people’s Edublogs, apart from emailing the owner and requesting they delete my comment? Not that I need to, just exploring the options! I think I’m finally “falling in love” with Edublogs… not as intuitive as Blogger, so I’ll stick to that one for my class blogs for the time being, I hope I’ll be posting more regularly to my Edublog myself!
Gladys
Teaching writing, teaching life…
Co-presenting with Bee Dieu for Blogging for Beginners, Aaron Campbell said:
“Over time…
Authoritarian and Vertical Classrooms
Create Authoritarian and Vertical Minds”
(click here to watch their wonderful presentation on “Involving students in Blogging“)
Having watched (click on the grey triangle over the image below to see the video):
Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us (4:31 mins)
by Digital Ethnography (a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography, led by Professor Wesch) today,…
I wonder whether we writing teachers can keep denying that…
“Over time…
teaching unilinear writing, fixed in time
creates unilinear thinkers, unwilling to question
and mistrustful of lifelong learning”.
Gladys (rethinking my teaching practices ;)!)
NOTE: first time embedding a video in one of my blogs! 
