Monday, April 09, 2007
Blog Roll Went Down :(
It seems that great service offered at www.blogrolling.com went down for a while.. maybe they're getting more traffic than they're set up for? Does anyone know of any other services that help automate blog rolls? It would be good to know if there are some others out there.. it was out for six hours, I'd say.. but happily it is back.. it is truly a time-saver!
Lynne
Lynne
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Get Out & Play! PodCampNYC Report
What a Great Day! Though I must say, I thought it would be more crowded. I actually ran into a couple of people I know: Sarah McPherson one of my NYIT professors, and Webgrrls I
nternational NYC chapter leader Nelly Yusupova. YOU SHOULD JOIN! I did meet some interesting people, volunteered for 'watching the computer' for an hour, and attended some great sessions. Unfortunately I was unable to attend the after party-ing at Slate. Aside from Podcasting, there were blogging sessions, too, which I was most interested in . I also learned how to use WordPress to support multiple bloggers to a hosted website from one of the participants - I think it was Eric Skiff from clipmarks.com (great tool for clipping parts of web pages and saving/sharing them) who offered a solution for that.
I attended 5 different sessions -
I was very impressed with the organic nature of the event and the presenters. They had great experiences to relay and excellent ideas. Someone I missed was Laura Allen, co-founder of 15secondpitch.com. If you are doing any kind of marketing, this looks like a great tool and you can share your pitch from their site. The event itself was organized very 'organically,' - they used wikis and blogs throughout the website which made it a simple process to register, volunteer, add events, and resources and they will be updating the site.
It's time to get serious about blogging and connectingvia the web with new people. How? comment, link, technorati, stumble upon (and don't forget to stumble upon your own site), maybe twitter, linked-in, ning. Poke around. I've found lots of useful tools by reading other's blog.. like this one-click blogroll tool from blogrolling.com .. what a great timesaver! Investing time, takes time, ... and over the next few weeks I won't have too much to spare. - school work, trip to Arizona and working may keep me away for awhile!
PodCampNYC was a wonderful experience... and people are busy organizing them in other cities.
For some pics, try this link to a flicker search. Check out the NYC Podcamp Wiki for resources .. which are minimal right now, but hopefully many will be added soon. Did you attend PodCampNYC - what did you find most interesting?
The BIG question for teacher, is how do we use these tools and resources in the classroom for learning. Many are using blogs, but the social network phenomena is frowned upon. You might want to connect your students in a Ning network .. or encourage online portfolio development. What are your thoughts?
All the Best,
Lynne
teaching portfolio at lynnembailey.com
studio portfolio at PresentsByDesign.com
body art/face painting at FunMasters.biz
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nternational NYC chapter leader Nelly Yusupova. YOU SHOULD JOIN! I did meet some interesting people, volunteered for 'watching the computer' for an hour, and attended some great sessions. Unfortunately I was unable to attend the after party-ing at Slate. Aside from Podcasting, there were blogging sessions, too, which I was most interested in . I also learned how to use WordPress to support multiple bloggers to a hosted website from one of the participants - I think it was Eric Skiff from clipmarks.com (great tool for clipping parts of web pages and saving/sharing them) who offered a solution for that. I attended 5 different sessions -
- Amy Domestico of blogTalkRadio led an information session on using about BlogTalkRadio to host your own Internet radio podcast, live! Of course it does get archived for later listening. What a fabulous service.. you can hook up to 7 different people via phone (other tools coming.. including community groups) for a podcast panel, broadcast it live.. this could be very useful for...
- Wayne Turmel, host of The Cranky Middle Manager Show who led a session on 'Creating a Read Podcast Brand' He told his story about growing his podcast audience. He is now featured as a writer on a British website. Interestingly, when he polled his readers listeners they most often expressed an interest in being able to connect with each other (enter BlogTalkRadio). Which brings us to ...
- CC Chapman on the New Media Playground talking about - how we connect in this read/write /record/listen web world. Twitter this! Very friendly, very connected - he even has an island on second life, that virtual reality world site that I haven't explored yet. I will get to that when the semester is over. There are lots of 'adults' there, too. Chris drove home the point that we each have a unique voice and others are interested in sharing with us.. so Go out and Play! .. blog, find other blogs, make comments, get connected!
- Valerie Luther of Creative Concepts talked about using blogging for business. Her company created a very successful blogging, marketing strategy for Biglow Tea and she discussed the process of growing that. It's making a significant difference for the company. Valerie's company is hosting a onference on May 15 2007, BusinessSmartTools, in Stamford Connecticut. She is a very engaging speaker and I am sure the conference will be worthwhile.
- More marketing ideas from Chris Penn of Edvisors, who was very knowledgeable about the blogosphere and podcasting, spoke fast, and reinforced much of what other had to say. I am a member of Linked-In, and Chris had contacted me there before the conference. He does a DAILY podcast & blog at Financial Aid Podcast, primarily tuning into the college-student market and categories on Podcast, PodCamp, Focus on Financial Aid, Podsafe Music, Scholarship Update, Mailbag, and Politics .
I was very impressed with the organic nature of the event and the presenters. They had great experiences to relay and excellent ideas. Someone I missed was Laura Allen, co-founder of 15secondpitch.com. If you are doing any kind of marketing, this looks like a great tool and you can share your pitch from their site. The event itself was organized very 'organically,' - they used wikis and blogs throughout the website which made it a simple process to register, volunteer, add events, and resources and they will be updating the site.
It's time to get serious about blogging and connectingvia the web with new people. How? comment, link, technorati, stumble upon (and don't forget to stumble upon your own site), maybe twitter, linked-in, ning. Poke around. I've found lots of useful tools by reading other's blog.. like this one-click blogroll tool from blogrolling.com .. what a great timesaver! Investing time, takes time, ... and over the next few weeks I won't have too much to spare. - school work, trip to Arizona and working may keep me away for awhile!
PodCampNYC was a wonderful experience... and people are busy organizing them in other cities.
For some pics, try this link to a flicker search. Check out the NYC Podcamp Wiki for resources .. which are minimal right now, but hopefully many will be added soon. Did you attend PodCampNYC - what did you find most interesting?
The BIG question for teacher, is how do we use these tools and resources in the classroom for learning. Many are using blogs, but the social network phenomena is frowned upon. You might want to connect your students in a Ning network .. or encourage online portfolio development. What are your thoughts?
All the Best,
Lynne
teaching portfolio at lynnembailey.com
studio portfolio at PresentsByDesign.com
body art/face painting at FunMasters.biz
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Labels: blogrolling, blogtalkradio, cc-chapman, clipmarks, cranky middle manager, edvisors, financial aid podcast, lynne bailey, nelly yusupova, podcampnyc, podcasting, valerie luther, webgrrls
Friday, April 06, 2007
Open Educational Resources: OER
You may have read that MIT has made all their courses available online .. and so have many other institutions .. and they are searchable at www.oercommons.org. ISKME (The Institute for Study of Knowledge Management in Education) has created this new learning portal with more than 8,000 digital classroom materials from top university faculty available free of charge. But it's not just a higher ed resource, K-12 materials are available, too. They have aggregated a lot of course here and there are also some other searching resources for technology resources and news that you can use. I'm sure they will continue to expand and look for additional contributors.
Open Education Resources, or OER, offer new ways to engage with free-to-use learning content.Users can create their own portfolios of materials. " With a free membership, you can add tags, ratings, reviews, comments and favorites to your own portfolio. You can also post to discussion, blog and wiki areas and see how others are using OER."
Labels: free course materials, free university course materials, ISKME, OER, open educational resources, teaching
