blog Growing: Rooting a CMS in classroom practice

Presentation time: 1 hour
Submission proposal length: 2-3 pages, 1250-1875 words  Due date


Proceedings length: 3 pages  (guidelines)  Due date


AV equipment provided: PC, Monitor, Internet 


If you have mastered a new piece of software (or a new version) that others would be interested in learning about, submit a proposal for an Interactive Session.  In this informal session, you would demonstrate the software, illustrate the process of using it, show participants some of the complexities and tricks about it, and give them an opportunity to try it themselves.  


These sessions are also appropriate for instructional strategies, procedures, and evaluation procedures.  The idea is not to give a definitive workshop on the topic but to provide participants with enough information to help them decide whether their needs can be met with the program or procedure.


Include a description of the software to be used by participants, the objectives of the session, and the intended audience (experience level and prerequisites).

These presentations share a room with 2-3 other concurrently held Interactive Sessions. 


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Tutorial/Workshop proposal: Growing Web logs in an Urban Middle School <o:p></o:p>


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Objectives: In this interactive, hands-on workshop, participants will explore Manila weblog technology, a tool that helps teachers make public their individual work and the work of their students. Participants will visit various weblogs, construct a weblog for use during and following the session, and customize that weblog according to individual needs and interests.<o:p></o:p>


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Intended audience (experience level and prerequisites):  Familiarity with PC or Mac desktop, word processing and very basic HTML.<o:p></o:p>


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Proposed length (3 hours or 6 hours): 3 hours.<o:p></o:p>


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200-word abstract:  This interactive, hands-on workshop grows out of a two-year collaboration between UC Berkeleyís  Bay Area Writing Project and  San Francisco Unified School Districtís Dr. Martin Luther King Academic Middle School in the use of Web log technology for the staff development and the teaching of writing. The two presenters, the librarian and curriculum and technology integration specialist, designed and implemented a pilot project providing long term Internet Service Provider (ISP) hosting and Web log application training for teachers and students at the middle school. The project succeeded in developing an easily updated, interactive organizational Web presence for the school and in deploying a set of interactive Web-based tools to motivate, guide, organize and publish the results of student and teacher research, reading, and writing at the classroom level. It briefly describes the history and uses of Web logs as content management systems. The session will explain and give participants hands-on experience in the use of Web logs to train and support teachers in Web log use for staff development and student writing instruction;  and to organize and publish samples of teacher reflection journals, lesson plans and student work from Web log-supported writing tasks, lesson, assignments, and products.<o:p></o:p>


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Summary of the instructor’s qualifications: Patrick Delaney is the Associate Director for Technology at the University of Californiaís Bay Area Writing Project and the Library Media Specialist at Dr. Martin Luther King Academic Middle School in San Francisco, California. He is author of  ìFind It! Read It! Write It!: A Writing Project and a School Library Stretch the Power of Web log Technologyî to be published Spring, 2003, in ERIC-IT Annual. Mr. Delaney has provided staff development for k-12 through university teachers for over 15 years. Karen Claxton has taught in urban public schools for 18 years and has been the Currriculum Technology Integration Specialist and staff development resource specialist at Dr. Martin Luther King Academic Middle School for 12 years. She is the recipient of a California Technology Assistance Programís Outstanding Educator award for 2002.<o:p></o:p>



 


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Objective<o:p></o:p>


30 minutes<o:p></o:p>

  1. Introduction of Facilitators <o:p></o:p>

  2. Weblog Tour - An online tour of exemplary practices in Web log applications to teaching and learning. <o:p></o:p>

  3. What are weblogs? Introduction of a few resource sites and explanation of how to add to the on-going attempt at definition.<o:p></o:p>

30 minutes<o:p></o:p>

  1. Paticipants create and join their own Web logs<o:p></o:p>

  2. Participants create and post a news item   <o:p></o:p>

  3. Participants  create a story<o:p></o:p>

  4. Participants  link a news item to a story<o:p></o:p>

  5. Participants  use permalink with new item<o:p></o:p>

30 minutes<o:p></o:p>

  1. Participants make hyper-links in news items or stories<o:p></o:p>

  2. Participants edit the left navigation bar<o:p></o:p>

30 minutes<o:p></o:p>

  1. Participants upload a picture<o:p></o:p>

  2. Participants  insert a picture in a news item or story<o:p></o:p>

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  1. Break<o:p></o:p>

  2. Participants  join a weblog(edMedia Help) <o:p></o:p>

  3. Participants change their passwords<o:p></o:p>

  4. Participants  post their evaluations to a weblog discussion<o:p></o:p>

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  1. Visit the edMedia blogHelp site <o:p></o:p>

  2. Questions/answers<o:p></o:p>