Hootenanny!

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Who's talking at the session - index for podcast

Steve Matthews -- educational institutions are essentially like any other organizations
Alan -- teacher in position of individuals

Michael from BCIT - blog comes from place of personal interest

D'Arcy -- how to assess blogs?

* watching students connect dots across sites

??? -- motivate by forbidding kids from blogging

Alan - bloggin in education still a novelty
* when a class ends, does the blog end too? does it disappear

Sasson (sp?) - blog implies an embrace of community

D'Arcy -

Scott - institutionally hosted weblogs endanger what makes weblogs successful; what are schools prepared to tolerate? Authentic "identity creation" forces educators to re-examine their assumptions

??? - the kids are already blogging, to restrict or control is pointless

D'Arcy - issues of liability

Steve M. - "teachers are leading the community"

??? - how do you track 150 blogs in five areas?

??? - a lot of people aren't blogging? What about the people who are not comfortable reflecting in a public space?

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Michael - 'this is a new literacy issue'

Scott -- but do the kids bring critical thinking to bear in adoption?

??? - what about blogging for other teachers?

D'Arcy - one gets over a hurdle and can model to peers

??? - students in multiple classes being forced to maintain multiple blogs; stopping and starting along course schedules is guaranteed to wear students out and erode enthusiasm

* approaches to dilemma? - tagging and reaggregation?
http://www.technorati.com/tags/span505∞
http://posthegemony.blogspot.com/2006/02/blogging.html∞

Scott - creating semantic filters, holistic, blogging is a continuous experience

??? - assessment on blogging, limiting text-flow is a challenge

Gerry - what about the recalcitrant parents

Tyler -- building tools that support filtered aggregation

??? - this, with timelines, linking threads of discussion; genomics; such things are "fairly non-trivial", and still requires a human 'babysitter'