Diane Albanese's Musings » Blogs http://dalbanese.edublogs.org Life and Learning Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:53:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Off to NECC! Sponge, Sprinkler and Saturation http://dalbanese.edublogs.org/2009/06/27/off-to-necc-sponge-sprinkler-and-saturation/ http://dalbanese.edublogs.org/2009/06/27/off-to-necc-sponge-sprinkler-and-saturation/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:29:38 +0000 Diane Albanese http://dalbanese.edublogs.org/?p=175 Packing my bags right now for an exciting five day stint in Washington DC with my fellow techies at the National Educational Computing Conference, NECC.  This is my second NECC conference: I attended two years ago in  Atlanta and learned so much.

Looking forward to meeting Sue Waters of Edublog fame. She has a practical advice blog that has saved my teaching skin many times. My students all have Edublogs and we are quite familiar with this format so I am thrilled James let her come to NECC. Nothing like a Face to Face to enhance our teaching.

Next I am looking forward to being inspired. I want to be a sponge absorbing information, but also a sprinkler who shares my classroom experiences with others. By the end of the conference I should reach saturation!  Can’t wait to get wet.

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Personal

Public

Reflective

Useful

Creative

Informative

Reflexive

Instructive

Essential

Serve as a receptacle for

Lesson plans

Lesson support

Modeling

Reflection

Celebration

Information

Resources

Links

Fun

Blogs

Stay there

Are sometimes reliable

Expand your world

Allow students to respond

Enable students to write better

Enable teachers to share more

Encourage divergent thinking

Enable a community of learners

Are gifts you give students

Why Blogs?

Georgetown University link:

http://cndls.georgetown.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.projectDetail&projectID=27

Popular free blogs at

  1. https://www.blogger.com/start
  2. http://edublogs.org

Blogs by Me

this one – dah!

http://dalbanese.edublogs.org – this contains my professional writing and some personal observations.

http://mrsalbanese.edublogs.org – this was my 2007-08 teacher blog with links to my students’ blogs

http://dsaienni.edublogs.org – this is my current 2008-09 teacher blog which shows the beginnings of building a blog

http://italy2008.edublogs.org – this is a travel journal from my summer seminar in Italy

http://capelax2008.edublogs.org – a victory blog to help my son’s team celebrate and communicate

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