1. Advanced Educational Blogging
Friday, February 22, 2019
Advanced Educational Blogging
From a technical perspective, how does all this work?
Created By Peter Rawsthorne

2. What are we doing today? Feedback Review of the assignment
What is a good post?
Blogger vs. Bloglines
Internet (How it works)
Packet switching network (TCP/IP)
SMTP, HTTP
XML & RSS
Rubric
Aggregators

3. Feedback (what I learned)
People liked the activities
People feel they are learning about technology
People wanted more visuals and lecture
People want to know more how-to
People want to understand blogger vs. bloglines
People want to get a better sense of where RSS fits in all this
People are ready to add multimedia to their blogs

4. Assignment Think about what makes a good age appropriate post
I’m noticing a lot of text with small font, could a grade 2 really read this?
How is the site going to be sticky?
What is the point of the blog? And this whole assignment?

5. blogger vs. bloglines Internet RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS

6. Packet Switching Network
What is a Network?
What is a Packet?
What is Switching?
What is a Packet Switching Network?

7. TCP/IP Activity BEGIN Look at the card Does it have your name on it?
YES: Keep the card
NO: Pass it on, in any direction.

8. TCP/IP Activity END If you have a pile cards
Did you receive them in order?
Arrange them in order, ascending by packet number.
WAIT

9. Server Protocols
TCP/IP
HTTP
HTTPS
SMTP
POP
FTP

10. PROTOCOL Activity BEGIN
If you have cards
Cross out your name
AND
Change the name on all the cards to one of the other students name
WAIT

11. PROTOCOL Activity BEGIN
If you have cards
Quickly start passing them out
Otherwise;
Look at the card
Does it have your name on it?
YES: Keep the card
NO: Pass it on, in any direction.

12. PROTOCOL Activity END If you have a pile cards
Did you receive them in order?
Sort them by PROTOCOL
Within PROTOCOL, Arrange them in order, ascending by packet number.
WAIT

13. XML - Data about data <person>
<first-name>Peter</first-name>
<last-name>Rawsthorne</last-name>
<DOB>28-Dec-1963</DOB>
<address>
<street>Oceanview Rd. </street>
<city>Bowen Island </city>
<province>BC</province>
</address>
</person>

14. RSS – Really Simple Syndication
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Family Travels</title>
<link>
<description> We have restlessness, we have curiousity, we travel... </description>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec :27: </pubDate>
<generator>
<language>en</language>
<item>
<title>Sailing downwind</title>
<link>
<comments>
<category>General</category>
<guid>
<description>
When you are driving in Quebec with a tailwind and the Quebekers
treating the Trans Canada like the autobaun you sure make [...]
</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

15. XML / RSS from end to end http://3484w06.blogspot.com/
view source

16. blogger vs. bloglines Internet RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS

17. RUBRIC Beginning Developing Accomplished Score 4 points Aesthetics
There are few or no graphic elements. No variation in layout or typography. OR
Color is garish and/or typographic variations are overused and legibility suffers. Background interferes with the readability.
2 points
Graphic elements sometimes, but not always, contribute to the understanding of concepts, ideas and relationships. There is some variation in type size, color, and layout..
4 points
Appropriate and thematic graphic elements are used to make visual connections that contribute to the understanding of concepts, ideas and relationships. Differences in type size and/or color are used well and consistently.
Posts

18. Rubric categories Overall Posts Multimedia Audience Content Aesthetics
Others??

19. Small groups Create rubric categories Write them down
With descriptions
With scoring
Write them down
Prepare for a group discussion
Every student scores the blog of the person after them on the class list. If you’re the last person on the list you score the first person on the list.

20. DEMO Aggregators See pages 10 through 14 of RSS ideas for Educators
Use bloglines (
DEMO

21. Exit Activity
Write on one side of the card the difference between blogger and bloglines
On the other side of the card write explain RSS.
Leave your cards at the front as you leave.
Remember: Next class is in the LAB, E5006