1. PDERI Event 966 - J. Shitaoka, Instructor - Spring 2005 Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration Farrington High School Spring 2005 Jeffrey Shitaoka, Instructor

2. PDERI Event 966 - J. Shitaoka, Instructor - Spring 2005 Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration Agenda Course Preview/Housekeeping Course Expectations What are Blogs? - A brief intro Ready, Set, Blog - Starting your blog Wrap-up PDERI Event 966 - J. Shitaoka, Instructor - Spring 2005 Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration

3. Course Preview/Housekeeping Handouts: Learning Results Portfolio Template Learning Results Portfolio Explanation PDERI Event 966 - J. Shitaoka, Instructor - Spring 2005 Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration

4. Course Preview/Housekeeping Fall’s Course: “An inch deep, mile wide” This Course: “An inch wide, mile deep”

5. PDERI Event 966 - J. Shitaoka, Instructor - Spring 2005 Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration Course Expectations You: Must have access to the Internet (home access strongly encouraged) Are expected to feel uncomfortable, get out of your comfort zone. Must be an active participant. Share and encourage others. Must keep up with the assignments/deadlines! Are expected to contact instructor if you’re going to miss a class.

6. PDERI Event 966 - J. Shitaoka, Instructor - Spring 2005 Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration What are Blogs? - A brief intro Weblogs (blogs) are webpages. Online journals where others can contribute. Easy for non-techies to create and maintain. Blogs have been around for years, just beginning to pick up momentum in the educational arena.

7. PDERI Event 966 - J. Shitaoka, Instructor - Spring 2005 Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration Blogs? How did I get sucked in? SY 2001-2002, I noticed my students were talking about creating webpages on Asianavenue.com Q: How could students make webpages without knowing HTML, FTP, techie-geeky stuff?

8. PDERI Event 966 - J. Shitaoka, Instructor - Spring 2005 Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration Blogs? How did I get sucked in? Q: What is all the hoopla about?

9. PDERI Event 966 - J. Shitaoka, Instructor - Spring 2005 Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration Blogs? How did I get sucked in? When you become interested in something, you begin to notice it everywhere…just a few communities…

10. PDERI Event 966 - J. Shitaoka, Instructor - Spring 2005 Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration Blogs Big in 2004 1. Presidential Race http://archive.deanforamerica.com/ http://blog.johnkerry.com/ http://www.georgewbush.com/blog/ 2. Supplanting Mainstream Media (Dan Rather, Southeast Asian Hurricane/Tsunami) 3. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of bloggers

11. PDERI Event 966 - J. Shitaoka, Instructor - Spring 2005 Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration What about Educational Blogs? The focus for the course, but we’ll continue to glean insight from other domains…

12. PDERI Event 966 - J. Shitaoka, Instructor - Spring 2005 Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration Ready, Set, Blog - Starting your blog Enough talk, now it’s time for you to create your own blog.

13. PDERI Event 966 - J. Shitaoka, Instructor - Spring 2005 Teacher Bloggers: Advancing Online Teaching, Learning & Collaboration Wrap Up By next meeting: Tues, Feb. 15 Check course website and complete assignments…Readings…Work on your blog.