EdTechWeekly #28 & Community Forum

 
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Sunday, April 29, 4pmPDT, 7pmEDT , 2300 GMT (global times)

 Our weekly round up of Edtech news will be followed this week by a community forum discussion.  The community forum will begin around 8pmEDT (global times)

There have been some heated Edublog postings recently (links below) concerning the virtues and pitfalls of different methods for facilitating community development and discussion within the Edublogospere.  We'd like to host a discussion that addresses some of the questions this discussion has raised.
- How can the edublogging community best help educators keep up with the steady torrent of new educational tools, methods, and resources?
- What are the relative merits of blogging independently vs. being affiliated with a particular social network?
- How do we balance self-promotion and commercial interests with our participation in projects for the common good?  
- What, if any, expectations are there for 'professional decorum' in edublogging? 

  We'll start the conversation with these questions and see where things take us. Everyone is welcome to join in. We're not expecting to come up with any definitive answers, but hopefully some live, interactive audio will make a
worthwhile contribution to the discussion.  


Related Posts:
http://www.crucialthought.com/2007/04/19/groups-and-ed-tech-folks/
http://www.mguhlin.net/archives/2007/04/entry_3087.htm
http://classroom20.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=649749%3ATopic%3A7603
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/04/25/be-wary-of-ning-friend-reque...
http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2007/04/07/starting-to-get-it/
http://www.mguhlin.net/archives/2007/04/entry_3116.htm
http://coordinator2.wordpress.com/2007/04/29/social-networks-for-teachers/
http://classroom20.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=649749%3ATopic%3A4632


Comments

I participated at our local edtech conference this past week.  The reason I bring it up is because the conference offered round table discussions.  It was a conference with over 1000 participants.  It was disappointing to have only a few teachers participate in these F2F discussions.  So as an early adopter, where do you find others?  I played around with Ning and Classroom 2.0 and I wasn't impressed.  Maybe I am spoiled by the edtech folk here at edtechtalk and the Worldbridges network.  I have been following the conversations going on at Teachers Teaching Teachers, 21st Century Learning, and Women of the Web.  I understand it can be difficult for a classroom teacher to find "Web Presence".  It takes time and persistence.  I spent some time this morning and responded to the blogs that you posted.  I am looking forward to doing some more work this year. We all have to share the load.  So, where are we going with Educationbridges Elgg?  I liked the idea of the walled garden.  But even here most people must find it difficult to have individual blogs and then post and be part of a community.  Looking forward to participating on the Community Forum.   

It was me Jose Rodriguez.  Not Anonymous! I CAN engage in an academic discourse :)