Steve Muth

Teachers Teaching Teachers #90: Microblogging our way toward global awareness 02.06.08

Some educators, including some of us who meet regularly on Teachers Teaching Teachers, have begun to find places in our curriculum for microblogging.

“Compared to regular blogging, microblogging fulfills a need for an even faster mode of communication. By http://www.flickr.com/photos/85666927@N00/1921842131encouraging shorter posts, it lowers users’ requirement of time and thought investment for content generation. This is also one of its main differentiating factors from blogging in general. The second important difference is the frequency of update. On average, a prolific blogger may update her blog once every few days; on the other hand a microblogger may post several updates in a single day.” (Java Akshay, Tim Finin, Xaiodan Song, Bell Tseng, Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communitites. August 12, 2007)
 
At the beginning of this podcast we explore microblogging with David Karp, the 21-year-old founder of Tumblr, an interesting new blogging platform that some of us have begun to use. VoiceThread founders, Ben Pappel and Steve Muth join us in this conversation as well. (Read more about microblogging below.)
 
In the last 15 or 20 minutes, (beginning at 31:14) we are joined by George Mayo, an 8th grade teacher in Maryland, and Wendy Dexler, a 3rd grade teacher in Florida, who joined each other at Educon 2.0 to create a Global Darfur Awareness Event which will take place on March 6th. (Read more about this project below.)
 
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Chat Log for Teachers Teaching Teachers #86 - 01.09.08

20:45:33  SusanEttenheim -> EdTechTalk: hi jrolle
 20:54:35  SusanEttenheim -> EdTechTalk: hi mrmayo and karla
 20:55:12  SusanEttenheim -> EdTechTalk: hi aram - welcome
 20:55:18  SusanEttenheim -> EdTechTalk: hi jepcke
 20:55:20  SusanEttenheim -> EdTechTalk: welcome
 20:55:36  AramKabodian -> EdTechTalk: hi susan and everyone...
 20:55:37  jepcke -> EdTechTalk: hi susan
 20:56:01  SusanEttenheim -> EdTechTalk: hi cheryl

Teachers Teaching Teachers #77 - Participation is the Most Important Part

We were joined this week by Joyce Valenza and the co-founders of of Voice Thread, Ben Papell and Steve Muth (and many wonderful teachers in the chat room). In the spirit of producing content that is open to co-creation...

...we invite you add an interesting Voice Thread to this post. Either link to or embed a Voice Thread that would help show how teachers are using this tool in their classrooms or with their colleagues.

Click Add new comment, and show us a Voice Thread that you think is cool!

Thanks.

 

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Chat Log from TTT77

2007-10-31 20:48:07 [Message] SusanEttenheim -> EdTechTalk: hi lee hi peggy

2007-10-31 20:48:41 [Message] cheryloakes -> EdTechTalk: Evening!

2007-10-31 20:48:57 [Message] cheryloakes -> EdTechTalk: I wanted a front row seat.

2007-10-31 20:49:11 [Message] SusanEttenheim -> EdTechTalk: hhi cheryl

2007-10-31 20:49:12 [Message] Lee Baber -> EdTechTalk: Hello!

2007-10-31 20:49:26 [Message] Lee Baber -> EdTechTalk: Thanks for coming Cheryl! Hello Peggy

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