Today I am working on a lab for my new class, CEP811 Adapting Innovative Technologies to Education. I was tasked with describing the differences between traditional web pages and blogs.
In my experience, web pages are depositories of information. There might be facts, examples, links to other resources, and of course advertisements. It used to be that only geeks like me who knew how to program in HTML code could actually create and maintain a web page. Today though, anyone can put up a simple web page using tools like Google Sites, or others.
Blogs on the other hand are much more reminiscent of the paper journals of my youth. Now most of us rough and tumble boys would never have thought of keeping a journal, but all of our sisters and female cousins did. It was, and blogs are today, a collection of our thoughts, feelings and even ramblings. Sometimes they contain our hopes and dreams and even though a fact or two might creep in, they are not primarily for passing on information about things... but our feelings about people and places.
Even I, in my efforts to chronicle my journey through the Masters of Education program, find myself keeping a Blog... There are not many deep, dark secrets being revealed, but there is some link to the victories and struggles along this new journey.
Monday, October 22, 2012
CEP810 and ePortfolio SIG
Wow.. it seems like yesterday we were starting CEP810 and now we are 7 weeks into the course. I have been so busy that I have not had the opportunity to post any updates. During this course I have been involved with a great SIG group that has been researching ePortfolios and their use in the High School environment. This has been an eye opening experience and we have really created a great resource for someone looking to institute ePortfolios in their classroom. I am very proud of it. I will have a post next week with a link to the presentation, which is in the format of an ePortfolio itself. But for now, I wanted to share a link to our Diigo group as we have consolidated about 50 great links to resources, articles and YouTube videos on the subject. Jump over and take a look...
http://groups.diigo.com/group/810-e_portfolio
http://groups.diigo.com/group/810-e_portfolio
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