K12 Learning 2.0 Course Response

* What do you notice about the genre of blog writing in general? Blogging is very personal, and conversational in tone. The information almost always feels more real than other media formats.

* (How) is blog reading different from other types of reading? How is it similar? It's not so linear, and it's more interactive; however, most of the bloggers in this space do at least conform to most of the standard writing conventions, etc., so the reading feels familiar. :)

* How does commenting contribute to the writing and meaning-making? The ability to comment and respond is where we help create the content and become actively engaged with it. I think the ability to do so can encourage readers to read more carefully.

* Is there a "blogging literacy?" How does blogging affect the way we read and write? Not all blogs are worth reading, so we must be selective and critical in our reading styles in the blogosphere.

* (How) can blogging facilitate learning? The Math blog (scribe) page that we reviewed is a beautiful example of how user-created web pages can really encourage active learning. The expectation here is that each student will summarize a unit of learning for the rest of the class in the class blog, which puts an intense responsibility to not only engage with the topic, but to digest and regurgitate it. Beautiful.

NACOL KeepingPace 2007 Report

This is John Watson's most current "Keeping Pace" report. . .

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NACOL National Primer on K-12 Online Learning

This is a pretty extensive report put together by John Watson, Evergreen Consulting Associates:

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K-12_Online_Learning.pdf (application/pdf Object)

This is the Sloan-C Survey of U.S. School District Administrators from 2007, and "[t]he purpose of this study was to explore the nature of online learning in K–12 schools and to establish base data for more extensive future studies." Interesting stuff.

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Voki

I added the "Voki" dynamic avatar (see right) to the blog today. I think it has some real potential classroom use.