Edward Abbey is quoted as having said, “The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.”
In this world of blogs, wikis, social networking, RSS, and Twitter, I'd like to appropriate the phrasing and say that: the answer to information or content overload is... to create more content.
Why is that? Because in the act of creation, our relationship with information changes. In becoming a producer as well as a consumer, we start to ride the beast instead of just being dragged along by it.
There is no stopping information. The explosion we have seen will pale in comparison, I believe, to what is coming. And being part of its creation will give us both meaning and context.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Celebrating Educational Blogging
On December 17th, 2007 (according to Wikipedia) the phrase "weblog" will celebrate its 10th birthday.
A growing body of educators believe that blogging, as one of the great entry points into the "read/write" web (or "Web 2.0"), is having a transformative impact on education and learning, and that we are at the start of a new cultural and scientific renaissance that will be defined by the participatory, contributive, and collaborative nature of the Web.
Please share your ideas, stories, support, or celebration for the blog in education at http://www.CelebrateBlogging.com, or add your voice here below:
To add your comments, click on the "record" or "type" buttons. (Don't worry--you can practice, erase, or re-record during the process. Clicking the record button does not lock you in!) If you want to leave a video message, you can do so using the buttons with the camera icon. To use a telephone to call in your message, click on the button with the phone icon. To "doodle" on the map, click on the "doodler" (circle surrounded by smaller circles) that shows up once you start recording!
To link directly to the Celebrate Blogging "VoiceThread," you can use the URL http://voicethread.com/share/33484
To put the Celebrate Blogging VoiceThread on your site or blog (large version), use the following embed code:
<object width="800" height="600"><param name="movie" value="http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=33484"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=33484" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="800" height="600"></embed></object>
To put the Celebrate Blogging VoiceThread on your site or blog (smaller version), use the following embed code:
<object width="480" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=33484"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=33484" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="480" height="360"></embed></object>
To put the Celebrate Blogging VoiceThread on MySpace:
<embed src="http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=33484" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="800" height="600"></embed>
A growing body of educators believe that blogging, as one of the great entry points into the "read/write" web (or "Web 2.0"), is having a transformative impact on education and learning, and that we are at the start of a new cultural and scientific renaissance that will be defined by the participatory, contributive, and collaborative nature of the Web.
Please share your ideas, stories, support, or celebration for the blog in education at http://www.CelebrateBlogging.com, or add your voice here below:
To add your comments, click on the "record" or "type" buttons. (Don't worry--you can practice, erase, or re-record during the process. Clicking the record button does not lock you in!) If you want to leave a video message, you can do so using the buttons with the camera icon. To use a telephone to call in your message, click on the button with the phone icon. To "doodle" on the map, click on the "doodler" (circle surrounded by smaller circles) that shows up once you start recording!
To link directly to the Celebrate Blogging "VoiceThread," you can use the URL http://voicethread.com/share/33484
To put the Celebrate Blogging VoiceThread on your site or blog (large version), use the following embed code:
<object width="800" height="600"><param name="movie" value="http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=33484"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=33484" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="800" height="600"></embed></object>
To put the Celebrate Blogging VoiceThread on your site or blog (smaller version), use the following embed code:
<object width="480" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=33484"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=33484" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="480" height="360"></embed></object>
To put the Celebrate Blogging VoiceThread on MySpace:
<embed src="http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=33484" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="800" height="600"></embed>
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