I was interviewed at the ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session, which is an EDUCAUSE initiative. Here is the podcast of that interview, which is a summary of the presentation I made at this event. Materials from my presentation (and all the other presentations as well) are now available. There are a number of other podcasts from this event available as well; look for the ELI07netsavvy tag.
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Blog Action Day
Here is an interesting event: Blog Action Day on October 15, 2007. This is an international event. I plan to participate with a post related to technology and the NC State campus environment (probably recycling hardware or something along those lines).
I don’t think blogging has reached a critical mass yet at NC State, but I think that WolfBlog software will evolve (and improve) and more students, staff and faculty will engage in blogging (either as readers or writers or both). As blogging becomes much more mainstream, I’m wondering if we could do something like this on our own campus.
More on Da Chen Blogs
I’ve been reading the various blogs related to Da Chen’s visit to our campus. Many students on campus (including at least FYC and ALS students, and likely others) are given a writing assignment based on Da Chen’s work. The blog titles chosen for many of these blogs are Da Chen specific. Here are some examples. (And, if you visit each you will see that the vast majority have only the one post.) My favorite is DaChenGoState; never miss an opportunity to show that school spirit!
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/ChenDa
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/chenreading
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/dachenals
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/ALS103abl
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/wcotm
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/cotm
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/dachen101
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/DaChenGoState
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/DaChen15869
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/chencotm
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/dachencom
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/summerreading
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/Reading
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/myvalues9
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/DA
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/ValuesALS
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/dachenqnn
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/colorvalues
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/dachenbmmmallar
http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/valuesoflife
This catches my attention because of my recent interest in the concept of teaching our students to be “net savvy” (as well as our staff and faculty). Will these students use these blogs for other purposes? Do they not understand how to set up a blog? Maybe they understand and are only blogging for this one course requirement and don’t intend to use the blog again.
I should note that are a number of other posts on blogs that have more traditional blog names (usually the name or unity of the student). But the number of Da Chen-specific blog titles really caught my eye and has me wondering just how much our first-year students understand blogging.