Jan26-30

Monday & Tuesday - Blogs - **Educational Issues**
 * Read and respond to 10 educational blogs. Choose at least 3 from the "[|100 educational blogs]" list.


 * Use [|zoho notebook] to track where you've been and what you said.


 * Report to the class with discussion of issues involving education, by sharing your notebook on Wednesday and Thursday.


 * Be sure to click on links and read comments. The value in reading blogs is that by checking the hyperlinks you will either get the other side of an argument or find someone that makes an even better argument.

Sites:
 * Arthus, a 14 year old talks educational technology - http://newlyancient.com/


 * **Steve Hargadon - http://www.infinitethinking.org **


 * Cool Cat Teacher - http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com


 * Steve Dembo - http://www.teach42.com


 * Bud the Teacher - http://budtheteacher.typepad.com


 * Will Richardson - http://weblogg-ed.com/


 * The Open Classroom - http://theopenclassroom.blogspot.com/


 * **Jeff Utecht - http://www.thethinkingstick.com/ **


 * **Read/Write Web - http://www.readwriteweb.com/ **


 * **Wes Fryer's Speed of Creativity - http://www.speedofcreativity.org/ **


 * Learning is Messy - http://www.learningismessy.com/blog/


 * iJohn Pederson - http://www.ijohnpederson.com/


 * **2¢ worth - http://davidwarlick.com/2cents **


 * **Adventures in Educational Blogging - http://ssedro.blogspot.com/ **


 * Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth - http://www.andycarvin.com


 * Kevin Honeycutt's Driving Questions - (Actually these are podcasts, not a blog.) http://web.mac.com/khoneycuttessdack/Kevin/Driving_Questions_Podcast/Driving_Questions_Podcast.html


 * **Ewan McIntosh - http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/ **


 * **MIguel Guhlin - <span class="wiki_link_ext">http://www.mguhlin.org/ **


 * **Scroll down the page for the list of the top 50 Educational blogs. <span class="wiki_link_ext">http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2009/01/13/determining-the-top-education-blogs/ **


 * **Favorite Education Blogs of Jay Mathews of the Washington Post (Scroll through the pages)- <span class="wiki_link_ext">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/07/AR2008040700387_2.html **


 * **2008 Award Winner Finalists (Scroll down to the list) - <span class="wiki_link_ext">http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-education-blog/ **


 * A list of 9 more blogs - <span class="wiki_link_ext">http://www.junaldpascua.info/2009/01/top-educational-blogs.html

**Wednesday & Thursday - Take the Community Walk and Discuss Blogs**
 * And if that's not enough: 100 educational blogs - <span class="wiki_link_ext">http://oedb.org/library/features/top-100-education-blogs

Each student will share their markers in Community Walk. Each student will pick one of the blogs they commented on and discuss it with the class.

Share Blog posts.
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Discuss Cell Phones in Education.