[Icvv] blogs and mo'blogs

[Jo DT]

I've started to use moblogs - blogging using mobile phones - but not yet for
communication between classes, rather as a quick and easy way of allowing
learners with limited computer skills to publish to the web. If anyone's
interested check out my bit of a blog about my moblogging (neglected over
the summer!) here: http://jo-blogs.blogspot.com/  (It might not make much
sense unless you check out the oldest 'archives' first and read from the
bottom of the page to the top!!!)  The blogspot site I used to set up my
blog was very easy to set up but I think you have to install something extra
if you want to upload pictures. There are others which you can add pictures
to very easily as well as text but I'm just back off holiday and can't think
of them off the top of my head. Will contribute more later if Bern/someone
else doesn't beat me to it!

Jo DT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Gaer" <sgaer at yahoo.com>
To: "David Rosen" <djrosen at comcast.net>; <bholland at lawrence.k12.ma.us>
Cc: <icvv at lists.literacytent.org>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 3:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Icvv] Re: Bern Holland ICVV


> -I have hear about blogs but have never used them. It
> might be a nice way to start our communication with
> our partners. Bern could you help us learn how to get
> a blog. I think we will need one for  each set of
> partners.
>
> Also, I will be participating this year as well as
> faciilitating. I am volunteering at a special needs
> school and we will have two classes participating. One
> will be elementary/middle school age and the other
> high school age. The kids are all special needs with
> learning/dicipline problems and the majority come from
> lower income families. Although many of them are
> native speakers of English, they all have language and
> learning problems. I won't be meeting the students
> until October so I would need to start after that. I
> will give a more detailed description of the groups
> after I meet them.
>
> I would like to hook up one class with James Backer if
> possible.
>
> -- David Rosen <djrosen at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Hello Bern,
> >
> > On Thursday, September 9, 2004, at 11:49  AM,
> > bholland at lawrence.k12.ma.us wrote:
> >
> > > How practical would it be to use a Blog rather
> > than or in addition to
> > > email
> > > for learner correspondence?
> > > Bern Holland
> >
> > Thanks for this question.  It's a good example of
> > what I mean by
> > creativity from the participants.  I think a "blog"
> > has a lot of
> > potential.
> >
> > For the benefit of those who may not know this term,
> > a "blog" is short
> > for "Web log,"  narrative or expository, often very
> > informal, web-based
> > writing.  Some blogs I have seen have been
> > first-person accounts of
> > news stories, some have been travel diaries or
> > journals.  There are
> > lots of other uses I bet.
> >
> > Anyone interested in doing a "blog" website or
> > component with Bern's
> > classes in Lawrence, Massachusetts?
> >
> > Anyone -- including you, Bern -- care to add to my
> > (limited)
> > description of a blog and its capacity?
> >
> > Susan Gaer, have you been using blogs?  Has anyone
> > else? How?
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > David
> > David J. Rosen
> > djrosen at comcast.net
> >
> >
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