Blogging Bravely, SAwrites: Blogging for College Student Educators
Social Media and Blogging for educators
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Siyavula supports communities of educators working together in South Africa. One way in which we believe this could be better achieved is through blogging and social media. We have recently run workshops in Johannesburg and Cape Town for educators to show them how to use these tools to connect and support other educators.
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Contexts abound ...
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All are challenging ...
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Technology's Promise
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Collaboration
Sharing is fundamental to teaching
Effective Sharing
Open everything ...
o p e n p r o c e s s e s – iterative, transparent and collaborative
o p e n c o p y r ig h t l i c e n c e s – freedom to distribute, adapt and enhance
o p e n s t a n d a r d s – formats that enable the freedoms
o p e n s o u r c e s o f t w a r e – freedom distribute, adapt and enhance
Cape Town Open Education Declaration
Required reading ...
Our Work
Increase the library of openly
shared resources (OERs)
Our Work
Identify innovative and engaging
ways of delivering curriculum
Our Work
Support communities and conduct professional development
A simple introduction to:
Social Media and Blogs
Rule 1:
Don't Panic
Rule 1:
Don't Panic
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Too old?
Too much, too fast?
The internet is a dangerous place?
Too old?
Too old?Raymond Chandler started writing in his early 40s after losing his job as an oil-industry executive during the great depression. His first novel The Big Sleep was published in 1939. He was 51.
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Too old?The average age at which Nobel laureates make their prizewinning breakthroughs was recently found to be 48. Harry Kroto, who won the chemistry prize in 1996, made his when he was 46.
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Too old?Philosopher Mary Midgley had brought up three children and worked as a lecturer in provincial British universities for more than 20 years when she published her first book at the age of 56. Later she remarked: "I wrote no books until I was a good 50, and I'm jolly glad because I didn't know what I thought before then." Her most recent book, The Solitary Self: Darwin and the selfish gene, was published in 2010, when Midgley was 91.
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Too old?Ultramarathon runner Marco Olmo started running in his 20s but didn't win his first big title until he was 50. In 2006, aged 58, he won the 166-kilometre Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc – considered one of the world's toughest races – and proved it wasn't a fluke by winning again the next year.
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Too much, too fast?
~ 3 million posts per day
~ 7000+ photos per minute
~ 48 hours of video uploaded every minute
~ 200+ million tweets per day
The internet is a dangerous place?
Anonymity
Invisibility
Stop/start communication
Voices in your head
Imaginary world
No police
Technology & Community & Openness
Dan Meyerwriter, speaker, learner, worker, go-getter
Technology & Community & Openness
Dan Meyerwriter, speaker, learner, worker, go-getter
Technology & Community & Openness
Dan Meyerwriter, speaker, learner, worker, go-getter
But blogging was the cheapest, most risk-free investment I could have made of my personal time into my job. You start by writing down things that are interesting to you, practices you don’t want to forget. And then you start trying new things just so you can blog about them later, picking them apart, and dialoging over them with strangers. Periods of stagnancy in your blogging start to correspond to periods of stagnancy in your teaching. You start to muse on your job when you’re stuck in traffic, in line for groceries, that sort of thing. That transformation has been nothing but good for me and it all began on a free Blogspot blog.
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A simple introduction to:
Social Media and Blogs
Create a gmail account (if you don't have one)
Create a Twitter account (if you don't have one)
Follow:
Participants
Educators
Wildcards
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Passwords
Long – take a phrase and concatenate it
Complicated – mix CaSe, numb3rs, characters!
Write them DOWN!
Better to write down a hard password than make an easy one ...
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Our Work
Support communities and conduct professional development
Siyavula Badges
Laying the Foundation for Significant Change
Our Work
Increase the library of openly
shared resources (OERs)
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Curriculum-aligned
Collaboratively authored
Openly-licensed
For ALL learners
Citizen Cyberscience!
Citizen Cyberscience!
Local Interest
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