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There is a podcast tonight over at Ed Tech Talk with Teachers Teaching Teachers. The topic tonight is Elgg. They’ll be discussing the personal learning space and YouthVoices, as they’ve been used in the classroom. I won’t be listening to the podcast (for obvious reasons) but there is a live chat, as well, running concurrently. The podcast begins at 9, and I’m assuming the chat does, also.

As for blogging with my students, right now I’m in the process of trying to get a key to the computer vault, since the classes I want to blog with are during zero and first periods. I’m in the building before any of the administrators (sad but true…), so I need access to the vault. My students are in the drafting stage of their personal essays, which are due October 6th. After that, we will begin our research papers, which are due before Thanksgiving. My idea is to use blogging as a way of tracking their online research. I wonder if they can do research papers with sources based entirely on the web. There’s wikipedia, which for the most part, is pretty reliable and would be a good tool in teaching my students how to look for credible sources. They can use online periodicals, other blogs, and Google’s book feature, maybe? I have some more thinking to do about this. My goal over the next few weeks is to develop a plan for the research paper unit that outlines which Web 2.0 tools I want to introduce to my students, the structure of the blogging and which blogging client I want to use for this purpose.