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October 03, 2006


Paul Allison

Rap, Genre, and Podcasting: Running Vlog

http://paulrallison.livejournal.com/2338.html








Come me with me for 20 minutes of my run on the Palisades. I begin by talking about one of my favorite podcasts, "Breakdown FM w/ Davey D" - http://www.odeo.com/channel/3681/rss - I describe why I like this podcast. Then I talk about the surface errors that are showing up on my students' blog post on "Youth Voices" - http://youthvoices.net - This extends into my thoughts about what it would look like if students were really being taught writing through genre study. Finally I talk about using Google Reader as an aggregrator for my students, kicking off the use of listening and responding to podcasts.

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October 06, 2006


Paul Allison

Individual Instruction at East Side Community HS, NYC

http://paulrallison.livejournal.com/2849.html






Several snapshots of my New Journalism classes on October 5, 2006. I'm finally getting to the point where students can (even though sometimes they choose not to) come to their computers and get to work. I can act as a coach, teaching them the skills they need to be bloggers.

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October 08, 2006


Paul Allison

Accountability, Design, and Rollout

http://paulrallison.livejournal.com/3130.html






Join me on a Saturday afternoon on a long Columbus Day weekend. This is my preliminary thinking about what I need to do next to track what my students have been doing (accountability), set up communities within an elgg to make it easy to check their work and tinker with the overall design of my classes, and finally to think about what to introduce next to my students. I want them to begin to be readers of blogs using Google Reader.

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October 11, 2006


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Another week, another blog post

http://paulrallison.livejournal.com/3411.html






After the long Columbus Day weekend, students at East Side Community High School returned to my New Journalism classes to begin this week's blog post. They started by freewriting in about a variety of interesting topics. I just asked them to talk about what they were doing.

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October 22, 2006


Paul Allison

Autumn Assessment (Part 1 of 2)

http://paulrallison.livejournal.com/3729.html






Come with me on a run in the Pallisades on a beautiful Autumn afternoon. Think along with me as I prepare to do my grades for this first marking period. How do you give a quantative value to the first six weeks of a blogging project? I break it down into looking at ten sections of the Profile that students should have written, and at five aspects of each of the blog posts that I am expecting students to have. At the beginning of this I explain how I've set up communities for each of my high school classes. At the end I tell a story about meeting three Juniors in the cafeteria. It's a story about technology, literacy, and the young. This is part 1 of 2.

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Autumn Assessment (2 of 2)

http://paulrallison.livejournal.com/4083.html






Come with me on a run in the Pallisades on a beautiful Autumn afternoon. Think along with me as I prepare to do my grades for this first marking period. How do you give a quantative value to the first six weeks of a blogging project? I break it down into looking at ten sections of the Profile that students should have written, and at five aspects of each of the blog posts that I am expecting students to have. At the beginning of this I explain how I've set up communities for each of my high school classes. At the end I tell a story about meeting three Juniors in the cafeteria. It's a story about technology, literacy, and the young. This is part 2 of 2.

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October 27, 2006


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New Journalism at East Side Community High School

http://paulrallison.livejournal.com/4222.html




More from my high school classes. Watch my students compose writing, insert images, and record podcasts for their blogs at YouthVoices.net

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October 29, 2006


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Whose Assessment Is It Anyway

http://paulrallison.livejournal.com/4527.html




Join me on the Palisades for another running vlog. In this one I reflect on my week that was filled with report cards, family conferences, and worries from my colleagues and my principal about how many of my students didn't pass. How do you assess blogs?

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October 31, 2006


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Blogging at East Side Community High School

http://paulrallison.livejournal.com/4815.html




The week after the first report cards, and I'm pretty happy with how students are finding their own topics to write about in their blogs on Youth Voices -- http://youthvoices.net.

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