Keynote Speaker - Randal Pinkett

League Bio: http://www.league.org/2007cit/bios/pinkett.cfm
Randal Pinkett's website: bctpartners.com
Community Technology Centers. as Catalysts for Community Change. A Report to the Ford Foundation.
http://www.bctpartners.com/resources/CTCs_as_Catalysts.pdf

I was motivated by this speaker's emphasis on connecting the school with community. It's a wonderful concept. I immediately had numerous ideas come to mind for applying this idea right here in my own community (both job and neighborhood). Using digital voice recorder to unobtrusively record seniors talking about whatever is important to them e.g. family, history, stories, life, education, their vocations, interests, specialties, etc. It's a wonderful thing to be heard. Having someone take an interest and listen is an enjoyable experience for me and I'll bet it's true for our seniors as well. Seniors living in extended care facilities in particular might enjoy the company. They may also enjoy learning about the new technologies such as podcasts.

Testing the Word function

Well, this looks to be easy enough. Just open MSWord (2007) and choose "New>New Blog Post". It then steps you through a couple of one time only screens that ask you for information specific to your blog. This is so that Word can find your blog for the purpose of posting.

Word asks you:

Your Login and Password

Where you want to store pictures or images. (Blogger does not store images) So you will store them in your www folder.

Specific information about your www folder is then requested:

url: http://facweb.northseattle.edu/yournetid

path: i:/www

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts...

Thursdays, October 18 and November 15, 2007
Please see the "links" heading located in the right hand margin for workshop handouts.

Blog project off wiki

General Info about Blog project:

Jay Keeton points out that Blogging serves a social function and recommends applying a strategy for making people want to comment.

Consider: Who do students or your audience want to hear from? Who will inspire them to comment?

Pamela Wilkins' material link is below.

Sam Bayne recommends that this Thingamablog be used only while on campus. The reason being that to use from home would require reconfiguring both Thingamablog and Filezilla each time there was movement between remote site and local site. I find this to be a bit discouraging as so many of our faculty work from home, they require software that they can use from home.

Sam sets me straight today about the use of a blog. It is a bulletin board only. Others cannot post to the blog. See comments.

New Tack:

Jean Kent has a new Travel Blog and uses a host other than blogger... Off Exploring Blog.

This host may present new opportunities to consider.

Notes from a Blogger Tutorial: Report that it's possible with Blogger to host your own blog or host it on Blogspot for free. Does not however, give any detail about hosting your own. I wonder if blogger lets us use their html, templates, etc. with our own server?

Tom, I checked with Coryl and it is within Copyright permissions to show these tutorials over a projector while teaching a workshop on Blogs.

Materials

• Workshop Handout
• Keeton's_ppt
• Wilkins' material
• Downloading Thingamablog Tutorial (camtasia)
• lynda's blog tutorials
• NSCC Workshop: Blogs 101

• Blogging Across the Disciplines: Integrating Technology

Sources

1. Sam Bayne, Thingamablog
2. Jay Keeton, faculty at South. Faculty Workshop in November '06 "Blogs and Blogging for the 21st Century. PPT handout (scanned as a pdf)
3. Pamela Wilkins, South TLC staff, FAculty Workshop in 2004
4. NeLSC Thingamablog
5. Social Text (via the Webinar)

6. Kayeri Akweks- Blogging across disciplines to Enhance Liberal Learning

   Online Student Services Manager

   State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

Workshops

October 18, November 15