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Ethan Zuckerman and Andy Carvin had an early morning chat while at the Berkman Blogging Conference, Blogging, Journalism & Credibility Conference at Harvard. You can listen to it here. And now that your mental juices are flowing you might also want to take a look at Karen Schneider's (Free Range Librarian) take on the conference or listen to her comments.

Have a really thoughtful weekend, and give your brains a holiday....

elderbob
Saturday, January 22, 2005 at 4:25 AM

Privacy Redux » 1 comment

I've been thinking a bit about privacy and whether or not it should be much of a concern for the EFL/ESL instructor. To start with, most of you and/or your students will not be posting information that would have much to do with private issues. If your blogging is limited to issues surrounding the learning of a language, then I don't think there will be a great deal of private material discussed. And there are always the technological tools included in most of the software you will be using that will allow you to keep the post private or least visible only to your small group.

G'day! Posted by Hello
But then I come to Bee's post yesterday that the "best way is to explain what to do and not to do and why." (regarding privacy issues) In other words, Bee takes an approach, that if a student is given the proper information about a thing, they can learn how to best take care of themselves. While, there is much wisdom in what Bee says, I think there is also the implication, that for many students, the instructors efforts at teaching them to blog in ESL/EFL may be the students first exposure to this type of internet narrative. It seems to me, then, that the instuctor may need to model to the students the most appropriate approach regarding blogging and privacy and confidentiality.

With that in mind, I am posting some suggested links to readings on the FAQ page, to help the instructor who wants to use blogs in their classes, to help sort out their own thoughts about how to approach the issue. I hope that all of you will give the matter some consideration and perhaps post your thoughts on how best to handle privacy and confidentiality for your particular situation. If you have additional links to add, please feel free to do so ....this ought to be a constructivist approach to learning.

One last thought. After yesterday's comments on privacy and blogging, I decided I wanted to see just how "public" my blogs were on the internet. Though not an all inclusive method, I "googled" my name to see what came up. I was shocked with the number of references. Not only did I find the Google had listed all of my posts, but I also found where other people had listed my post in their own blogs. It was a real surprise to actually see how even a picture may have attracted enough attention to cause two or three or more folks to comment about it on some other blog.

I hope you all have a great day

elderbob
Thursday, January 20, 2005 at 3:28 AM

Whaaa....it's early. (Some thoughts on Mobcasting) » 1 comment


Whaaaa....it's early here. Looks like the Mac difficulties are being xplored...and bloggers are beginning to blog. I couldn't help but but think about what would happen if all six million bloggers started moblogging their day all at once. hmmmm....

Here is what our own Andy Carvin put together yesterday on Mobcasting.
Mobcasting To me, the political implications are awesome. I hope you dont mind me posting your message here, Andy....




"Thanks" Posted by Hello

Oh, and by the way, the pic above was published using Picasa 2, an amazing little free blogging device you can download from here. (Mac users, you may have to use Flikr instead.)



elderbob

Posted by Hello
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 3:33 AM

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So, I am reading about the difficulty the Macsters are having utilizing the Blogger ware. It brings to the fore one of the on-going difficulties of most things technical...that is proprietary ownership. As long as there are Macs and Non-macs, there will be software confusion. Blogger, bless there little pea-pickin' hearts, has at least made an attempt to bring the Mac-happy family into the Blogger fold. There are some Mac users who have found work arounds to the programming difficulties of this wonderful blogging tool. But for some, that is either too much work or beyond the skill lever, or maybe just more than they want to put up with.

Unfortunately as you can see from this search link, there is not much that can be done about it. One option might be to go to a paid "Ecto Blog" account, which gladly accomodates Mac users. There may even be others that Mac users are aware of, but for some reason, don't talk much about. It even crossed my mind, that Mac users may have decided that "blogging" isn't all it is cracked up to be, and have given up even looking for the software. I am also wondering if open-source PC based software is a better answer than looking for server side software...

If I were a software publisher or an advertiser who uses blogging as an advertising vehicle, I would at least want to assess the potential for blogging by Mac users. Perhaps as a group, Mac users don't ordinarily read blogs or maybe they just dont care to blog at all.

In the end, it is going to be interesting to find out what the Mac users finally settle on.

One last thought before bed. I am a real beleiver in collaborative intelligence...with this many minds (all the folks in the Weblogging Yahoo Group), I suspect that answers will be revealed that individual Mac users hadn't thought about (and the Microsoft folks didn't even know there WAS a problem). So hang in there tonight, Macsters...tomorrow may arrive with a new program to match your machine...or maybe not.

elderbob
Monday, January 17, 2005 at 10:46 PM

Its a brand new day... » 3 comments

Day 1 - Ok, before you go hitting the "back" button, look closely. You have found the "L-derBobEd" blog site. Yes, it looks a lot like a Yahoo page, but that's the point isn't it? Things on the net are not always what they appear to be.

So with that in mind, I am planning to stretch the idea of "blog" as far as I can without breaking the tool. I don't have to teach a class, nor do I care who all reads this, I am just trying out the limits of what can be done with a bit of creative smirk and a little bit of technological savvy. I want to see how much fun, you and I can have here.

Copyright? Well, as far as I can tell, all the appropriate notices have been posted and if I get a letter from Yahoo, then I will take it down.

So let's get blogging.
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