Advanced Educational Blogging

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Advanced Educational Blogging

• From a technical perspective, how does all this
  work?

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What are we doing today?

• Feedback
• Review of the assignment
• What is a good post?
• Blogger vs. Bloglines
• Internet (How it works)
• Packet switching network (TCP/IP)
• SMTP, HTTP
• XML RSS
• Blogger vs. Bloglines
• Rubric
• Aggregators

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Feedback (what I learned)

• People liked the activities
• People feel they are learning about technology
• People wanted more visuals and lecture
• People want to know more how-to
• People want to understand blogger vs. bloglines
• People want to get a better sense of where RSS
  fits in all this
• People are ready to add multimedia to their blogs

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Assignment

• Think about what makes a good age appropriate
  post
• Im noticing a lot of text with small font, could
  a grade 2 really read this?
• How is the site going to be sticky?
• What is the point of the blog? And this whole
  assignment?

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blogger vs. bloglines
RSS
RSS
RSS
RSS
RSS
RSS
RSS
Internet
RSS
RSS
RSS
RSS
RSS
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Packet Switching Network

• What is a Network?
• What is a Packet?
• What is Switching?
• What is a Packet Switching Network?

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TCP/IP Activity BEGIN

• Look at the card
• Does it have your name on it?
• YES Keep the card
• NO Pass it on, in any direction.

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TCP/IP Activity END

• If you have a pile cards
• Did you receive them in order?
• Arrange them in order, ascending by packet
  number.
• WAIT

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Server Protocols

• TCP/IP
• HTTP
• HTTPS
• SMTP
• POP
• FTP

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PROTOCOL Activity BEGIN

• If you have cards
• Cross out your name
• AND
• Change the name on all the cards to one of the
  other students name
• WAIT

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PROTOCOL Activity BEGIN

• If you have cards
• Quickly start passing them out
• Otherwise
• Look at the card
• Does it have your name on it?
• YES Keep the card
• NO Pass it on, in any direction.

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PROTOCOL Activity END

• If you have a pile cards
• Did you receive them in order?
• Sort them by PROTOCOL
• Within PROTOCOL, Arrange them in order, ascending
  by packet number.
• WAIT

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XML - Data about data
ltpersongt ltfirst-namegtPeterlt/first-namegt ltlast-na
megtRawsthornelt/last-namegt ltDOBgt28-Dec-1963lt/DOBgt
ltaddressgt ltstreetgtOceanview Rd.
lt/streetgt ltcitygtBowen Island lt/citygt ltprovince
gtBClt/provincegt lt/addressgt ltemailgtpeter_at_rawsthorn
e.orglt/emailgt lt/persongt
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RSS Really Simple Syndication
ltrss version"2.0"gt ltchannelgt lttitlegtFamily
Travelslt/titlegt ltlinkgthttp//travels.rawsthorne.o
rglt/linkgt ltdescriptiongt We have restlessness, we
have curiousity, we travel... lt/descriptiongt ltpub
DategtSun, 18 Dec 2005 012720 0000lt/pubDategt ltg
eneratorgthttp//wordpress.org/?v1.5.1.2lt/generato
rgt ltlanguagegtenlt/languagegt ltitemgt lttitlegtSai
ling downwindlt/titlegt ltlinkgthttp//travels.raws
thorne.org/?p17lt/linkgt ltcommentsgthttp//travel
s.rawsthorne.org/?p17commentslt/commentsgt ltpub
DategtSun, 18 Dec 2005 012720 0000lt/pubDategt
ltcategorygtGenerallt/categorygt ltguidgthttp//trave
ls.rawsthorne.org/?p17lt/guidgt ltdescriptiongt
When you are driving in Quebec with a tailwind
and the Quebekers treating the Trans Canada
like the autobaun you sure make
... lt/descriptiongt lt/itemgt lt/channelgt lt/rss
gt
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XML / RSS from end to end

• http//3484w06.blogspot.com/
• http//3484w06.blogspot.com/atom.xml
• view source
• http//www.bloglines.com/

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blogger vs. bloglines
RSS
RSS
RSS
RSS
RSS
RSS
RSS
Internet
RSS
RSS
RSS
RSS
RSS
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RUBRIC
Beginning Developing Accomplished Score
Aesthetics Aesthetics Aesthetics Aesthetics Aesthetics
0 points There are few or no graphic elements. No variation in layout or typography. OR Color is garish and/or typographic variations are overused and legibility suffers. Background interferes with the readability. 2 points Graphic elements sometimes, but not always, contribute to the understanding of concepts, ideas and relationships. There is some variation in type size, color, and layout.. 4 points Appropriate and thematic graphic elements are used to make visual connections that contribute to the understanding of concepts, ideas and relationships. Differences in type size and/or color are used well and consistently.
Posts Posts Posts Posts Posts

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Rubric categories

• Overall
• Posts
• Multimedia
• Audience
• Content
• Aesthetics
• Others??

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Small groups

• Create rubric categories
• With descriptions
• With scoring
• Write them down
• Prepare for a group discussion
• Every student scores the blog of the person after
  them on the class list. If youre the last person
  on the list you score the first person on the
  list.

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Aggregators

• See pages 10 through 14 of RSS ideas for
  Educators
• Use bloglines (http//www.bloglines.com)
• DEMO

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Exit Activity

• Write on one side of the card the difference
  between blogger and bloglines
• On the other side of the card write explain RSS.
• Leave your cards at the front as you leave.

Remember Next class is in the LAB, E5006