blogs

Have you subscribed to the early childhood education blog yet?
http://centre4.interact.ac.nz/1723/68623 (For participants in the ECE ICT PL programme)

Take the opportunity to check out what the innovative and passionate early childhood teachers and their children and families get up to in a day before heading off into their workshops at ULearn08.

Below is a list of some of the ECE blogs available for public viewing.

Manaia Kindergarten
http://www.manaiakindergarten.blogspot.com

Next Generation Childcare
http://nextgenerationchildcare.blogspot.com

Greenwood Kindergarten
http://greenwoodkindergarten.blogspot.com

Geraldine Kindergarten
http://geraldinekindergarten.blogspot.com

Botany Downs Kindergarten
http://bdownskindy.blogspot.com/

Mangere Bridge Kindergarten
http://mangerebridgekindergarten.blogspot.com

A key component of ULearn07 will be the contribution by participants to the understanding and knowledge being created throughout the conference through the use of Web2.0 applications such as blogging, wikis and social bookmarking.

Delicious is a bookmarking service that is shared on the internet, where links to websites are sorted by tags. To see a full list of all the bookmarked websites related to Ulearn07, visit
http://del.icio.us/ulearn07 or http://del.icio.us/tag/ulearn07

You can add to these lists if you have a delicious account. First create an account, and if you come across a related website or blog entry, add it to your account using the ulearn07 tag. Include a description for others who may know nothing about the site. For those presenting workshop sessions at ULearn it will be helpful to delegates if the resources, links or blogs referred to in your presentation are bookmarked in delicious with the ulearn07, or ulearn tags.

For presenters who do not have their own Del.icio.us account please feel free to use the Conference account to bookmark sites relevant to the conference. To log in - User ulearn07 and Pwd skycity07. Information about how to do this and how to use other Web2.0 applications is outlined in the conference handbook.

There are numerous examples of blogs being used in our schools by teachers and students, and anyone new to blogging is likely to be keen to see what is already happening.

So 12 months ago we established a wiki, nzedublogs, where NZ bloggers can publish links to the blogs, podcasts, and video blogs that they are publishing.

There are now links to more than 30 teacher blogs and podcasts, and more than 30 student or classroom blogs (5 more were added today from Bucklands Beach Intermediate, including a blog used as parent newsletter), so there are many examples to browse. If you or your class are not there yet, it’s a wiki - so go ahead and publish the details yourself. And if you know of other blogs that could be included please encourage the bloggers to add their link to the list.

Hey all you NZ edubloggers out there, want to put a face to the blog?  The NZ Bloggers Cafe is happening this year at ULearn 07.  Come along and engage with other bloggers in some lively debate about life, the universe and everything.  This would also be a great place for ‘budding bloggers’ to come and learn some tips and tricks from ‘blooming bloggers’.  The cafe will be open during morning tea and lunch breaks so come along and join in the discussions. The venue will be advertised in the conference handbook and I am told there will be some aromatic coffee available!

We will need people to help man the cafe during these break times, the idea for the cafe is twofold.  The first is so that we can all get together and meet in person the minds we have been reading.  The second is to be of help to other bloggers just starting out and who would like some tips and tricks.  If you would like to help, please leave a comment.

I would like to kick the cafe off with a targetted discussion during lunch on the first day of conference.  There has already been a suggestion of looking at the issues raised in the Karl Fisch presentations, if you have a topic you think would be a great one to get us started please also leave a comment.

I look forward to meeting my aggregator in person, there are some great bloggers in NZ and I’m sure there are some I haven’t discovered yet.