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Which is to say that at least last May it wouldn't. But that's no reason not to try again, though a good deal of what was envisioned here may be happening to better effect at disruptiveTechnology phpBb:
How this Web log might work - There vs. Here:
Emphasis on might. We keep it simple. Below is a sample headline and brief descriptor that might appear as a newsItem on the main page. You click the 'headline' and it takes you to a story on my weblog where I was thinking through some design issues.
Some thoughts on k12bW design
Take a peek at where we're going.
A reader really interested in the content of that message might join the discussion there (if you're a member of that site), even reading this further thinking about the design. Which would keep the newsItem posting on this k-UbW site very short.
What's the point of here? A relatively small group of teachers submit practioner items to a single site. Non-virtual school hallway analogy:
- Karen's walking down to the copy room and glances in Albert's classroom. He's teaching a 3rd. grade class how to do blogChat interviews with I-Search contacts. Hmm - pretty interesting. Might work with the oral interview project that she's starting. She detours into Albert's room for a visit.
- I can't figure out how to get my blog's Discussion Group messages to show up in topics format. I leave a note on the k-u blogWErite digital door, saying, "Halp!" Karen Claxton walks by, reads the note, and leaves a quick reply, telling me to click the first radio button under Prefs / Discussion.
- Will has a sign on his door announcing, "Portfolio Presentations in Progress." Pam goes into his classroom. A 12th. grader is talking about an article entitled 'Boys in Skirts.' She checks with Will and arranges with the student for a blog visit to her 8th. graders.
k-U blogWrite is really just the digital hallway, an informal blog commons. Doors are left open a crack if folks feel like it, an invitation for visits. Doors can stay closed too. (We've all had those days - sign in, grab the mail, hide in your room, go home.) Occasionally a couple of folks will talk for a while in the hallway, but usually away from other people's doors. If it gets really good, teachers generally move into a room/blog of their own, leaving the door open a crack.
The Discuss link under any front page newsItem connects to a very simple board, "off of the hallway."
How to Join:
Pretty simple. Click the Join Now link in the left nav bar. Please, say yes to receiving bulletins. It'll make communication easier. You can always decline later. Once you're a member, you have to Log in and then you can use the Post newsItem link on the nav bar and the Discuss link after postings. I need your address to change you to Editor status, so send me (or another person on the right nav bar) an e-mail saying you've joined. Once you're an Editor, you can post newsItems.
by pat delaney 1/4/03; 4:40:43 AM Discuss
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