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International Edublogging Women's Day 2006, continued:
In case you didn't get a chance to check out all the fantastic women nominated in December's Edublog Awards, here they are again:
from the best individual blog category:
bgblogging, Barbara Ganley
“Since 2001, I’ve been using blogs and multimedia narrative, and now podcasting in my classes at Middlebury College where I am a Lecturer in the Writing Program. I keep bgblogging to reflect on my teaching-with-technology journey, to weave in developments in the field and to entice both peers and students into discussions with me about their experiences with social software and emerging technologies. A couple of recent posts that show the kind of synthesizing I try to do: from October and from September.”
Barbara's also written a great International Edublogging Women post for today, celebrating the women who have influenced her own blogging.
From the best example/case study of use of weblogs within teaching and learning category:
Rhythm in Architecture: Dafne Gonzalez
“Wow! This is really a surprise. I found out about my nomination in the Webheads in Action list. I am Dafne Gonzalez, I am a Full Professor at Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela. The blog which has been nominated was created for my English for Architecture students, ages 19-22, and the Web page of this blended course can be seen at: http://dafnegonzalez.com/id3125-05/ . I created the blog to show the world the wonderful brain maps created by the students for the unit Rhythm in Architecture. It includes their brain maps, links to their blogs, and some audio recordings. I am sure my students will be enthralled with this nomination.”
Assessment by blog: Ethical case studies assessment for an undergraduate business management class: Carol Cooper & Lyn Boddington
“Lyn Boddington is a lecturer in business management within the Commerce Division, at Lincoln University, New Zeland. She specialises in the areas of human resource management and organisational behaviour. Lyn is also interested in improving teaching and learning in large class settings, especially those which have students from diverse backgrounds. Carol Cooper is Manager of Teaching & Learning Services. She has been involved in using technologies in learning & teaching for two decades, as student, teacher and academic support.
This was our first try out with blogs in a class situation so we are amazed and chuffed to be short-listed. The students were taking a 200 level paper (equates to a 2nd year undergraduate class) in business management. The class (160 students) was a mix of domestic and international students, many of whom were second language learners. So as well as providing a useful tool to enable learning about business ethics, we hoped that blogs would provide a way of promoting interaction between students and in particular to enable students to learn from each other.
The students learnt a lot and so did we. What did we learn? Read the paper :-)”
From the best teacher's blog category:
The Open Classroom: Jo McLeay
“My name is Jo McLeay, newly appointed Head of English at my school, an Australian secondary school for girls from age 12 to 18. This year I have had two classes of Year 9 and 10 students (ages 14 to 16) for a semester long Writers Workshop class called Recreating the Writer. I started blogging for myself after some months reading teachers and other educators’ blogs. When I saw the potential and pleasure of blogging I helped the writing classes set up blogs. These classes came into contact with Clarence Fisher’s class in Manitoba, Canada. The rest is history. I think both classes had fun and learnt lots about writing for an audience and about people in different communities.
You can see some students feedback on the project. ”
Edublog Insights: Anne Davis
“My name is Anne Davis. I am an American from the state of Georgia in the USA. My job title is lead information systems training specialist. I work in the Instructional Technology Center in the College of Education at Georgia State University. I am a former elementary teacher who still is fortunate to teach in the public schools. I have done many blogging projects in elementary schools (10-11 year olds) and at the high school (ages 15-17) and university level. (18+) Those projects can be found through the links on my blog. I really think blogs could be a platform to redefine education. I want that redefining to include the voices of students. Writing in my own weblog gives me a way to model the writing process for students and emphasize the need for using writing as a meaning-making process and as a tool for learning. The possibilities are limitless! Two posts that I feel capture the essence of EduBlog Insights are Seize the time! and Lessons Learned.”
From the best library/librarian category:
The Shifted Librarian: Jenny Levine
“Jenny Levine is the Strategy Guide at the Metropolitan Library System, which is the consortial headquarters for libraries in Chicago, USA, and its southern suburbs. In this role, one of her goals is to educate member librarians about new technologies and how they can improve library services. The Shifted Librarian blog is a site that helps librarians understand the coming impact of ubiquitous, always-on internet (and hence ubiquitous, always-on information) on our profession.”
Librarian.net: Jessamyn West
“I’m Jessamyn West, I’m based in Bethel Vermon, USA and I’ve been maintaining librarian.net for the past six and a half years. It started out as a generalist library blog and over time has focused into a library blog about libraries, technology and politics. I work sometimes as a libarian, sometimes as a technology educator and most of the time as an advocate for more sensible use of technology in libraries, and the importance of this in the face of the digtal divide.”
Joyce Valenza’s NeverEnding Search: Joyce Valenza
“Neverending Search welcomes librarians, other educators, any other folks involved with young people to discuss emerging technologies, searching, and the critical skills and behaviors associated with information fluency!
I am the teacher-librarian at Springfield Township High School in Erdenheim, PA and the techlife@school columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Currently I am also a student in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at UNT’s School of Library and Information Science. My research involves the impact of school library websites on teen information seeking. You can visit my library website and my personal site .”
Caveat Lector: Dorothea Salo
“Caveat Lector (”Reader Beware!”) is the backup hindbrain of Dorothea Salo, who was recently hired as Digital Repository Services Librarian (caretaker of the MARS project) at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, USA. The scattered and idiosyncratic array of topics addressed at Caveat Lector includes librarian education, text-markup languages, online-library usability, open-access publishing, amateur programming, and the DSpace institutional-repository platform.”
From the best designed/most beautiful blog category:
Professional Lurker: Lois Ann Scheidt
“Lois Ann Scheidt is a doctoral student specializing in Computer-Mediated Communication at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. She is a Future Faculty Teaching Fellow at the School of Informatics at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (2005-2006). Her research focuses include adolescents in online venues, Human-Computer Interaction, and human subjects’ issues and policies relating to online research. She is a founding member of the Blog Research on Genre (BROG) Project at IU. As part of the BROG Project she is a 2004 EduBlog Award winner for the paper Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs. She was also a 2004 nominee for Best Research Based Blog. Her 2005 nominated weblog design is currently being used as a design example in several New Media design classes.”
The HUMlab Blog: Linda Bergkvist, Digital Artist
“The HUMlab blog is a very important part of HUMlab. We have decided to make this blog our principal English (institutional) presence. The blog and our regular Swedish website are different (with different affordances) rather than just a mirror of each other. It also has an informational, collaborative, curatorial, experimental, archival, and connective function, as well as being almost a physical link to the lab- somewhere where we can try new technologies and ideas out (just like we do in the physical HUMlab). The design of the blog is important, of course, and this is something we will continue to develop. In general, we would like to think of the blog as an adaptable and flexible space.
Check out the HUMlab Women@Tech project and event - it's been running yesterday and today - & you can still join in!
I can't wrap up without a shout out to Rinna Vuorikari of the Flosse Posse - the most kick-ass woman in open source; Therese Örnberg and Stephanie Hendrick from HUMlab; Beth Harris, one of the driving forces behind the excellent SmartHistory; Kathleen Nolan and Vi Macers from the iTeacherEd project; Susan Stiff and Diane Hammond from the YES I Can! Science team; and saving one of the best until last - the wonderful Barbara Dieu.
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