The second assignment of our Blue 2.0 series is to learn how to share videos on our blogs.
It seemed to me that an appropriate video to embed in a blog might be a video about blogs. So, I went to YouTube and did a search for "blogs." Although there were about 702,000 hits, the first one was "Blogs in Plain English" which I had viewed before thanks to an e-mail post to a faculty development discussion list that shared this same video to faculty developers wishing to show a short (3 minute) clip about blogs to faculty.
So, in answer to the question, "What's the big deal about blogs," here's what Lee and Sachi LeFever from the Commoncraft Show have to say.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
My First Blog Post
Welcome to My Old Kentucky Blog!
This blog is part of a ten-week online workshop series conducted by the Teaching and Academic Support Center at the University of Kentucky for staff members in our center and other academic support units. The series is intended to introduce support staff to various Web 2.0 applications that can assist with our own internal communication and collaboration and with our work with faculty and students (additional ways to provide resources and services and being able to suggest creative options for them to use). It's also a pilot for a campus-wide faculty development series to be offered during the academic year. The series is called Blue 2.0 because it addresses Web 2.0 applications and because, at UK, we see blue in everything we do.
The first assignment is to create a blog in order to have a virtual venue to post comments about the Web 2.0 experiences.
This is my first post to my blog or any blog for that matter. Creating the blog was extremely easy and quick. However, I'm not one from whom words flow effortlessly in some stream of consciousness manner nor am I a decent typist. Who knew typing would be a daily requirement? When I was in school, typing was for girls and boys took shop. I hated shop. I still can't use a hammer or saw with any degree of proficiency. I hire it done. If I had taken typing, I'd have a useful skill now and I might have met more girls. Who knew the early 21st century would have personal computers with keyboards? I was told I'd have robots and rocket packs, not some smart typewriter.
So, I don't know how much I might use a blog given the prerequisites. However, I can imagine the following applications. In my faculty development work, I can see posting teaching tips that faculty would eagerly await to receive through their RSS feeds. I can also imagine posting something akin to a case study or a teaching question or comment that would prompt responses. For my Biology students, I can imagine posting answers to questions that might be posed to me through individual e-mails or posting supplements to what's covered in class such as class announcements or additional content information in the form of text, graphics, videos or web links.
We'll see. For now, I can say that I have blogged and I even have my own blog. However, I'm still waiting for my rocket pack.
This blog is part of a ten-week online workshop series conducted by the Teaching and Academic Support Center at the University of Kentucky for staff members in our center and other academic support units. The series is intended to introduce support staff to various Web 2.0 applications that can assist with our own internal communication and collaboration and with our work with faculty and students (additional ways to provide resources and services and being able to suggest creative options for them to use). It's also a pilot for a campus-wide faculty development series to be offered during the academic year. The series is called Blue 2.0 because it addresses Web 2.0 applications and because, at UK, we see blue in everything we do.
The first assignment is to create a blog in order to have a virtual venue to post comments about the Web 2.0 experiences.
This is my first post to my blog or any blog for that matter. Creating the blog was extremely easy and quick. However, I'm not one from whom words flow effortlessly in some stream of consciousness manner nor am I a decent typist. Who knew typing would be a daily requirement? When I was in school, typing was for girls and boys took shop. I hated shop. I still can't use a hammer or saw with any degree of proficiency. I hire it done. If I had taken typing, I'd have a useful skill now and I might have met more girls. Who knew the early 21st century would have personal computers with keyboards? I was told I'd have robots and rocket packs, not some smart typewriter.
So, I don't know how much I might use a blog given the prerequisites. However, I can imagine the following applications. In my faculty development work, I can see posting teaching tips that faculty would eagerly await to receive through their RSS feeds. I can also imagine posting something akin to a case study or a teaching question or comment that would prompt responses. For my Biology students, I can imagine posting answers to questions that might be posed to me through individual e-mails or posting supplements to what's covered in class such as class announcements or additional content information in the form of text, graphics, videos or web links.
We'll see. For now, I can say that I have blogged and I even have my own blog. However, I'm still waiting for my rocket pack.
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