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Advanced Educational Blogging. From a technical perspective, how does all this work?. 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
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Advanced Educational Blogging From a technical perspective, how does all this work?
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
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
Assignment • Think about what makes a good age appropriate post • I’m 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?
blogger vs. bloglines RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS Internet RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS
Packet Switching Network • What is a Network? • What is a Packet? • What is Switching? • What is a Packet Switching Network?
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.
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
Server Protocols • TCP/IP • HTTP • HTTPS • SMTP • POP • FTP
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
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.
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
XML - Data about data <person> <first-name>Peter</first-name> <last-name>Rawsthorne</last-name> <DOB>28-Dec-1963</DOB> <address> <street>Oceanview Rd. </street> <city>Bowen Island </city> <province>BC</province> </address> <email>peter@rawsthorne.org</email> </person>
RSS – Really Simple Syndication <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Family Travels</title> <link>http://travels.rawsthorne.org</link> <description> We have restlessness, we have curiousity, we travel... </description> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:27:20 +0000</pubDate> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.2</generator> <language>en</language> <item> <title>Sailing downwind</title> <link>http://travels.rawsthorne.org/?p=17</link> <comments>http://travels.rawsthorne.org/?p=17#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:27:20 +0000</pubDate> <category>General</category> <guid>http://travels.rawsthorne.org/?p=17</guid> <description> When you are driving in Quebec with a tailwind and the Quebekers treating the Trans Canada like the autobaun you sure make [...] </description> </item> </channel> </rss>
XML / RSS from end to end • http://3484w06.blogspot.com/ • http://3484w06.blogspot.com/atom.xml • view source • http://www.bloglines.com/
blogger vs. bloglines RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS Internet RSS RSS RSS RSS RSS
Rubric categories • Overall • Posts • Multimedia • Audience • Content • Aesthetics • Others??
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 you’re the last person on the list you score the first person on the list.
Aggregators • See pages 10 through 14 of RSS ideas for Educators • Use bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com) DEMO
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