Women’s Technology Network — WTN

Our second tutorial/networking meeting on Friday, 21 September concerned BLOGging. Present were the following participants:
Rose Lemmers, Arlene Cohen, YeKyong Kim, Cat Stoicovy, Matilda Rivera, Jacqui Cyrus and later, Maria Ovalles.

Matilda and I have used BLOGs (weB+LOG) in our classes for a few years, so we coordinated this session about academic uses of BLOGs. Matilda took the lead and gave an overview of BLOG activities and created handouts for us. Participants created their own BLOGs using the GMAIL product, Blogger. The participants worked on their BLOGs before we ended the session around 6:00p.

Are there any questions that you have about your brand new BLOG? One participant, Rose, suggested that we might consider using our new BLOGs to communicate with each other as a way of getting comfortable with our new tools. Let me know if you wish to participate in this way for a few weeks.

Since 4 women were unable to attend this session, would you care to have the next session in October include (a) a catch-up session to create a new BLOG, (b) activities to demonstrate including images and video clips, and (c) examples of academic BLOGs?

For those whose BLOGs have already been created, you might want to read the following article.

Online article re: Blogging as an educational technology:

http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues/october2006/index.html#_Toc148658493

Be sure to copy and paste if the URL wraps to the next line. I look forward to your reply.

In our first WTN meeting, Catherine Stoicovy, Matilda Rivera and I were the attendees. We discussed how to create discussion groups in the MOODLE. After several more attempts, I got the hang of it. All faculty can receive access to accounts to use with UoG classes via Brian Milhoff. An alternative might be MOODLERooms.Org — a place where your account of 4 classes is created, stored, and maintained for $125 per year. If the WTN requests, we can have another, longer session about using the MOODLE for instructional purposes.

Creating and using BLOGs was our next session discussion topic.