1. What program did I use for the presentation? Apple Keynote ‘09.
2. Does anyone use Blogs for meeting minutes/notes/documentation? – We use wikis for this purpose as it follows more of a document model.
3. How do you pay attention AND send/read messages at the same time? – It’s a skill some have developed. I can’t say it’s for everyone.
4. Musicians+technology=rulers of the world! – Yes we are Howard.
5. I’m from northern Ohio. Where did you go to school? Avon Lake High School, west of Cleveland.
6. My literature class student’s work blog:http://mrsberkley.blogspot.com/ – thanks for sharing your work with students.
7. I’m going to use this tool at a presentation in October (speaking of Today’s Meet).
8. I want to encourage my principals to blog about school happenings to get them involved as well as the teachers. – great idea!
9. Is there a quick guide/read to getup and going? – You will find several blogging videos at our Goochland blog server for teachers.
10. Can I post homework assignments on my blog? Yes – either as text, or you can upload attached files (PDF, etc.). Also look into Scribd.com that hosts your PDFs as embeddable Flash paper documents.
11. Hmmm, little confused, how does this qualify as a BYOL session? – You are encouraged to follow the example blogs as they were presented.
12. When my IT person says, “Why do you want a blog when we use Moodle?” What will my argument be? – One is private (Moodle), although there are ways around that. I would say the choice of tool is really dependent upon what your goals are. Blogs are real, authentic tools. But they may not be right for your needs.
13. Doesn’t moodle have a blog feature built in? – Yes, but it isn’t very feature rich.
14. Ning is also a great blogging site. Our school district uses it. We use it too, but more as a fun, social space for teachers. It does have blogs.
15. blogger is free – why pay? You can do more when you host the blog yourself, in terms of customization of the look, etc. If it’s on your own server, you aren’t competing with thousands of other blogs on that site (speed), but it depends how good of a host you’ve contracted with in terms of their bandwidth. Another reason may be school filtering – at many districts, sites like blogger or wordpress are banned.
16. The biggest concern is, “Is anyone actually reading this?” – I am, Mike C.
17. Yes. I have posted it as a PDF in the NECC presentations/handouts area. Search for my surname.
18. is todaysmeet.com free? Yes.
19. do you have anyone to unblock sites for you on your filter? Yes, all of our teachers can override the filter.
20. what is your process when creating a blog for a new teacher? Do/can tey do it, manually by you, integrated with network account? Wordpress has self-signup. I limit it to only accept new sign-ups from our email domain.

Thanks for those who participated today!

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