Promote Your Active Student Bloggers: YoungWriter07 Wiki
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Twitter has definitely shifted my networking and online writing habits. A case in point: Since I’m 14 hours ahead of the American east coast, I mentioned how lonely it was to be awake on Twitter when most of my compatriots are asleep. Graham Wegner in Australia, whom I’m recently enjoyed getting to know, answered my lonely tweet with a private email of New Zealand and Australian twitternames to check out. I did. My Twitbin is awake now when I am.
Two days later, “NZchrissy” tweeted a need for some student blogs to direct her students to visit and comment on. I added a few of mine from last year, but within ten minutes on Twitter we ended up somehow saying, in effect, “Hey, let’s just talk and desktop-share with Skype-Yugma and set up an ‘active student blogs’ wiki.” We did, and here’s the result: Young Writers ‘07 on Wikispaces.
Feel free to add your own student bloggers, and visit those already there. The links are listed by age group. Lots of Australians, New Zealanders, Americans, and Koreans there. (Jeff Wasserman, I hope this fulfills my promise to “flog” your HS English class blog in Connecticut.)
By the way, it occurs to me too late that this might be either redundant or needlessly competitive with the Support Blogging wiki. That wasn’t the intention. Instead, we just wanted to bang out a wiki of student blogs we know are active this year, and keep it free of burial under all the adult edubloggers out there.
So give it a visit, bookmark it, link to it, add your own. One-stop shopping for a student blogosphere only wiki, conveniently labeled with “‘07″ to communicate to all that that means still alive this year.
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Hi Clay,
I have the same issue in a smaller way being on the west coast of the US (and I like to stay up late).
It’s amazing how the world is so small, and yet, still so big.
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Sylvia
13 Oct 07 at 3:05 pm
I listed my group, too. Thanks. Their blog hasn’t got much traffic yet this year, and I’ve got an aggregator set up for them with no feeds in it. So this comes along at a good time.
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Doug Noon
13 Oct 07 at 7:25 pm
It’s so exciting to see how young people are exploring was to make use of new web technologies. This is Karel from Yugma. We are committed to contributing to how people “connect on the web.” Education is such an important area for us (our Education Program, work with Moodle partners, etc.). Please let us know what we can do to contribute even more. Just send me suggestions, ideas and feedback to info[at]yugma.com. My daughter (in high school) gives me great feedback. But I’d very much love to hear from younger minds as well.
Thanks!
Karel
http://www.yugma.com
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Karel Lukas
14 Oct 07 at 1:13 pm
Doug, glad it worked. Karel, love Yugma/Skype
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Clay Burell
14 Oct 07 at 3:30 pm