2. Writing for Reconciliation Using the Tools of the 21 st Century A workshop looking at Online Publication: Blogging ePortfolios Online Journals RSS Tagging

3. A New World Digital commonfolk are online and publishing, not for profit, it seems, but for the love of it, the joy of writing, and to compete for an audience that is, indeed, listening and commenting.

4. How About You? Have you ever blogged or even vlogged? Have you ever created an online ePortfolio? Do you access information through an RSS feed? Do you know anything about del.icio.us?

5. Blogging Web Logs (Blogs) are online diaries of thought or experience. Published By date with the most recent at the top With comment With links to other blogs and sites With hypertext, images, and categories

6. Blogging (2) Blogs are Online, you don’t blog to CD though you could blog to a network. Therefore you need a special tool to create one. There are a couple that are known as being easy. One of those is http://www.blogger.comhttp://www.blogger.com Another one with more features is http://wordpress.com/ Learn more about blogging at: http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~set31

7. ePortfolios Educause Quarterly recently published an article that began with these stunning words. “Webfolios may have the most significant effect on education since the introduction of formal schooling. When fully matured and implemented by capable professional educators throughout every discipline in an educational institution, webfolios promise a viable alternative to current high-stakes testing, which focuses education on test-taking rather than teaching and learning.”

8. ePortfolios (2) Collection of artifacts Validate education, training, skills, and experience Individual or group driven Portable, preservable, and extensible Lifelong and lifewide Building Effective Electronic Portfolios Part I http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~set32http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~set32 Part II http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~set40http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~set40

9. RSS RSS is Really Simple Syndication, really! "The mainstream media rejoins the people.” – Jeff Jarvis RSS is a little like a newsie. It delivers the information you want to your front porch (I.e., computer desktop) A doorbell rings, and your news, not just any news, but “yours” has arrived. http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~set39

10. RSS (2) http://www.rssreader.com

11. And Others Folksonomies (Freetagging)  http://del.icio.us/ http://del.icio.us/  http://www.technorati.com/ http://www.technorati.com/ Chats and Chatrooms Online Journals Photo Galleries  http://www.flickr.com http://www.flickr.com And, of course, exchange mechanisms

18. http://writingforreconciliation.blogspot.com

19. Example Blog http://letters-and-surveys.blogspot.com Example ePortfolio http://elgg.net/betsyd