1. The 21st-Century College Classroom Using Blogs and Digital Stories to Foster Active Learning and Collaborative Learning Communities Using Blogs and Digital Stories to Foster Active Learning and Collaborative Learning Communities A Conversation with Barbara Ganley of Middlebury College and Ideas Unleashed! at the Vermont State Colleges

2. Writing Exercise What are your pedagogical goals? What challenges do you face in your teaching? How does technology intersect with these goals and challenges? What are you hoping to discuss today?

3. Setting the Stage The Net Generation Teaching Approaches New Literacies Subject Matter

4. The Net Generation: The Experiences & Expectations of Digital Natives

5. Personal Academic Integrating the Selves Purpose: Dialogue & Expression Audience: Self and Community Mode: Text: Staccato, dynamic Rip & Remix MySpace, YouTube Purpose: Knowledge Delivery Audience: Authoritative Other Mode:Text: Fossilized, formulaic discourse Word, Powerpoint The Writing Divide

6. Expectations: Balance “College students want faculty members to use information technology, but students nevertheless hunger for the human touch in courses as well, according to a new survey of 18,039 freshmen and seniors at 63 institutions.” Chronicle of Higher Education 11/05Chronicle of Higher Education

7. NEW LITERACIES Network Media Information Online

8. TEACHING APPROACHES

9. Factory-Model of Education

10. RELATIONSHIPS Learner Teacher Work World

11. Learning as a Social Activity

12. LEARNER AS A NODE IN A NETWORK

15. “Graduates can’t communicate well, they can’t work in teams, and they can’t think creatively.” Sir Ken Robinson in Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative

16. Can Social Computing Help Us To Negotiate These Challenges?

17. Learning the Discipline Learning New Literacies

18. Doing the Discipline Learning the Discipline Learning New Literacies

19. Blogging

20. Motherblog Connections: To the Course Course Portal Archives

21. Motherblog Connections: Informal Sharing

22. Motherblog Connections: To the World of Experts

23. Individual Blogs

24. Modeling Through Comments

25. Portfolio of Student Work

26. Reflective Practice -A student’s Blog

27. Blogs Invite Multimedia

28. Digital Stories

29. Podcasting & Audio Readings Summaries

30. “Blogging gives me a sense of infinity. The curriculum relies on ritual and structure, but with blogging, this curriculum is constantly expanding.” Student comment

31. Motherblogs and Learning Communities Belonging & Purpose-- Efficacy & Authenticity Intensifying of Classroom Experience-- Deep Learning Student-Centered, Constructivist, Connectivist Learning

32. I just want to add that after reading these comments I thought of one more blogging benefit. Last week I was on my blog, reading one of Megan's comments about landscape. A few minutes later, I travelled over Barbara's blog to take a look, and Megan had commented below my comment, this time about the idea of blogging. In a period of 10 minutes, I'd met Megan in two different contexts, and had "conversations" with her that, I doubt, we'd have had face to face. There's links on the internet that don't exist in real life. It's natural on blogs to think. It's not so natural in day to day life. -A Student’s Reflection

36. You’ll find me blogging my teaching and research at bgblogging mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblogging You’ll find me blogging my teaching and research at bgblogging mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblogging