Web+2.0+TC

//Members: Lee Street, Rob Retherford, Mitch Miller//
 * Blogging - Video Blogging, RSS Feeds, Flickr, Delicious**

We are interested in creating online communities for the classes we teach. Something that is interactive, where visitors feel compelled to comment and become involved. First Hour of All Day Tech Coach Meeting: Group project: Creating Rob’s blog and enhancing Mitch’s and Lee’s blogs. Second Hour: Individual time to work on blogs. ½ hour for feedback and questions. ½ hour for brainstorming, research, sharing and ideas

[|Kathy Shrock's Web 2.0] - List of Web 2.0 tools and resources

__**Tech Coach Meeting 10/24/07**__ We helped Rob set up a blog. He is now up and running with a blog for the Coronado Athletic Department. We discussed the difference between posts and pages as well as security controls for the blog. Different widgets were investigated and links were added to the blogroll. We tried to embed video in Mitch's blog but were unable to do so. We found that only certain video sites were accepted for embedding. Video could be linked but not embeded. Different widgets were also added to his site. When Mitch added a ClustrMap to his blog, his blogroll and links disappeared. We were able to restore these to the blog. Lee added student lessons to his blog, investigated widgets, and was a great resource for the group. Throughout the session we discussed the possible uses and reasons to maintain a blog


 * __Tech Coach Meeting 11/28/07__**

Mitch was able to restore the items to his blog. Progress continues.


 * __Plan for meeting of 02/12/08__**

We will continue to work on Rob's blog. We will investigate how the blog can be of use to the athletic department. Rob will get the chance to choose design elements and widgets to add. We will also look into the use of tags in a blog. Recent articles in Tech/Learning magazine have asked the question "Why do we blog with our students?", perhaps we can discuss this also. Lee also wanted to investigate the possibility of putting his curriculum online in a blog.


 * __Tech coach Meeting 02/12/08__**

Rob is starting a blog for the Coronado Athletic department. We discussed ways to administrate the blog so students can post game articles, scores, interviews, etc. The goal is to make the blog student run. Students who miss class to attend games can make up the assignment by posting on the blog. We investigated several presentation views to find one that allowed large image uploads. Redoable-Lite allowed pictures upto 640 px. Wordpress has a new widget called Vodpod that looks promising for embedding video into the blog. We were able to embed video, add an RSS feed, and links to netrekker.com We explored the difference between categories and tags in wordpress. Tags link you to other blogs of the same tag. Categories allow you to set up categories in your own blog.

3/26/08 Rob R reported success with the blog for the Coronado Athletics page. He has added several pages and is in constant connection with AD and announcements to get up to date information. Rob will put address on school website, personal website, and all coaches website to get the page to the Coronado family.

Lee is going to add gallery section to his blog promoting his CTSO for CTE. Looked at slide show feature in Wordpress.

Mitch's class is excited about posting video and slide show.


 * __Accomplishments 04/23/0__**

We were able to create an active weblog for Coronado Athletics Created environmentally friendly classroom at CDO by using blogs only. Embedded videos into blogs. Using cluster maps in blogs. Generated Community/family interest in programs and classrooms. Learned more about tagging posts.