Blog Purpose & Being Professionally Social
Blogs will be your chance to explain what you understand and show what you have learned. Tying these to your twitter and Paper.li (even Diigo) activity will allow you to have an active role in the development of your understanding of the concepts in the class. Ideally, this will also translate into personal and community development of scientific awareness through your professional use of these various social media.
The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
- Albert Einstein
The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
- Albert Einstein
Twitter
Your twitter account has the potential to be your backchannel to each other and myself, your microblog (brief self-reflections on whatever), evidence of your scientific awareness, an opportunity to contribute to the scientific literacy of the class, and, obviously, the source of your Paper.li.
Paper.li
These newspapers will be sources for your blogs and evidence of your involvement in developing some of the science literacy of the class. You will be both assembling and grading these for each other.
The newspaper's topics or focus will be defined by each person's individual twitter feed, a blog rss feed that you will choose, two other Twitter users you follow (like Neil deGrasse Tyson or Scientific American, etc.), and the last of your choice. You will notice there is an option for how often your paper.li is published when you create it. Remember, you have to be active to have a newspaper; and, ultimately, a grade. Each newspaper's link or embedded image (see sample to the right) should appear on the class' blog page. The link directly to your paper should be your name or twitter handle. If you opt for the embedded image, make sure your name/twitter handle is a component of the paper's name (so I can grade it).
You are the "We" and, together, you are the "communities." You are publishing to the Internet and will be promoting them on Twitter. My advice: take your digital citizenship and contribution seriously.
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Scoop.it
A ready alternative to Paper.li. These tend to be more focused (i.e., fewer articles, less broad in scope, keyword generated) and require a more active role by you: you curate this creation (i.e., you choose the articles, images, videos as well as the potential sources of these components). As with the Paper.li, add a link to the course blog homepage and tout about your creation on Twitter and in your related blog.
(You will notice the video at right is discussing how to use it for research and it cannot replace just 'playing' with it, but it does get you started.) |