5 Ways of Bringing Blogs to Canvas

I participated in a Canvas-Zoom session about blogging with Michelle Pacansky-Brock and the folks from CCC-ONE ... it was a kind of preliminary to the Reflective Writing Club which kicks off on January 26. More about that  #CCCWrite experience here:http://write18.onlinenetworkofeducators.org/ And also check out the CCC-ONE Canvas portal; I think it...

Jan 2018

Some thoughts on blogs v. discussion boards

At the Community this week, I saw a really interesting discussion going on about... discussions! Here it is:Soapbox Discussions  I chimed in about blogs as an alternative to discussion boards, and I wanted to say something about that now since I have my students' blog network up and running. Using a blog network allows for all kinds of interaction,...

Jan 2018

Inoreader: Tags, Folders, and Canvas Feeds

I'm getting a little ahead of myself here by writing about Inoreader tags versus folders (this post is part of my InoreaderTutorials series), but I wanted to do this now in order to answer Michelle Pacansky-Brock's questions and to explain what I did in creating this Canvas Feed page for the Reflective Writing Canvas course space: The live feed that...

Jan 2018

Reading Blogs with Inoreader: Sharing Blog Bundles!

I've decided to use this upcoming adventure with #CCCWrite to document some basics of using Inoreader! For more about this great new initiative from CCC@One here: Welcome to the Reflective Writing Club! ... and be sure to check out the CCC@One Canvas Support Portal too. So, today I will start from the perspective of someone who is just starting from...

Jan 2018

Inoreader: Combining Classes

Yesterday I wrote a post here about how I use Inoreader to display the live feed for my student blogs inside the Canvas class spaces:Inoreader: Bringing the power of blogging to Canvas  As I mentioned in that post, I am able to use Inoreader for the blog feed in Myth-Folklore and also for a combined feed that contains both sections of my Indian Epics...

Jan 2018

Inoreader: Bringing the power of blogging to Canvas

Let the (student) blogging begin! It's just Day One of Week Zero (classes don't start officially until next week)... but I opened the class early for any students who want to get a head start and there are indeed 18 students who logged on to the Canvas space to begin, and of those, 12 have created their blogs already.Update: Make that 14. Two people...

Jan 2018

Starting 2018 with the ONE Reflective Writing Club

This is my first blog post here for 2018, and I've chosen a different banner image to use for this year: it is a brain neuron wallpaper image I found online! One of my goals for this year is to learn more about neurobiology, and I figured this image would help remind me to keep on learning. Plus, it is just cool and weird to look at. I got back this...

Jan 2018