The WordCamp Report

Post has been updated with the Video of this, that was shot by John P., at the bottom.

Alan Levine is podcasting this

EduBlog

Been on the web for years and a blog since 2003 (recovering moveable type user – took 10 minutes)

He “was blogging back too 2000″  Every day when he was on Sabbatical he wrote daily posts.

Works for New Media Consortion

Runs 6 projects in WordPress.

Was asked to talk about the future of education and Wordpress.  Since he doesn’t know all of them

http://tinyurl.com/5ho73u <- Flickr Gallery

http://tinyurl.com/6b32wx  <- Wiki

one Flickr Gallery and one wiki

Stopped from a fast and furious overview on a number of blogs that he’s run across.  Everything for EduBlogs (A WordPress mu installation of teachers) and students using blogs to help them write better papers.

All over the World teachers are encouraging their students to use blogs also.

Some blogs use so many widgets its almost as bad as myspace, some are extremely well designed and put togetehr that he rips apart for ideas.

Most of the “woefully” underpaid (which are most) teachers mainly seem to do this in their free time.

Some teachers are doing Historical Blogging, it draws in their students and is entertaining also. (The Orwell Prize)

Comment Press – Allows you to attach comments to individual paragraphs

2008 Horizon Report

Using WordPress to help go over a book.  Each post is a diffferent chapter.

Home Schoolers are using it to spread ideas.

Fredricksburg, Virginia used WordPress to research and list all Historical Monuments.

Many organizations use WordPress as he backend to run their website.

ScholarPress – Putting together tools, plugins and resources just for Education.  For Course Management System
Donors Choose: Teachers list what projects what they want to do.  And donors can look through and offer support.

Conflicts between having students get active and using blogs, and worrying what might be posted and how much information they might post.

And time ended with Alan Still talking

NOTE: Way too many sites, not all listed here.

Video Broadcast here.

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