What to with this blog…

This blog is a way to introduce you to participating in the blogosphere. To participate, choose a post you want to add to, click on the title and then leave a comment in the comments box. Please have students test this out too. I will moderate all comments, so nothing will be published until I read it. Note that while you won’t actually be creating your own blog here, by leaving comments you are participating in a collaborative blogging effort and getting a feel for how WordPress, a popular blogging tool, works.

If you are interested in creating your own blog, click here.

Web-ulous Wikis

Check out this wiki http://teachers4tech.wikispaces.com/

I created it so you can use it to practice using a wiki or to help you start one of your own. Let us know what you think!

My Favorite Web 2.0 Tool or Resource

Tell us about your favorite Web 2.0 tool or resource. Check out A Sampling of Web 2.0 Tools to get started.

This Tucson Life

Tell us stories of ordinary and extraordinary life. Post in poems, prose ….

(with a nod to Chicago Public Radio show, This American Life)

101 Reasons Residents of the Sonoran Desert Should Care About Climate Change

Why should we care about Global Warming? Some information to get you started…

• The Basics:
  • Pew Center on Climate Change: Basic Science
  • Pew Center on Climate Change: Facts and Figures (great images, graphs)
• University of AZ links
  • UA Tree-Ring Lab Director Testifies on Climate Change, Wildfires
  • UA Podcasts on Global Climate Change
    
  • UA Conference on Climate Change and Federalism (e.g. Law).
• Activism
  • Focus the Nation
  • Youth Climate Movement Blog: It’s Getting Hot in Here
  • Sustainable Tucson

101 Thoughts on the Primary Season and 2008 Presidential Race

What do you think about year’s primary season and the 2008 presidential race?! Click on comments below to add what you think.

To get you started:

• Clinton Campaign Site
• McCain Campaign Site
• Obama Campaign Site
• Commentary: The McLaughlin Group
• Will youth reshape ’08 presidential race?