Will Richardson Continues Educational Blog Lecture
Will Richardson tells our Blog2Learn teachers:
Kids need models. You should be their model by blogging, if you want them to blog. You should have your own personal reflective space. That is kind of scary. There is transparency there. You have to think carefully, if you identify yourself. 
Shows us The Thinking Stick. A teacher who looks at his blog as professional development. Every blog starts with reading. Richardson believes you should read first and then blog.
Google search item rises to the top via reputation, which means how many links to the site and the quality of links.
Most bloggers are filters.
Richardson: I never read anything any more without asking is this something I should write about it. You find something interesting, you write about it and then you think about it outloud at the site.
Reading is validating where the information is coming from, seeing how the idea is distributed, skimming–it is much more complex that linear reading in a book.
You have to read an article in The New York Times on the future of books. “What Will Happen to Books?”
Richard: My biggest fear is that it is now very difficult for me to sit down with a linear text any more. I need things to click.
Here is Will Richardson’s wiki: webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com
He says:
Welcome to the wiki site for Will Richardson’s presentations. Think of this as a “Virtual Handout” (a name humbly “borrowed” from David Warlick). You are encouraged to add your own links and thoughts by clicking the “Edit this Page” link on the toolbar above.
He just dialed into George Siemens who blogs at Connectivism Blog on Skype. Turns out Siemens was sitting in a cafe in Europe getting ready for a conference. Any teacher he said could do the same in their classrooms.
You can reinvent what you do in the classroom. Doc Holliday former principal says we have been conditioned to do as you have been told.
Richardson: incorporate these tools into your own experience and then use them in the classroom. I have never learned more than I have from using the tools, by joining the conversation.
Schools firewall is not built on pedagogy it built about fear and risks analysis.
Even in the long tail there are communities of interest where people are having conversations.
