Blog/Blogging/Blogger
What is a blog?
- Blog --
(weB LOG): A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The
activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a
"blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people
with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.
Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the
most recent additions featured most prominently. ( from www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html)
- The NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal
Education) weblog census is an
attempt to find as many active weblogs as possible, across all
languages:
In January, 1999 there were 23 known blogs.
Current Status (as of yesterday): [2006]
Likely weblogs 2,869,632---Visited sites we think are weblogs
Anglo weblogs 1,970,366---Blogs that seem to be in English
- Blog Language Breakdown
- Blogging Across the World
What types of
blogs are there?
How easy is it?
Blog
Software/hosting
What can you do with
an educational blog?
- record personal
history/experience
- record class
history/experience
- school newsletter/class
news
- communicate with
students/parents/teachers/administration
- creative writing
- reflective
journaling
- provide up to the minute
community reporter news
- compare and
contrast---(i.e. a group of E.P students and Minneapolis students)
- document group
projects
- a way to turn in
reports
- storehouse of
links
- pen pals (bloggies--my
term just trying it out)
- math journal
- place to examine RSS
feeds---(i.e. BBC World News http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss091.xml)
- current events
- place for publishing
student work
- who am I web (curriculum
webs)
- create and participate in
communities of practice
- provide lessons or access
to digital materials (through links)
- create a forum---using
comment features
- and etc.
Do we have EPS Blogs?
Currently we are examining Community Server as our blogging solution at http://forums.edenpr.org
Your Assignment:
Please create a blog post in the COF Teachers Summer Training Blog.
Do a "THINK--REFLECT--BLOG" on how you might use a blog in your classroom or explain anything that may have resonated with you during this discussion of blogs, blogging, and blogger.
You will need your user name and password to log in. It should be in your folder.
Educational
resources:
EBN---Educational Bloggers' Network
Educational Weblogs---Educational
weblogs, praxis and digital tools.
weblogg--ed: using Weblogs and RSS in
Education--Wil Richardson
Blogwise.com---blog search (keyword,
country)
Blogging Across the
Curriculum---Interactive Digital Design Program at Quinnipiac
University