Blogs...
According to David Jakes, a web 2.0 guru, "A blog is short for Webblog. Basically, it is a platform for personal publishing". A variety of tools can be imported into a blog is web based. Another neat concept about this tools is that people can subscribe to your blog and be contacted when you update your blog. The possibilities for integrating these tools into the curricula are limitless. This page attempts to shed some light these tools and provide some resources for the tools and their applicability in the classroom and beyond.
Ideas/Thoughts for Blogging:
- Boggled by Blogging? David Jakes has complied some great info on blogs here.
- More info on blogging in Education can be found here.
- This link to a tech learning article, Writing with Weblogs by Kristin Kennedy includes information regarding assessing blog writing.
- Consider the policies that will be affected by blogging
- Teachers should establish a code of ethics for using blogs with students in the classroom. When designing your blogging ethics with students, be sure to include the following
- identity protection measures
- teach students never to publish personal identifiers about themselves
- etiquette for responding to comments
- standards for writing in the blog-(i.e. no shtcts on wds; no abbrev. like what's used im)
- be very clear about expectations of use
Ideas and thoughts about Blogs
Educause also has some thoughts blogs. Check out these links:
7 Things that You Should Know About Blogs
Blog Samples:
Subscribe to Blog Feeds
Want to learn more about great web2.0 tools and how to integrate them? Follow these experts in their conversations with the world on their blogs: Alan Levine, David Warlick, David Jakes, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
Play in the Sandboxes:
Blogs: Poynette Playground
Create your own with my favorites:
21Classes
PBwiki
Blogger
Find More Blogs, Tags and Wikis at this place:
Technorati is a resource to conduct real-time searches for user-generated media (including blogs) by tag or keyword. Also provides popularity indexes.
Gather Your Feeds in these places:
Bloglines
Pageflakes
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