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    1. Blogs in Education Instant Pubishing of Ideas For “Everyman” Ellen Robertson, facilitator HHH PDP
    2. What’s a Blog? Yak Yak Yak and Yadayadayada ?
      • Originally were “web logs”
      • In simple sense, similar to online diary
      • Different from regular web page
        • Not static
        • Short--invite viewers to look at other resources
        • Updated often
        • Comprised of info, links, reflections, conversations (comments), photos, graphics, videos, rss feeds, podcast feeds
        • Engage readers with ideas, questions, links
    3. What Are the Subjects of Blogs? “ there are blogs about dogs and frogs even people who wear clogs there are flying blogs and frying blogs, crying blogs and dying blogs You get the idea….blogs are hot!” ~Will Richardson Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts Most Read Blogs: http://www. bloglines . com/topblogs
    4. What’s a Blog?
      • Educational blogs geared to teachers:
        • Links to ideas, other educational sites, lesson plans, conferences, pedagogy, philosophies, other ed blogs
        • Space for responses:
          • For collaboration
          • Exchange of ideas
      50 million blogs tracked in July 2006 100X 3 years ago
    5. Blogs Geared to Educators to Explore
      • A blog by a teacher discussing a wikispaces project
      • A blog by Web 2.0 guru Will Richardson http: //weblogg-ed .com/
    6. Blogs Geared to Educators to Explore
      • Take a look at these blogs by different types of educators: edublog Award winners http://www. incsub .org/awards/ http://www.teachers.answers. com/main/teachers_weblogs .jsp Google blog searcher: http://search. blogger .com/
      • WHAT are they writing about?
      • WHY are they publishing?
      • Are outsiders commenting?
      • What is the WORTH of such sites?
    7. Instructional Use of Blogs
      • Difference between journaling and blogging
      • Develop language skills
      • Can promote critical thinking
      • Promote creative thinking
      • Increase exposure to quality information
      • Promote reflection and social interaction
      • Can be used as reflection journals, class portals, online filing cabinets, portfolios, websites
    8. Instructional Use of Blogs
      • Post prompts for writing
      • Provide exemplars of class work--celebrate and display student work!
      • Provide online readings for classes to react to and comment on
      • Gather and organize internet resources
      • Post photos and class activities
      • Literature circles
      • Online book clubs
    9. To understand the potential of blogging as a teaching and learning tool, become a blogger! (for today, at least!)
    10. Open a Personal Blog Account
      • For a free personal blog space, go to Blogger.com (take the tour)
        • Investigate blogging by developing a personal blog (at least 3 entries) on a topic that you might post to on a consistent or interval basis such as: lesson topics, restaurant reviews, places visited/to visit, recipes, what makes you laugh, quotes/thoughts for inspiration, baseball/sports musings, LI attractions, ANYTHING! But……
    11. Use Discretion in Blogging
      • Information posted today may have a shelf life of many years
      • A personal tidbit about blog retention-- found this “artifact” when logging onto the new blogger.com
      • A blog is not a place to lash out at others or post reasons why you are not happy with your job!
    12. Free Blog Tools For Classes
      • *For class blogs in a safe, private space, look at class blogmesiter .com
      • You’ll need to discuss appropriate blogging policies with your class, so here is a great resource:
          • http: //budtheteacher . com/wiki
    13. How do I remember where this stuff is?
      • You’ve seen all these great blogs and are now suffering from “infowhelm”! HOW do you remember WHERE this great info is and how to RETURN to it?
      • Use RSS feed technology!
    14. What are RSS Feeds?
      • RSS stands for R eally S imple S yndication
      • A technology that helps you subscribe to frequently updated web content like blogs, news feeds, podcasts and vodcasts
      • You then use an aggregator to collect all these subscriptions in one place
      • Aggregators can be software or web-based
    15. Search and Subscribe
      • Get a page at bloglines .com to store all your RSS feeds; once you do this, all you have to do is go to that page once in awhile to read ALL your news in one place!
      • Find some RSS feeds
        • A great RSS feed search engine: http://www.search4rss.com/
      • “ OK, I found some great blogs and news sites I want to keep track of---how can I do this automatically?” Use your bloglines account!

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