CSCC Blogging Class 11/27/07

The beating heart of the living web

Blogosphere
Technorati now tracks over 112 million blogs
The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months
175,000 new blogs created every day or 2.5 blogs every second
Bloggers make over 1.6 million posts per day , or over 18 updates a second.

Blogs are networked conversations
Entries are in reverse chronological order
Commenting
Hyperlinks and media
Archiving
Categorizing
Search
Sidebars: ‘blog rolls’ and other references and content
RSS subscription and email
Tagging
Blogs tracked in search engines such a Technorati and Google Blog search
Trackbacks

Evolving metaphor of the web
Library ….. Web page
Information highway…. “Go to it” web
Web as an environment, a conversation
“ Come to me” web
“ Read/Write Web” or “Web 2.0”

Authenticity is the new black

First of 95 Cluetrain theses… 1. Markets are conversations . 2. Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors. 3. Conversations among human beings sound human . They are conducted in a human voice. 4. Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived . 5. People recognize each other as such from the sound of this voice. 6. The Internet is enabling conversations among human beings that were simply not possible in the era of mass media.

Computing for….
Productivity?

Computing for….
Personal creativity and communication!

Blogging for….
Journal
News
Punditry
Knowledge management
Customer relations
Personal learning environments
Networking

Blogs are a “native”medium to students

The only certainty is change “ Did you know 2.0” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

Technology is a force for change and tool for keeping up. “ Did you know 2.0” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Rapid innovation, global labor and knowledge
Multiple careers, continuous lifelong education
Digital Natives displace the immigrants

Blogs make learning public
Public reflection with feedback
Publishing vs. “turning it in”
Crafting of identity
Record of learning: Portfolio
Student owns the content
Continuous learning: “Writing stops, blogging continues.”
Teaches responsible and ethical behavior
Blogging and RSS encourage students to build their own learning resources, helps them to be “specialized” and “adaptive”

Blogs for educators
Demonstrates professors passion for subject to students, encourages collegial dialogue
Professors can immediately publish to a community of peers, skip over the editorial boards of journals
Create community among colleagues, reflect/discuss big issues

Blogs in education
Instruct
Student Institution Faculty Learning Community Transparent, responsive, reciprocal, accountable, individual, collective

Education Examples Creative Writing Class Nursing Mathematics Library Blogs

CSCC Blogging Class 11/27/07

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