Blogs in Education

Topics What is a blog Blog hosting services Examples of educational blogs Privacy (FERPA) More about blog hosting services

What is a blog

Blog hosting services

Examples of educational blogs

Privacy (FERPA)

More about blog hosting services

What is a Blog? A website containing regular entries Created and maintained by anyone on any topic from anywhere The blogosphere is an interconnected community of bloggers According to Technorati State of the Blogosphere report as of March 2008, 184 million blogs were started and 346 million read blogs

A website containing regular entries

Created and maintained by anyone on any topic from anywhere

The blogosphere is an interconnected community of bloggers

According to Technorati State of the Blogosphere report as of March 2008, 184 million blogs were started and 346 million read blogs

Blog Hosting Blog hosting services make it very easy to create and maintain improve usability features and tools (i.e., widgets) Some hosting services Blogger Wordpress Edublogs

Blog hosting services make it very easy to create and maintain

improve usability

features and tools (i.e., widgets)

Some hosting services

Blogger

Wordpress

Edublogs

Blogs in Education Education blogs are used For course work Discussions, journaling, reflections, writing exercises Students can create their own blog or given permission to author the course blog Making announcements , communicating and clarifying As a news/industry source for Policy Research Communicating (with followers, etc.) New technologies

Education blogs are used

For course work

Discussions, journaling, reflections, writing exercises

Students can create their own blog or given permission to author the course blog

Making announcements , communicating and clarifying

As a news/industry source for

Policy

Research

Communicating (with followers, etc.)

New technologies

Uses and Examples of Education Blogs To encourage discussion and creating or posting comments on others’ posts or comments For student postings of essays that reinforce topic areas Example: http://courseblog.cs.princeton.edu/spring06/wws528f/ As a discussion board Example: http://examinedlife.typepad.com/ph1101egem1004/ scroll and click Comments (44), or Assignments For reflective or journal writing Example: http://samanthajc.edublogs.org/ For assignments Examples: http://spanish1olah2009.edublogs.org/ and http://spanish1olah2009.edublogs.org/grupo-morado/ Ref: NC State University http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/blogs/examples.html#instructors

To encourage discussion and creating or posting comments on others’ posts or comments

For student postings of essays that reinforce topic areas

Example: http://courseblog.cs.princeton.edu/spring06/wws528f/

As a discussion board

Example: http://examinedlife.typepad.com/ph1101egem1004/ scroll and click Comments (44), or Assignments

For reflective or journal writing

Example: http://samanthajc.edublogs.org/

For assignments

Examples: http://spanish1olah2009.edublogs.org/ and http://spanish1olah2009.edublogs.org/grupo-morado/

Ref: NC State University http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/blogs/examples.html#instructors

FERPA Blogs are public Abide by FERPA regulations Ensure student privacy Obtain student consent (example: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/blogs/faculty.html ) Use password protected access (e.g., invite students to participate in private blog) If you are concerned with privacy issues, you can control who accesses the blog by inviting your students. Set ground rules for posting Provide guidelines for assignments posted on the Internet (i.e., avoid writing about revealing personal information)

Blogs are public

Abide by FERPA regulations

Ensure student privacy

Obtain student consent (example: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/blogs/faculty.html )

Use password protected access (e.g., invite students to participate in private blog)

If you are concerned with privacy issues, you can control who accesses the blog by inviting your students.

Set ground rules for posting

Provide guidelines for assignments posted on the Internet (i.e., avoid writing about revealing personal information)

More about Blog Hosting Services When creating a blog, write a list of about 5 or 10 names before you register Blogger Need a GMAIL account Online and very easy to get started Example: http://www.virtualedworld.blogspot.com/ Wordpress Downloadable software or online (like Blogger) http://jdfrey.wordpress.com/podcasting-in-education/ Edublogs For educators Free or paid (about $39.95/year) http://spanish1olah2009.edublogs.org/spanish-1-student-blogs-2/

When creating a blog, write a list of about 5 or 10 names before you register

Blogger

Need a GMAIL account

Online and very easy to get started

Example: http://www.virtualedworld.blogspot.com/

Wordpress

Downloadable software or online (like Blogger)

http://jdfrey.wordpress.com/podcasting-in-education/

Edublogs

For educators

Free or paid (about $39.95/year)

http://spanish1olah2009.edublogs.org/spanish-1-student-blogs-2/

Extra Stuff Strikethroughs Indicates a change from the original posting and that the record stands Code of Ethics "I will let the record stand; I will not delete posts, or parts of them, unless not doing so would violate one of the foregoing principles, and I will give notice that I have done so. If I modify a post, it will be by adding to it; and I will mark these additions clearly. I will not post an update notice when fixing grammatical errors." Conversational Media Marketing, accessed on Jan. 8, 2009 from http://www.conversationalmediamarketing.com/2008/05/using-strikethr.html Widgets A widget is a tool or small application that is made specifically to incorporate into a blog Example of widgets in Blogger

Strikethroughs

Indicates a change from the original posting and that the record stands

Code of Ethics

"I will let the record stand; I will not delete posts, or parts of them, unless not doing so would violate one of the foregoing principles, and I will give notice that I have done so. If I modify a post, it will be by adding to it; and I will mark these additions clearly. I will not post an update notice when fixing grammatical errors." Conversational Media Marketing, accessed on Jan. 8, 2009 from http://www.conversationalmediamarketing.com/2008/05/using-strikethr.html

Widgets

A widget is a tool or small application that is made specifically to incorporate into a blog

Example of widgets in Blogger

For more information Go to http://virtualedworld.blogspot.com In the sidebar under My Delicious Tags click Blogs Go to http://edublogs.org/ and view educator blogs Read http://oedb.org/library/features/top-100-education-blogs or http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/blogs/examples.html#instructors Search Google: “education blogs”

Go to http://virtualedworld.blogspot.com

In the sidebar under My Delicious Tags click Blogs

Go to http://edublogs.org/ and view educator blogs

Read http://oedb.org/library/features/top-100-education-blogs or http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/blogs/examples.html#instructors

Search Google: “education blogs”

Presentation materials and more at: cc.pima.edu/~bbfaculty/ Susannah Sanchez  ssanchez9 at pima dot edu

cc.pima.edu/~bbfaculty/

Susannah Sanchez  ssanchez9 at pima dot edu