This document discusses using blogs for lifelong learning. It provides learning outcomes on exploring blogs and blogging, describing how blogs can be used in teaching and learning, creating and customizing a blog in WordPress, and embedding multimedia content in blogs. Blogs are proposed as a global communication space that can facilitate discussion and collaboration between students and teachers. Blogs allow teachers to upload materials, assignments, videos, podcasts and other content to supplement classroom learning and encourage collaboration and sharing of ideas, research and experiences. Various free blogging platforms like Blogger, WordPress, and EduBlogs are presented.

1. Blogging For Lifelong
Learning
Science City, Ahmedabad
24th-March-2013

2. Learning Outcomes:
• Exploring BLOGS and BLOGGING
• Describe use of BLOG in Teaching and
Learning
• Create and Customized your BLOG in
wordpress
• Embed Multimedia content in your BLOG
• Update your BLOG

4. Learn UNLEARN Relearn
Source: http://onestoplearning.blogspot.in/2011/01/from-teaching-to-learning-paradigm.html

5. Source: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.in/2012/06/dna-of-21st-century-educator.html

6. Focus is on Learning NOT
TECHNOLOGY

7. Source: http://onestoplearning.blogspot.in/2011/01/understanding-how-learning-works.html

8. Source: http://www.nadasisland.com/tpack/tpack.html

10. Source: www.educause.edu/

12. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwcW5AKcfl4&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1

13. Source: http://edudemic.com/2012/12/blogging-in-the-classroom-a-4-step-guide/

14. Source: http://www.michellehenry.fr/blogs.htm

15. Blogs provide GLOBAL communication
space for
Collaboration
BLOG
STUDENT
Facilitate
discussion
CLASS
ROOM

16. Blog in Classroom:
• Material
Upload • Assignment
• Quiz
• Video
Supplem-
ental
• Podcast
• Ppt & docs
Pedagogy
Collabo- • Project
Ration • Discussion
• Ideas
Share/
Reflect
• Research
• Experience

18. Free Blogging Tools
www.blogger.com/ http://wordpress.com/
http://blogsome.com/ http://edublogs.org/

19. RSS
Blogs
Or
Website OR
Update

20. Blogging Framework:
Update
Create
Ideas
Purpose of Blog

22. Getting Started with Wordpress.com
• Create Blog
• Write a post
• Add an Image
• Embed ppt and video
• Add visitor counter
• Customize your blog

23. Science Blog
Source:http://blogs.plos.org/dnascience/

24. Bad Science
Source:http://www.badscience.net/

25. Education Technology Blog
http://langwitches.org/blog/

26. Oxford Science Blog
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/index.html

27. http://www.downes.ca/index.html

28. http://edudemic.com/#

29. http://www.slideshare.net/langwitches/learning-to-blog-for-your-students
http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/10/23/coming-soon-stepping-it-up-
learning-about-blogs-for-your-students/

30. Source: http://blogging2learn.wordpress.com/

31. Source: http://ocw.usu.edu/instructional-technology-learning-sciences/principles-and-practices-
of-technology/blogs.html

32. Source: http://shop.plpnetwork.com/blogging-101/

33. Further Reading:
• http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/blogging-for-
learning?ref=http://zaidlearn.blogspot.in/201
2/10/blogging-for-learning-at-unirazak.html
• http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/ev
al/curriculum/ict/weblogs/
• http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/10/23/comi
ng-soon-stepping-it-up-learning-about-blogs-
for-your-students/
• http://www.sddu.leeds.ac.uk/online_resource
s/blogging/