A blog is a website where an individual regularly posts written content, photos, and links. Blogs are used for self-expression, self-publishing personal journals, sharing information and resources, building community, providing entertainment, and marketing. Common blogging platforms include WordPress, Movable Type, Radio Userland, and Blogger. Setting up classroom blogs can integrate technology into teaching and help students share work. Popular blogs cover topics like news, sports, cooking, entertainment, gardening, parenting, politics, media, climate change, and more.

1. Introduction To Blogging Desire é Caskey [email_address]

2. What is a blog? According to Wikipedia : (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog) “ A blog is a website that contains written material, links for photos being posted all the time, usually by one individual, on a personal basis. The term is a shortened form of weblog, although the latter term has since fallen into disuse.”

3. Why Blog? Self-Expression (ie: artists) Self-Publish (personal journals) Share Information & Resources (financial advice) Build Community (hurricane Katrina) Provide Entertainment Promotions & Marketing

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9. Celebrity Bloggers

10. Anatomy of a Blog

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13. Creating your own blog http://www.wordpress.com http://www.movabltype.org http://www.radio.userland.com http://www.bloglines.com http://www.typepad.com http://www.blognet.info http://www.livejournal.com http://www.blogger.com

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18. Creating a Classroom Blog Blogs specifically designed for K-12 classrooms: ePals SchoolBlog (fee-based). BlogMeister (free -- must e-mail for a pass code) Gaggle.Net's Blog (free; includes a filter; will call to confirm you're an educator). TIP: Using Blogs to Integrate Technology into the classroom: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/47

19. More Blogs to Explore http://www.billingsgazette.net/info/?h/blogs/ http://www.sportsfrog.com/ http://www.101cookbooks.com/ http://blogcritics.org/ (about entertainment world) http://realdirt.blogspot.com/ (gardening) http://bloggingbaby.com/ http://www.boingboing.net/ (current events) http://powerlineblog.com/ (politics) http://www.prwatch.org (Media & Politics) http://climateark.org/blog/ (climate change) http://www.ipl.org/div/blogs/ (Internet Public Library)