The document discusses various types of blogs and tools for blogging, including what a blog is, where you can create blogs, how to find blogs and blog resources, and examples of emerging technologies like wikis, podcasting, Flickr, and social bookmarking that can be used in education. It encourages reflection on how these tools can be used in the classroom.

2. Goal: to overwhelm you a bit!

3. What is a Blog? Will Richardson’s video http://sxnuss.people.wm.edu/WebLoggingSmall.mov A blog (or weblog ) is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed with the newest at the top. Like other media , blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. A typical blog combines text, images , and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog

4. Blogging Begins with Reading Technorati Google blog search Blogdigger BlogPulse Will’s Bloglines

5. RSS – Making it Simple! There are many introductions to RSS available on the Internet. Bloglines What does it look like? Add me: http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com

6. Where Can You Blog? Personal Blogging Websites Free Sites: Blogger Edublogs Non-free Sites: TypePad Sheryl’s Blog Teacher or Community Sites Allow a teacher or parent to set up a number of individual blogs under a single website. A little more difficult to set up, but one of the advantages of these community sites is that there are often controls or restrictions for the administrator: Free Sites: Classblogmeister created by David Warlick Gaggle free email and blog hosting http://www.takingitglobal.org / - lots of social networking tools https://www.imbee.com/ Secure Social Networking and Blogging More How to: http://abpc.wikispaces.com/+Basic+Blogs

7. How Can I Find Out More? Support Blogging.com (High school teacher) Vicki Davis writes some helps for beginning bloggers: 10 Habits of bloggers that win How and why beginners ( newbies ) should blog . How to add tags to your blog . Setting Up a blog (Other Teachers) Teachers Teaching Teachers Teaching With Blogs Learn About Blogging in Education ABPC WIKI Policies April’s Page

8. Vlog A vlog is a weblog which uses video as its primary presentation format. Andy Vidblogger directory Alan Marco Torres

9. Examples of Blogs

10. Look at What We Can Build When We Work Together! The term wiki is a shortened form of wiki wiki which is from the native language of Hawaii where it is commonly used as an adjective to denote something "quick" or "fast"! Let’s create one

11. Podcasting Do I need to have an iPod? Content to go The three steps... 1 - record 2 - edit(?) 3 - publish Podomatic (site) Example: Jane How to- From a Ala. Teacher

12. Flickr Mappr Flickr Tools Example

13. Social Bookmarking del.icio.us Technorati

14. How can you use these emerging technologies in your classroom? Reflect