Blogging for Educators

What is a blogg?

 A blog according to Wikiepdia, is a

user-generated website where entries
are made in journal style and displayed
in a reverse chronological order.
 What do blogs contain?
 Blogs usually deal with news on a
particular subject

 The typical blog has text, images and

web links to other web sites or other
blogs
 Where did the term Blog
originate from?
 A blog is short for a web log and was
started in 1997 when the term "weblog"
was coined by Jorn Barger.
 The short form, "blog," was coined in
1999 by Peter Merholz, who shortened
the word weblog into blog.
 This term eventually became known as
both a noun and verb
 When did blogging start?
 Blogging rapidly gained in popularity in
the early 1990s.

 The site Xanga, which was started in

1996-1997 with about 100 diaries,
grew to over 20 million by 2005.
 Blogging history
 Blogs became even more popular
beginning in 2000 with arrival of the
first blog creation tools.

 Previous to this, early weblogs were

simply manually updated components
of common websites.
 Blogging history
 By 2001, blogging how-to manuals
began to appear
 In 2002, Jerome Armstrong and
Markos Moulitsas Zúniga began
DailyKos
 It has now become one of the
Internet's most trafficked blogs with 1
million hits each day
 Blogging history
 Since 2002, blogs have gained
increasing notice for their role in
shaping and spinning news stories.
 Trent Lott
 Iraq war
 2004 Tsunami
 Katrina
 Blogging history
 In 2004, the role of blogs became
increasingly mainstream with use by:

 Candidates
 Political consultants
 New services
 What is a edublog?
 An edublog is a blog written by
someone within the educational
community usually teachers

 The collection of these blogs is called

the edublogosphere
 Major eduboggers are
 Stephen Downes
http://www.downes.ca
 Michael Feldstein
http://mfeldstein.com
 Will Richardson
http://www.weblogg-ed.com/book
 Edublogging ideas
 Use your blog as a website
 list assignments
 list web links
 list school/class related information for
your students

 Use your blog for interactive writing

assignments (pg 13)
 More edublogging ideas
 Use your blog as a reading tool
 Students may be more excited to read
information on the web, than in paper or
blackboard form.
 Post questions for your students to answer
or think about
 Post actual reading assignments for your
students to read
 More edublogging ideas
 Have your students create their own
blogs – at a pre-reviewed site by you
 Students could blog on a specific topic as an
assignment
 Student could post an assignment on their
blog
 Students could post comments on another
student’s blog as an assignment
 These ideas would require more work on the teacher’s
part as far as correcting these types of an assignments.
 Free webblog sites and related
blog informational sites
 http://teacherlingo.com Teacher Lingo
 A growing teacher community that connects teachers and educators from
every level.

 http://www.classblogmeister.com Class
Blogmeister This online blogging tool is explicitly designed with
teachers and students in mind, where the teacher can evaluate, comment
on, and finally publish students' blog articles in a controlled environment.

 http://supportblogging.wikispaces.com
Support Blogging This site has been set up to provide an
opportunity for students, teachers, administrators, parents, and others to
help promote an understanding of the benefits of educational blogging.
 More free webblog sites and
related blog informational sites
 www.blogger.com Blogger – easily create
a blog in 3 steps
 http://buzz.blogger.com/bloggerforword.
html
Blogger with Word Information
 http://supportblogging.wikispaces.com/Li
nks+to+School+Bloggers
Blogs on Educational Blogging
 More free webblog sites and
related blog informational sites
 www.teacherhosting.com Teacher Hosting
This site is designed for and supported by teachers and educators who
share an interest in technology and a dedication to the art of education. We
understand that educators face an ever-expanding and bewildering set of
options every day.

 http://www.esu5.org/techteacher/interacti
velearning.htm#blogs Tech Connected
Teacher’s Blogging Information
 www.21publish.com Get Your People
Blogging. Multi-User blogging made easy.Hosted, private-labeled,
free
 More free webblog sites and
related blog informational sites
 http://www.edspresso.com
Education News Blog
 http://gaggle.net/gen?_template=/tem
plates/gaggle/html/blog/index.jsp

 Gaggle Student Blogging

 http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/
archives/TL/2003/02/blogs.php
Writing with Web Logs from Tech
Learning
More free webblog sites and
related blog informational sites
 http://www.tltgroup.org/blogs.htm
Exploration Guide: Educational Uses of
Blogs, Wikis, RSS Feeds, etc
 http://www.eschoolnews.com/BlogRepo
rt.pdf
Best of the Education Blog’ Awards
 Educator’s blogs to read
 http://mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/
bgblogging
Barbara Ganley
 http://anne.teachesme.com Anne Davis
 http://davidwarlick.com/2cents David Warlick
 http://tim.lauer.name/ Tim Lauer
 www.mchron.net/site/edublog.php Ken Smith
 More educator’s blogs to read
 www.theshiftedlibrarian.com Jenny Levine
 www.teachandlearn.ca/blog Konrad
Glogowski
http://technosavvy.org/ Tom Hoffman
 www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm Stephen
Downes
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with eBlogger

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