The current state of weblogs for teaching and learning

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The current state of weblogs for teaching and
learning
October
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• Trey Martindale, East Carolina University
• David Wiley, Utah State University
• teachable.org

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• Blogs explained
• Blogs as CMS
• Professional Development
• Knowledge Management
• RSS
• Social bookmarking

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• Whats a blog?
• Components
• Software

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Blog Affordances

• Archived
• Time- and date-stamped
• Built in search
• Auto formatting
• Comments
• Syndication

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Blog Affordances

• Archived
• Time- and date-stamped
• Built in search
• Auto formatting
• Comments
• Syndication

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Blog software

• Moveable type
• Blogger.com
• Wordpress
• pMachines
• LiveJournal

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• Blogs as CMS
• Student blogs

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Blogs for Course Mgmt

• Announcements (recent at the top)
• Weekly questions / discussion (comments)
• Timed release of content (if you care)

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Blogs for Students (Class)

• Public posting of writing
• Students reading each other (really improves
  writing!)
• Comments / discourse happens spontaneously
• People outside of class reading students

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Blogs for Students (Career)

• Carry on across courses
• Link to student blogs from your blog!
• People who who search Google find student blogs
• Students get reputation and consulting
  opportunities

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• Blogs for Professional Development and Knowledge
  Management
• RSS

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Notes

• Know your audience
• Cite others
• Blogroll
• Far beyond the course
• Host/Dont Host --Dont

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Who would you like to hear from? Who would you
like to speak to?
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• Delicious, Furl, social bookmarking
• Metadata, Feedburner
• Anything else

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Discussion
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