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Title: Weblogs as Teaching Tools


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Weblogs as Teaching Tools
  • Liz Kleinfeld
  • Red Rocks Community College

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Home base
  • http//telecoopdemo.blog-city.com
  • (telecoop demo dot blog dash city dot com)

3
What is a blog?
  • http//lanceistheman.blogspot.com/
  • http//www.realmofinsanity.blog-city.com/
  • http//toomuchinfo.blog-city.com/

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What is a blog?
  • Uses standard template
  • Shares features with journals, threaded
    discussions, and homepages
  • Allows interaction with readers from the public
    sphere

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Unique Features
  • Collaborative
  • Interactive
  • Networked
  • Has a real audience
  • Has a broad audience

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Top 10 Reasons to Use Blogs in Your Classes
  • 10. Makes thought processes visible
  • 9. Encourages peer response
  • 8. Makes writing less solitary
  • 7. Allows expression of personal alongside
    academic
  • 6. Requires students to think about audience

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Top 10 Reasons to Use Blogs in Your Classes
  • 5. Can show teacher-as-writer
  • 4. Acts as webliography
  • 3. Works for developed ideas and musings
  • 2. Students will be joining the blogosphere
  • 1. Its addictive

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  • http//revisionspiral.blog-city.com

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If you already use journaling or threaded
discussions in your classes,
  • here are some reasons to switch to blogs

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For any class
  • Blogs can be accessed 24/7
  • Students will be participating in a larger
    discussion
  • Students can see what others are doing/thinking
  • Class community improved
  • Students feel more responsible for actually
    journaling

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For an upper level class
  • Establishes early publishing record
  • Opens discipline-specific discourse to other
    disciplines
  • Opens knowledge making process to the public
  • Creates a public resource
  • Useful for soliciting research assistance

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As if that werent enough. . .
  • Blogs are free and simple to set up no
    knowledge of HTML necessary!!!

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Some Sample Student Blogs
  • roseytoes.blogspot.com
  • randomblog.blog-city.com
  • tuggerblogger.blogspot.com

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Set up your blog
  • Go to www.blog-city.com
  • Name your blog
  • Click Submit

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Set up your blog, continued
  • Complete the pop-up box questions
  • Select your color scheme (theme)
  • Check the terms and conditions box
  • Click proceed to step 2

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Set up your blog, continued
  • Create your user account
  • Click create user

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Set up your blog, continued
  • Click create your free blog

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Set up your blog, continued
  • Go to Click here to visit your blog

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Start blogging
  • To access your control panel, login

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Start blogging
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Bells Whistles
  • Simple enabling anonymous commenting, linking,
    bookmarks
  • More advanced RSS feeds, polls, tracking hits

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Other Fun Blogging Stuff
  • Blogrolls
  • revisionspiral
  • Blogsisters
  • Blogs for Bush
  • Community Blogs
  • Revising Teaching
  • Resources
  • Blogs in Education
  • Dennis G. Jerz

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Welcome to the Blogosphere!
  • Enable anonymous commenting
  • Post and link
  • Create bookmarks
  • Visit and comment on others blogs
  • telecoopdemo.blog-city.com

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For more on blogging
  • This slide show and many other links to blogging
    resources are posted at revisionspiral.blog-city.c
    om.
  • Send me the URL for your blog!
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