Blogging for Educators 101 Laura Turner

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Blogging for Educators 101Laura Turner
Computer Technology Instructor College of
Education at BHSU
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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Blogging history

• In 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly
  mainstream with use by
• Candidates
• Political consultants
• New services

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Gartner Group Forecasts

• Gartner Group forecasts that blogging will peak
  in 2007, leveling off when the number of writers
  who maintain a personal website reaches 100
  million.

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Garner Group Forecasts

• This firm also estimates that there are now
  approximately 200 million former bloggers who
  have stopped maintaining their online diaries
  which in turn has created a huge rise in the
  amount of dotsam and netsam (unwanted data) on
  the Web.

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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

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Major eduboggers are

• Stephen Downeshttp//www.downes.ca
• Michael Feldstein http//mfeldstein.com
• Will Richardson http//www.weblogg-ed.com/book

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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)

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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

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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 students
  blog as an assignment
• These ideas would require more work on the
  teachers part as far as correcting these types
  of an assignments.

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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.

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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/LinkstoSch
  oolBloggers Blogs on Educational Blogging

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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/interactivelearnin
  g.htmblogs Tech Connected Teachers Blogging
  Information
• www.21publish.com Get Your People Blogging.
  Multi-User blogging made easy.Hosted,
  private-labeled, free

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More free webblog sites and related blog
informational sites

• http//www.edspresso.com Education News Blog
• http//gaggle.net/gen?_template/templates/gaggle/
  html/blog/index.jsp
• Gaggle Student Blogging
• http//www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/20
  03/02/blogs.php Writing with Web Logs from Tech
  Learning

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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/BlogReport.pdf Best of
  the Education Blog Awards

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Educators blogs to read

• http//mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgbloggi
  ng 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

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More educators 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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Now lets create and edit a blogwith eBlogger
lauraturner_at_bhsu.edu Educational Web
Portalhttp//www.bhsu.edu/education/edfaculty/ltu
rner/index.html