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Blog Terminology
Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.
www.bytowninternet.com/glossary
Blogging Timeline NY Magazine Article
Anatomy of a Blog Blogging 101 Definitions
Why Read Blogs?
- Blog Sites for Professional Development
- Sharing
- Being a part of the conversation
Steps to getting started
1. Begin reading blogs
2. As youread begin to comment - participation is required to get benefits of communication on blogs
3. Create a blog
- Put thinking and effort in to what you are writing
- Write your own ideas "expository" writing
- Synthesis - hypertexted literacy - read in linked environment.
How do I keep up with all the blogs I want to read?
RSS aggregator will help you. Google Reader, Bloglines, and others are available.
- An aggregator is a service that gathers information published by different sources and organises it together under a common search interface. The aggregator may also license access to a collection of journals from many different publishers.
- Really Simple Syndication RSS is a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by news websites and weblogs. They are used to provide items containing short descriptions of web content together with a link to the full version of the content. This information is delivered as an XML file called RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_Feed
- XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C initiative that allows information and services to be encoded with meaningful structure and semantics that computers and humans can understand. XML is great for information exchange, and can easily be extended to include user-specified and industry-specified tags.
Blog Safety and use for classroom blogging
1. Clear objective of learning
2. Model "transparency of world" - let parents know about children posting online
3. Follow AUP
These blog sites will allow you to create a classroom blog:
Edublogs My personal favorite
21Publish (individual blogs)
Examples of Class Blogs:
Mrs. Moehe's Critically thinking are you?
Mr. William's 6th grade math
Elementary Blogs
Learning and Teaching with Technology - examples of blogging from k-5th grade.
How to edublog - How and why elementary classrooms need to blog
It's Elementary - Resources you can use in the elementary classroom - not all sources can be accessed by our school filter.
The Book Blog - Elementary Media Specialist talks about books.
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