Blogging is NOT writing essays but a new, distinct form of writing. Leading educational blogger, Vicki "Cool Cat Teacher" Davis shares the update to her 10 Habits of Bloggers that Win and relates it to how we should be teaching blogging in the classroom. The objective is to create "professional quality" bloggers not to just have a different way to publish essays!

1. Blogging for a better classroom Vicki Davis, Teacher http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com Handouts http://coolcatteacher.wikispaces.com

2. Web 1.0 The Read Only Web Source: The Wayback Machine

3. Web 2.0 The tools in school are changing again. The Read/ Write Web

5. Wikis

6. Podcasts

7. Social Networking

8. Tagging

10. What is a Blog?

11. Do blogs matter? “The Internet’s first scalp.” John Podhertz, The New York Post I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years either.— Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, Dec. 5, 2002

12. Media’s Response A Kennedy school of journalism study found: “A certain receptivity in the bloggers allowed judgment in the press to correct itself.”[1] [1] Rosen, Jay. "The Legend of Trent Lott and the Weblogs." Pressthink: Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine 15 Mar 2004 05 Jun 2006 <http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/03/15/lott_case.html>.

13. Blogs and the media!

14. Societal Shift “ When the smoke cleared, mainstream journalism’s authority was weakened.[1] [1] Pein, Corey. "Blog-Gate." Columbia Journalism Review 1: January/February2005 05 Jun 2006 <http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/1/pein-blog.asp>.

15. http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html

16. Web + Log = Blog

18. Comments

19. The Sidebar

20. The RSS Feed

21. About the Author

23. Places for Classes to Blog http://www.classblogmeister.com http://www.edublogs.org Youth Voices – High School Kids www.ning.com www.blogger.com www.think.com

24. My blogs http://westwood.ning.com http://netgened.grownupdigital.com http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com/profile/coolcatteacher http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com/profiles/blogs/beginning-of-project-blog-post http://digiteendreamteam.blogspot.com http://technocatteens.blogspot.com/

25. Video + Blogging = Vlogging http://www.youtube.com/user/digiteendreamteam

26. What about bad comments? Moderated comments It takes time to show up. Spam comments Require you to enter letters to make sure you’re human. “Authentication code”

27. Elementary Blogging Mark Ahlness – Mighty Writers http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=41233 Al Upton’s Mini Legends http://minilegends.edublogs.org/ His Students are on the right side

28. 10 Habits of Bloggers That Win (What to teach students about blogging)

29. Habit #1 Have a “voice” Blog Like a Pirate http://westwood.ning.com/profiles/blogs/693670:BlogPost:8384 My new one “blog like a “blue Man” (Avatar)

30. Classroom “Voices” are Educated Ones No IM speak Make it clear what part of the assignment you’re doing (Headings) Spell check (Firefox)

31. Habit #2 Hyperlink words that need explanation.(Contextual Linking)http://technocatteens.blogspot.com/2010/08/augmented-reality-future-now.html

32. The manual way to do it!

33. Habit #3 Have a tempting title.CatchyInformativePiques CuriosityExplains a little bitSee http://technocatteens.blogspot.com/

34. Which blog post will you read? A paragraph I read today Ipods: Killing the CD as we Know it Gesture Based Computing Assignment Murdering the Mouse: The Future of Gesture Based Computing

35. Habit #4 Write and cut in half.(Write fast and then edit it down and reorganize.)

36. Exception The “How to” Post Then be very specific, give examples, show pictures, screenshots, tutorials.

37. Habit #5 Don’t post till they can see the white with their eyes.(White space)http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2010/09/tips-to-overcome-conversation.html

38. Write first, format second. Habit #6

39. Important formatting Headings Bullets Quotations Italics (sparingly) Color (for emphasis) Did I say WHITE SPACE?

40. Paint a picture! Habit #7

41. Places to Find Pictures Creative Commons www.creativecommons.org Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images Flickr – www.flickr.com Cool Iris Add In - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579/

42. Screenshots & Videos Jing – www.jingproject.com (Screencast) Fireshot – Screenshots on web Win 7 Snipping tool – Screenshots Camtasia – Screencasting Students should know how to embed

43. Other add ins Graphic Organizers – http://www.classtools.net Graphics http://westwood.ning.com/profiles/blogs/comparing-and-contrasting

44. Habit #8 Before you bag it, tag it!Pull Technologies - http://westwood.ning.com/profiles/blogs/reflective-blog-post-plnsUse a Tag “pln”http://westwood.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=pln

47. Habit #9 Ping and Participate!Ping your friends! (for adults)www.twitterfeed.com

48. Ping Search Engines www.pingomatic.com Only ping if you WANT to be found! People you link to will follow trackbacks to YOUR BLOG!! So get ready!

49. Make it easy for others to Ping your content Tweetmeme http://tweetmeme.com/about/retweet_button

50. Engage in Conversation Reply to those who comment to you! Disqus www.disqus.com

51. Commenting

52. Habit #10 Get the stats back!www.statcounter.comBlogger is internal

53. The great need for meaning We want a global audience. Must be done wisely and safely.

54. Where do I go from here? Start blogging!! Every expert was once a beginner.

55. The power of Three!