1. EDU 626 Integrating Educational Technology
Spring 2012
Blogging
Bringing Schools into
the New Century?
Or maybe it’s already
obsolete technology?

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What is a Blog?
•A log of websites visited? Or a personal
journal? Or something else?
–“Defining this variable form is not
easy in the highly opinionated
blogosphere - nor is it simple in the
increasing number of newsrooms that
are in embracing blogging. . . .
Capturing the blogging beast is no
small matter, not when everybody
from the lonely scribe in Paducah to
me-too mass media in Manhattan is
trying to get arms and minds around
the virtual blob now encroaching
online.”
• Just what is a blog, anyway? By Michael Conniff
Posted: 2005-09-29

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http://ashleytan.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/why-blog/

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Educational Uses of Blogging?
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–Will Richardson
–This site is dedicated to
discussions and reflections on the
use of Weblogs, wikis, RSS,
audiocasts and other Read/Write
Web related technologies in the
K-12 realm, technologies that are
transforming classrooms around
the world.
• About/Disclosures

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How do teachers blog?
–Teachers use blogs to provide
assignments to students
–To communicate with other teachers
about classroom experiences, or with other
educators about the use of educational
technologies, and for many other
purposes.
–to give parents insight into what‟s going
on in the classroom.
–Teachers blogging to communicate other
teachers (and anyone else who cares to
„listen‟)
– Blogging In Education Today (a
multipart series)

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The Book Blog
– we encourage students, parents, teachers
and community members from all over the
world to join us as we read this book over 4
weeks (from March 6th to April 3rd, 2006).

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Math Teaching Blog

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Some Kentucky teachers’ blogs

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A Kentucky newsblog of
interest to teachers
http://theprincipal.blogspot.com/

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How do you find out about
blogs of interest?
•
–The leading blog search engine and directory,
Technorati.com indexes more than a million
blogs. The site has become the definitive source
for the top stories, opinions, photos and videos
emerging across news, entertainment,
technology, lifestyle, sports, politics and
business. Technorati.com tracks not only the
authority and influence of blogs, but also the
most comprehensive and current index of who
and what is most popular in the Blogosphere.
Read more: http://technorati.com/about-
technorati/#ixzz1HeIRPJ00

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• From Mad Magazine to Facebook - What
Have We Learned?
–We cannot allow education in
general or ourselves in particular
to become antiquated. What does it
tell us when kids cannot wait to
leave school in order re-turn-on, re-
boot, and once again engage in
meaningful (to them) real-world
learning.
• Greg Farr

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Is blogging on the way out for our
kids?