Blogging 101: Blogging for the Absolute Beginner Gail Desler & Kathleen Watt Technology Services.

Blogging 101: Blogging for the Absolute Beginner

Gail Desler & Kathleen Watt

Technology Services

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What is a blog? blogging?

Noun?

Verb?

Website?

Online journal?

Social network?

Other?

A blog is …

“a website that is up-dated frequently, with new material posted at the top of the page” (Blood).

“a term used to describe a website that publishes content on a regular and ongoing basis. It can be a personal diary, a chronicle of commentaries on various issues and topics, or a creative journal, to name just a few” (Boan).

A blog Is…

“basically an easy way to publish content on the Internet [because] it allows you to put that content online without needing to know things like Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) or coding languages” (Richardson).

web + log = weblog = blog

Blogs are simple to use!

Blogs do not require expensive software programsBlogs do not require a background in web design and/or programmingIf you can fill out a form, you can blog!

My blogging journey

Discussion board – Always Running

Reading – Weblogg-ed

Commenting – Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Writing/Owning – Blogwalker

Please join me on the journey. Head to http://connectingclassrooms.edublogs.org and start blogging!

Review sample blogs

In the next 10 minutes, read as many of the sample blogs listed in the sidebar under Blogroll as you can (http://connectingclassrooms.edublogs.org)

Explore the following:How is blog writing different from other types of writing?How is it similar?How can blogging help teachers?

How blogging helps teachers

Partner with at least two other people.

Share your review notes and discuss the samples as both effective writing and as teacher resources.

A look at classroom blogs

Head back to the sidebar (http://connectingclassrooms.edublogs.org) and read as many classroom blogs as you can in 10 minutes.

Partner with at least two others and consider how blogging helps students.

Bringing blogs to the classroom

Effective, free blog providers:

Edublogs.org—the BESTNo ads, no links other than your own

More control, more features

Allows upload of documents (20 MB)

BloggerEASY

Links to other blogs (could be anything)

No space to upload documents

Want more?

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