Blogs
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Steven Cohen -- http://www.librarystuff.net/ states:
| "Instead of talking about creating a blog, create one. Then, show the people in charge how they work and that they can do for your company. Show and tell is easier digested than just tell." |
Others stress blogging as a reading and annotating activity...
"Treating blogging first as a reading practice, and second as its own genre of writing, political or otherwise, is useful in forming a more complete picture of this new/old phenomenon" of the blog as a record of reading -- a tradition that goes back to pamphleteering and the commonplace book....
Blogs are chronological, individual single 'writes' followed by comments from community members, creating a trail of thought -- while wikis are continually edited communally over time, creating a condensation of thought.
If you are ready to set up a blog, here's a great comparison chart on the functions of several popular blogging tools (i.e., software programs).
School Library blogs
Joyce Valenza's Never Ending Search
Alice in InfoLand's blog
Blue Skunk Blog
Deep Thinking
From the Inside Out
Gargoyles loose in the library
Infomancy
Librarian in the Middle
propernoun.net
View from the SchoolWanderings...
YALSA
Muller in the Middle
Of Life, Education...
Young Hoosier Book Award
McBookWords
The Loud Librarian
Mission:READ
More Library Blogs
Library Stuff
Library Clips
Will Richardson
Getting out there
Li-Blog_ary--The library's digital daily agenda.
Some student "Book Discussion" blogs
Student Reflections on Night by Elie Wiesel
"This blog was first created to allow students at Cold Spring Harbor High School in Cold Spring Harbor, New York and at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, Michigan to share their reflections upon reading the autobiographical memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. Students throughout the United States and from other nations are now invited to post comments."
Davis Jr. High Book Club
Questions and comments on two books so far: "Ender's Game" and "Esperanza Rising"
Pacific MS Library Book Blog
Different teachers have their own pages, plus students can blog based on categories (genres), e.g., Mysteries, Non-fiction, Science fiction, etc.
Their Eyes Were Watching God: Comprehension and Analysis Blog
A blog dedicated to discussion of one book
Read Write Think Repeat: where students write about what they're reading
Categories are mainly genres, e.g., biography, fantasy, humor, mystery
The Book Brag Blog
" Cosgrove Middle Schools Book Discussion Club! We have 25+ 6-8th grade students who get together every other week and talk about books."
The Year of the Hangman Book Blog
"Join an 8th grade American History class in Liberty, Missouri as they read the historical novel "The Year of the Hangman" and ask what would have happened if the Patriots would have lost the American Revolutionary War...."
Blogs and education
-- EduBlog Awards 2005
-- Polar Science Edublog award for best example/ case study of use of weblogs within teaching and learning 2005.
-- weblogg-ed: the read/write web in the classroom BLOG
-- The online Education section of the Guardian (UK) newspaper has several good introductory articles for teachers, e.g.,
\"How Blogs Can Make the Link\" and \"A Teacher's Guide to Blogging\".
-- I will blog because...
from Jacquie Henry's Wanderings
--Education/Technology
Examples of blogging workshops
Blogs--Excellent powerpoint tutorial on blogs from Barrie Jo Price and Anna C. McFadden of emTech.
the-vancouver-education-blogging-sessions from D’Arcy Norman Dot Net
A must read!
Blogging is not a classroom/class activity; Learning can occur outside of the classroom; The learner is in control; The Teacher/Professor/Instructor is not the boss; It’s about more than blogging; This stuff doesn’t need IT support
Sources for blogs
-- edublogs.org provide free blogs for teachers, researchers, librarians and other education professionals.
-- Learner Blogs provide free, high quality blogs for school students.
is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs.
Technorati tags
A 60-second animated short showing the progress of tagging on Technorati.com between January and July 2005 -- from zero to 20 million tags. Animation created by the Art and Computer Science research group at Carnegie Mellon.
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