BLOGS
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Example Blogs
"The word blog is short for web log (weblog). It is used both as a noun and a verb.
As a noun, a blog is also known as an online journal or web diary, as well as a content management system or an online publishing platform." ...continued at
http://weblogs.about.com/cs/weblogs101/f/whatisablog.htm
A weblog is a coffeehouse conversation in text with references as required. —Rebecca Blood
Weblogs: A History and Perspective
http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html
An essay posted on the blog of early blogger Rebecca Blood who writes for MS-NBC. Her book, The Weblog Handbook is available from Amazon.com. Here's an excerpt on Weblog Ethics.
Blogging 101
http://whatsyourstory.msn.com/article.aspx?aid=1&src=Self
Good tips from Rebecca Blood at MS-NBC.
Academic Blog
http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2003/06/blog/
An article from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Weblogs in Schools
http://www.weblogs4schools.co.uk/TheFord/stories/storyReader$114
An viewpoint on blogs from U.K. educator, Peter Ford.
Scholars Who Blog
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i39/39a01401.htm
An article from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Academic Uses for Blogs
http://manila.userland.com/academic/academicBlogs
More ideas from users of the Manila Academic blogging application.
Ways to Use Blogs
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ways.html
The University of Minnesota provides blog space for teachers and students. Here they offer some suggestions and tips for faculty, instructors and students.
Weblogg-Ed
http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
"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."
Blogs in the Classroom
http://blogs.uww.edu/archives/for_instructors/blogs_in_the_classroom/
From the blogs@UWW (University of Wisconsin.) Some posted topics include "Pedagogical Innovation via Instructional Technology" and "Educational Use of Blogging."
Weblogs at Harvard Law
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/whatMakesAWeblogAWeblog
On this support site and home page for weblogs hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School they are studying weblogs, how they're used, and what they are. Rather than saying "I know it when I see it" I wanted to list all the known features of weblog software, but more important, get to the heart of what a weblog is, and how a weblog is different from a Wiki, or a news site managed with software like Vignette or Interwoven.
Educational Bloggers Network
http://www.ebn.weblogger.com/
Sponsored by the Bay Area Writing Project and Weblogger.com, the Educational Blogger Network (eBN) is a community of teachers and education professionals and supporters who use weblogs for teaching and learning. The network assists members to advance weblog integration in education.
Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education blog
http://capeweb.typepad.com
Blog maintained by Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education which improves student learning through partnering with schools to integrate the arts into curriculum.
Music for All Foundation
http://www.music-for-all.org/blog/
This foundation has found a way to keep their supporters updated with this blog.
WebQuest News
http://www.webquest.org
Looking for a good WebQuest? What started as a regular web page a few years ago is now a blog with an RSS feed so you can know about updates and webquest additions as soon as they happen.
Art blog
http://www.roua.org/artblog/
Created by a couple of Romanian artists, this blog displays the work of various artists.
and now... A Blogging Webquest for YOU, the educator
How do Educators Use the Internet?
a webquest on Blogs and RSS
http://ettenborough.net/wow2004
Blogging Services
| Blogger | Free online host | Easy push-button publishing without having to download anything. Now a part of Google. Great place to get your blogging feet wet! |
| LiVEJOURNAL | Free online host | LiveJournal is a simple-to-use (but extremely powerful and customizable) personal publishing ("blogging") tool, built on open source software. |
| WordPress | Free Download | "WordPress is the most prominent rising star of weblog software, completely free and with a large and active community. Styles, plugins and hacks are readily available, with problems such as comment spamming being addressed far more rapidly than competing applications." — from ArsTechnica who named it 2004 Web Application of the Year |
| Thingamablog | Open Source Download | Thingamablog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application that makes authoring and publishing your weblogs almost effortless. |
| Greymatter | Open Source Download | Greymatter is the original opensource weblogging and journal software. |
| Typepad | Starts at $4.95/mo | Three levels of service to match your level of experience and aspirations. You can switch to a different level at any time. Try it free for 30 days. |
| MoveableType | Education packages start at $39.95 |
Movable Type 3.16 is the premier weblog publishing platform for businesses, organizations, developers, and web designers. Powerful customization. Choose the appropriate license that fits the needs of you and your students. You can choose a license for a single professor or classroom, or you can select a license based on the number of enrolled students within your department, college, or university in a single geographic location. |
| Manila Academic | $499.00/yr | A light-weight and easy to use website and weblog publishing system used by academic institutions all over the world to create and edit web content, collaborate on projects, manage online discussion groups and share documents. |
RSS Feed Readers
What is RSS and How Do You Use It?
Feedreader
http://www.feedreader.com
Feedreader is a lightweight open-source aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats. It works under Windows 95 and later versions.
Newsfire (for Mac)
http://www.newsfirerss.com
Wasting time clicking through your bookmarks to find updated content? Obsessively clicking 'Refresh' on your favorite news websites? Enter NewsFire, an elegant, open-source way to monitor your news feeds and be notified of updated content.