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1 Professor Emeritus Ray Schroeder Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning University of Illinois at Springfield Copyright Ray Schroeder, 2003. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author Creating a Campus Technology Blog

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Professor Emeritus Ray Schroeder

Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning

University of Illinois at Springfield

Copyright Ray Schroeder, 2003. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on

the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author

Creating a Campus Technology Blog

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What are Blogs?

Web + Logs = Blogs Web Pages

Automated updating Chronological postings May accommodate responses

Internet-specific phenomenon Incomplete index of blogs

http://portal.eatonweb.com/

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Some Examples of Relevant Blogs Ray’s Blogs

Online Learning Update Techno-News Blog

Harvard Law School Blogs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/

John Udell http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/

David Carter-Tod http://instructionaltechnology.editthispage

.com/

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Getting Started

Three Primary Ways (Siemens Art of Blogging)

Hosted http://www.blogger.com

Remotely Installed http://www.movabletype.org/

Desktop http://radio.userland.com/

Resources for Setting up Your Blog http://www.blogroots.com/resources.blog

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Blog Creation Wizards

Great Ways to Get Started: BlogSpot

http://www.blogspot.com/ WebCrimson

http://edit.webcrimson.com/signup/?mode=2&sitetype=Blog

Radio Userland http://radio.userland.com/

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Bloki – Page and Blog

Possibly the simplest way to create a blog

Takes just two minutes and you are up and running

Share your URL with others and give access

http://www.bloki.com http://rayschroeder.bloki.com/blog/

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Two-Way Blog Communication Providing “team” access to blog

Authorize multiple posters with configurable permissions

Comment Features Educational Technology Blog SquawkBox.tv

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RSS: Aggregating Blogs

Rich Site Summary Originally Netscape News Feeds

XML Summary of Blog Entries Multiple Reader Technologies http://newsisfree.com Examples:

http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/blogbox.htm http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/blogboxnews.htm

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Selected Sources

Introduction to Blogging http://www.nandotimes

.com/technology/story/621278p-4775497c.html http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/blogging_part_1.htm http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/blogging_part_2.htm http://newhome.weblogs.com/historyOfWeblogs http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/blogosphere.htm http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html http://www.livingreflections.com/blog/whatisablog.shtml

Blogging News http://www.blogroots.com/

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Selected Sources

RSS – Rich Site Summary http://www.downes.ca/files/RSS_Educ.htm http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/1/ http://www.infotoday.com/online/nov02/OnTheNet.htm

Blog Index http://portal.eatonweb.com

MS-NBC Blogspotting http://www.msnbc.com/news/809307.asp?0cb=-81892581

Ray’s Blogs http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/blogger.html http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/blogger.html http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/blogger.html

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Contact Information

Ray SchroederOffice of Technology-Enhanced Learning

HRB-79

One University Plaza

University of Illinois at Springfield

Springfield, IL 62703-5407

217-206-7531

[email protected]