BloggingAn introduction for educators

Bill MacKenty | www.mackenty.org

About me

• www.mackenty.org

• geek at the Edgartown School

• games in education

What do you know about blogging?

The Plan

• What is blogging?

• RSS!

• Ease of use...

• Why blog?

um, huh?

Web Log = Blog

A blog is a website for which an individual or a group frequently generates text, photographs, video, audio files, and/or links, typically (but not always) on a daily basis. The term is a shortened

form of weblog. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging". Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts," or "entries". The

person who posts these entries is called a "blogger".

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Online journal or diary

Blogging statistics

• blogger: 20.5 million blogs

• livejournal: 8 million blogs

• 608,000 posts in the last 24 hours

• myspace: 34 million blogs

• MSN spaces: uploading 1.9 pics per day and updating 170,000 blogs/day

Sources

• blogpulse.com

• technorati.com

• livejournal.com/stats.bml

very Blogger Demo easy

creating & posting in about 2 minutes

demo creating and posting

Why Blog?

• dynamically network

• very easy to use

dynamic RSS networking

• RSS - really simple syndication

• feeds

• readers

• ping aggregate sites

• technoratti & blogster

• comments & trackbacks

dynamic example feeds networking

dynamic example feeds networking

Very VERY easy

• Easy

• Different blogging systems

• blogger, moveable type, expression engine, livejournal, myspace, yahoo360, MSN places...

very Example blog easy

very More example blogs easy

why Integrate blog?

• Public writing opportunity

• Blog about anything -

• math, science, english language arts, history, cats, etc...

• Age/gender/race neutral ~ it’s the idea that counts

• Easily accessible for community

why Search blog?

Questions & discussion

• Questions and discussion