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
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