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PREFACE
1.
INTRODUCTION
Blogs, short for Weblogs, are online journals
filled with personal thoughts and Web links. "Free
thinking and linking" is what prominent education
blogger (and former Knight Ridder columnist) Joanne
Jacobs calls the increasingly popular mode of mass
communication.
The advent of easy-to-use blog software like
WordPress or Movable Type
has dramatically simplified online
publishing, making writing and editing blog entries
extremely easy. The journal format helps bloggers
reflect on how their position on an idea evolves.
It also makes it easier for you - the blog reader-
to devour whole chunks of the blog at one time,
so you don't have to check back with every site
every day.
Like the people who produce them, blogs can be thoughtful,
provocative, dull, or funny. They
can focus on subjects like: (to let you know you're
not going it alone).
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education policy (like Eduwonk or Number 2 Pencil),
- or
be smart, sassy (fresco, descarado) ,
and highly personal (like The Blackboard Jungle,
Edublog Insights, Hip Teacher, or Ms. Frizzle),
- There
are even blogs about blogs, like Weblogg-ed,
Will
Richardson's smart site dedicated to discussions
on how Internet-related technologies like blogs,
wikis (server programs that allow multiple users
to contribute to a Web site), and RSS (a way of
syndicating content) can improve effectively learning
and sharing information.
Credit: [extracted and adapted from an
article in edutopia.org
by: James Dalli . " Online,
off the cuff, and in your face" an article published
in ".]
2.
Blogosphere
The
term blogosfpere applies to a network of blogs
with links to one another, and that some content
may be sindicated (RSS)
Most
blogs have links to many other blogs, and this
feature can very quickly make the blogosphere
feel like an electronic hall of mirrors. So you'll
have to be selective, as some blogs, like some
people, aren't all that interesting.
A good place to begin is the Education Bloggers
Network, a community of teachers, education professionals,
and supporters who use blogs for teaching and learning.
[see
how to blog]
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BLOG. Definition:
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Blogs (short name for weblogs) are web pages with
dynamic content (managed by an server updating engine)
that can change their content online, and they may
contain links and chronologically ordered posts
marked with the time of posting.
- People
who participate in Blogs can create communities
of bloggers and these groups can be characterized
and measured quantitatively.
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The “blog,” unlike “electronic literature,” indicates
a particular form. A blog is a regularly-updated,
chronologically-ordered website offering posts,
often short posts, that may include links and may
allow comments from others. Montfort,
Nick.
(March 17, 2005)
Blogs
all share these qualities, but the writing on them
may be on any topic. They may be personal, academic,
political, about one’s hobby, about specific topics
like “web design” or “literature,” or focused in
a topic in some other way. But they are all personality
driven, so personal approach is to be found.
The
“blog,” unlike “electronic
literature”, indicates a particular
form. A blog website offers:
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A regularly-updated, chronologically-ordered
content (including date of updating)
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A history of archives you can retrieve for past
articles
- Content can be syndicated
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Posts (often short posts), that may include
links
- Comments from others about your posts.
- Information about similar sites.
Blogs all share these qualities, but the writing
on them may be on any topic. They may be personal,
academic, political, about one’s hobby,
or about areas of interest like "poetry"
or "cinema" .
