Blogging and RSS
This page provides links to some resources about blogging and RSS - their general use as well as their use in educational contexts as well as the concept of moblogging (using your mobile phone to post to your blogs).
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Added: 11 July 2007
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Practical Tips on How to Design Elearning Courses
"This blog offers tips and tricks on how to design elearning courses. The articles focus on topics such as Analysis and Design, Storyboarding, Designing Effective Instructional Strategies, Designing Game Based Courses and much more."
Added: 24 May 2007
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By Quentin D'Souza From TeachingHacks.com
Added: 8 February 2006
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A great document on what RSS is and how to use it
Comprehensive Guide to a professional blog site: a WordPress example
"Gone beyond Blogger? Want to really be aggressive in functionality and scope of content for your personal, professional or corporate blog? If so, this Comprehensive Guide to a Professsional Blog Site may be useful to you. SUMMARY This Guide is the result of 350 hrs of learning and experimentation to test the boundaries of blog functionality, scope and capabilities." Michael K Bergman, September 2005
Added: 29 September 2005
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"This Guide addresses about 100 individual "how to" blogging topics and lessons, all geared to the content-focused and not occasional blogger. More than 140 citations, 80 of which are unique, are provided to other experts with guidance for all of us. The Guide itself occupies 80 pages. It is all free."
"An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a Focus on Library Item/Librarian Blogs by Susan Herzog, Information Literacy Librarian @ Eastern Connecticut State University."
Added: 3 July 2005
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"The bibliography is organized by categories, then alphabetically within categories. While most entries are from the United States of America, BlogBib includes blogs and commentary from Canada, Europe, and Australia as well. Coverage includes academic, public, school, and special libraries."
"Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don't want published. You might, for example, publish something that someone considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that's under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the alleged crimes of a candidate for public office. The difference between you and the reporter at your local newspaper is that in many cases, you may not have the benefit of training or resources to help you determine whether what you're doing is legal. And on top of that, sometimes knowing the law doesn't help - in many cases it was written for traditional journalists, and the courts haven't yet decided how it applies to bloggers." Electronic Frontier Foundation
Added: 15 June 2005
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"The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected."
Beginners Guide to corporate blogging
From Corporateblogging.info
Added: 20 April 2005
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A good introduction to corporate blogging
"There are no hard and fast rules on how to blog. Having said that, bloggers will likely increase their exposure by following some simple blog guidelines." Sharon Housley, RSS Specifications, April 2005
Added: 20 April 2005
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"Most weblog audiences are small, but with time and regular updates audiences grow. Bloggers may never have more than a few hundred readers, but the people who return to regularly are generally interested in what you have to say."
How to blog safely (about work or anything else)
"Blogs are like personal telephone calls crossed with newspapers. They're the perfect tool for sharing your favorite chocolate mousse recipe with friends--or for upholding the basic tenets of democracy by letting the public know that a corrupt government official has been paying off your boss." Electronic Frontier Foundation, 6 April 2005
Added: 11 April 2005
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"As long as you blog anonymously and in a work-safe way, what you say online is far less likely to come back to hurt you."
Blogs and wikis: Technologies for enterprise applications
".. being dismissive of blogs and wikis because of how they are most often used, and talked about, today is a mistake (PCs and web browsers weren't considered as serious enterprise tools at first either). What is important is how they could be used. They are simply tools, and many of you will be surprised to find how much they are already being utilized in business environments." Lauren Wood, The Gilbane Report, Vol 12, No 10, March 2005
Added: 3 March 2005
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Lauren Wood provides a straightforward explanation of what they are, describes how they compare with content management systems, and reports on some telling examples of how blogs and wikis are currently being successfully used in enterprises.
With e-mail systems stumbling, electronic info feeds take root
"In the last year ING began using electronic feeds news feeds beamed directly to employee's desktop computers." Investor's Business Daily, 16 February 2006
Added: 25 February 2005
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A nice example of a company using RSS feeds for internal communications
RSS Workshop: Publish and syndicate your news to the Web
"In this workshop you'll learn how to create, validate, parse, publish, and syndicate your own RSS news channel. The emphasis will be the practical application of the two most popular varieties of RSS for dynamic publishing. "
Added: 15 February 2005
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This workshop will also teach you how others can incorporate your news into their pages automatically. The workshop will showcase the use of tools that are readily available to you.
Academics give lessons on blogs
"Until a few months ago, the attention paid to web logs, or blogs, focused mainly on politics and the media business. However, many in academia followed the web-diary of Salam Pax, the famous Baghdad blogger during the build-up to the war in Iraq. Now, the technology that has been an alternative source of news to many academics is being incorporated more fully into university life." Shola Adenakan, BBC News, 23 January 2004
Added: 24 January 2004
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"Blogging lecturers say the technology provides them with easy online web access to students and improves communication outside of the classroom
"Almost everyone who owns a computer has the ability to edit and publish video. Several hundred thousand people already have photoblogs and there are more than 1,5 million text-bloggers. How come there are so few videobloggers around? Is it really that hard to make a videoblog? No, in fact it has become pretty easy, but in order to help you start this tutorial will show you how to become a videoblogger using Blogger." Tutorial by Svein Høier and Jon Hoem, Arts and Media Dept., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, October 2004
Added: 25 October 2004
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"It is nice to know a little about html, but don´t worry the most important part is your interest in posting short videos regularly."
Everything you wanted to know about blogging but were afraid to ask
"There are plenty of good guides to blogging and I was going to add my $0.02 to the pile. It's the thing to do once your blog reaches a certain age, and I figure turning one is about the right time. However I'm going to break with blogosphere tradition of jumping on the bandwagon and instead present a collection of various appropriate links at the end of this post. What I am going to share with you is all the things they don't tell you about in blogging school. " Simon World, 27 August 2004
Added: 6 September 2004
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50 tips on how to bog - and some interesting comments too.
"Today, the weblog is frequently characterized (and criticized) as (only) a set of personal comments and observations. A look at the history of weblogging shows that this isn't the case. As Rebecca Blood observes: "The original weblogs were link-driven sites. Each was a mixture in unique proportions of links, commentary, and personal thoughts and essays." Bookmarks, rants and raves, news, events: all were fodder for the weblogger." Stephen Downes, Educause, Sept/OCt 2004
Added: 29 August 2004
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.This article looks at the "nature and history of blogging, educational applications, tools and technologies, trends, and early experiences in educational blogging"
What Are the Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs?
"The appearance of weblogs have left many observers, including me, wondering about the differences between the two technologies and how they will be used inside online communities. Are weblogs really that different from message boards? How?" commoncraft, 24 August 2004
Added: 26 August 2004
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Includes an interesting table outlining the differences
Blogs and blogging: advantages and disadvantages
"Isn't it interesting that some of the most significant 'revolutions' of the last twenty years have all had to do with writing? How retro is that? First we had email, then webpages, then mobile phone texting, and now blogs. All this reflects a trend whereby the world is becoming more formal in how it communicates. Instead of body language and endless conversations, communication has shifted towards endless words on a screen." Gerry McGovern, 23 August 2004
Added: 24 August 2004
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"Bloggers are people with attitude. They say there's a book inside everybody. Well, the Web and blogs have let the book out! There has literally been an explosion of opinion. Traditionally, public relations was about honing a silvery message that communicated exactly what the organization wanted us to hear. Now, we can hear all sorts of voices on the subject. It's true democracy at work."
Weblogs in Education: An interview with Will Richardson of Weblogged-com
"Will Richardson is an academic blogging advocate and the supervisor of IT and Communications at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ. He runs Weblogg-ed.com, an excellent blog dedicated to exploring weblogs in education. In this feature, he shares some views, tips, and ideas on the use of weblogs in education by teachers and students." Sheila Ann Manuel Coggins, About.com, 19 August 2004
Added: 22 August 2004
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WIll summarises: "I think there is enormous potential in using Weblogs with students, specifically in the areas of collaboration and constructive learning. Blogs allow teachers to create assignments that have meaning and relevance beyond the school year and beyond the classroom walls. They allow students to contribute to the larger body of knowledge out there and to become a part of conversations that were not possible before. I think they are a great learning tool for teachers and students, and they teach literacies that students will need to learn to participate more fully as citizens and community members. Everyone should be a blogger!
RSS: the next big thing online
"RSS is in its infancy - the earliest stages of its adoption - but the velocity and mass of its adoption confirms it to be one of the most important developments in the distribution of media content in a number of years." MediaThink white paper, July 2004
Added: 21 July 2004
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White paper is 2 Mb PDF to download
Creation of a learning landscape: weblogging and social networking in the context of e-portfolios
"The e-portfolio is for many a recognised tool employed for a multitude of purposes: employment; assessment; life-long learning; professional development; accreditation of prior learning. The number of institutions adopting some type of e-portfolio system has risen dramatically over the past two years. The e-portfolio is altering learning pedagogy and for some creating a truly learner-centric knowledge environment. ... This short report will explore one idea which could help address the problem of learner engagement creating a scenario where students want to use the system therefore be at the centre of the whole e-portfolio process and in turn, through engagement, benefit from the deep learning potential. David Tosh and Ben Wedmuller, The University of Edibnurgh, 5 July 2004
Added: 17 July 2004
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Using blogs as e-portfolio tools
"Put a child in front of a computer and you can be sure they will know how to play games and find some good joke websites on the internet. But put pupils from the after-school 'blogging' club at Hangleton Community Junior School in Hove, West Sussex, in front of a computer and they'll show you web pages they've created themselves." Teachers Magazine, July 2004
Added: 16 July 2004
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Another article on the 7-year old bloggers at Hangleton Junior School
"This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. Such a project requires a multidisciplinary approach, and contributions represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others." University of Minnesota
Added: 25 June 2004
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"the first scholarly collection focused on blog as rhetorical artifact, {is also} also taking an innovative approach to intellectual property and to publishing."
Blogging with the boss's blessing
"More companies are helping employees to speak freely -- and bond with customers." Michelle Conlin and Andrew Park, BusinessWeek, 28 June 2004
Added: 22 June 2004
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Looks at the use of blogging within businesses. "This is nothing less than revolutionary," says Dave Winer.
"Why are more and more people getting their news from amateur websites called blogs? Because they're fast, funny and totally biased." Lev Grossman, Time Magazine, 13 June 2004
Added: 16 June 2004
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A long piece about how people are using blogs in America
"Weblogs are sometimes criticised for being the self-obsessed ramblings of people who have little to say and too much time on their hands in which to do it. But there are gems out there - including many sites created by children. " Giles Turnbull, BBC, 14 June 2004
Added: 14 June 2004
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How blogs are being used in the classroom
Want to get your message out? Start a blog
"What would you think if I told you about a guaranteed method to reach 100% of your target audience? Beyond that, what would you think if I told you that you could develop a base of prospects who would look forward to hearing from you? You can do this, and more, by starting a blog." Skip Lombardi, 6 June 2004
Added: 14 June 2004
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An overview of blogging
"Tired of browsing around the Web for timely information? RSS readers deliver exactly the news you need--fast." Bob Stepno, PC World Magazine, July 2004
Added: 9 June 2004
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Includes a comparison chart of RSS readers
"To many, weblogs are an outlet for amateurish journalism, but as an educational tool they can allow students to develop ideas and invite feedback. Stephen O'Hear is a fan." Guardian, 8 June 2004
Added: 8 June 2004
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Discusses the use of blogs in education and includes an interview with Will Richardson, weblogg-ed.com
RSS: Grass roots support leads to massive appeal
"The major attraction of RSS for Web developers is its simplicity. (In fact, RSS is often known by an alternative name, Really Simple Syndication). An RSS file can be created from scratch using nothing more than a simple text editor and sample file as a template, posted to a Web server as though it were a Webpage, and retrieved and read by a wide variety of applications." Stephen Downes, Learning Circuits, June 2004
Added: 8 June 2004
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"RSS is a technology with a strong future, strong because of its simplicity, flexibility, and utility."
How to use weblogs to create engaging learning experiences
"Why are weblogsso successful? Apart from being very easy to use, I feel that there are three key attributes that have contributed to its success: 1) personal point of view, 2) chronological nature and 3) byte-sized posts. Together, these three attributes help create experiences that are both engaging and memorable. In this article, I will outline a design method that incorporates these weblog attributes." Maish Nichani, Australian Flexible Learning Community, 5 June 2004
Added: 1 June 2004
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Conclusion: "I would like to stress that the informal and engaging attributes of the weblog format can be used even in the light of tightly scheduled and highly focused training situations. The simple alternatives outlined in this paper can liberate us from the tyranny of product-oriented delivery and help us build continuous, engaging and memorable learning experiences."
"Our internal use of Weblogs has greatly accelerated, and we're beginning to see more tangible benefits as we've begun to reach a critical mass of internal contributors." Chad Dickerson, InfoWorld
Added: 30 May 2004
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"InfoWorld's internal Weblog started as an experiment. Already, it's indispensable."
For some the blogging never stops
"Blogging is a pastime for many, even a livelihood for a few. For some, it becomes an obsession. Such bloggers often feel compelled to write several times daily and feel anxious if they don't keep up. As they spend more time hunkered over their computers, they neglect family, friends and jobs. They blog at home, at work and on the road."
Added: 27 May 2004
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How blogging can become compulsive
"This chart displays attributes of different user-installed blog software packages side-by-side for comparison. Only server-installed scripts will be included in this list. (Sorry, no Radio, Blogger, etc.) I created this chart to help figure out what blog tool best suited my needs. Hopefully, it will be useful to the self-hosted blogging community as well." Asymptomatic
Added: 24 May 2004
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A comparison of server-based blogging software
Camera phones fuel mobile diaries
"So what if camera phones take lousy pictures? The fun is in the sharing - and chronicling the unexpected." Eric Butterfield, PC World, 6 April 2004
Added: 9 May 2004
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How image sharing can be free and easy
Added: 9 May 2004
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This is Trevor Ettenborough's Webquest written for the WOW conference at ASU West.
"This article will help you understand not only what RSS is, but also why it's getting the hype it is in the world of content, what its potential is in the learning arena, and how it's already being used in educational settings." Eva Kaplan-Leiserson, Learning Circuits, May 2004
Added: 8 May 2004
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Looks particularly at the use of RSS for learning purposes
"RSS: For folks like myself, (research and news junkies) it is 10 times more productive to read RSS than HTML (regular web sites)... No wait for browser loading. No looking for "what's new." No distractions. Same font for all content (easier reading). Some have said it is like "Tivo for the Web". I think the same may hold true for mobile devices." Phillip, daily wireless, 9 April 2004
Added: 9 April 2004
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Includes a list of RSS readers for mobile devices
"for anyone in the business of locating and redistributing information, RSS should prove to be especially useful. Educators in particular are looking to RSS as an effective means of identifying and redistributing timely and relevant content sourced from an increasingly unwieldly Web at large, learning object repositories, and even local desktops and networks. " Graeme Daniel, wwwtools for education, 4 April 2004
Added: 4 April 2004
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A collection of links about RSS
RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators
Added: 31 March 2004
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A great document from Will Richardson, covering Setting up an RSS feed reader, Using RSS feeds in the classroom and more
"A closer look at why people blog", Bonnie A. Nardi, Diane J. Schiano, Michelle Gumbrecht, Luke Swartz, submitted to Communications of the ACM
Added: 25 March 2004
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An interesting analysis of blogging styles and behaviour
The XML Files: All about blogs and RSS
Aaron Skonnard, MSDN Magazine, April 2004
Added: 25 March 2004
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An excellent explanation of blogging - but particularly RSS
"Edublogs and their associated literature now constitute some of the richest lodes of online learning resources available. This edition of WWWTools for Education can do no more than sketch a mud-map of the current territory, scratch the surface a little, and point to some tools for delving deeper." Graeme Daniel, wwwtools for education, 20 March 2004
Added: 21 March 2004
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An updated look at blogs used in education.
"Opinion columnists may not have views any better than your own, but they have one thing you probably don't-an audience. Fortunately, you don't have to convince J. Jonah Jameson to hire you. A blog can help you disseminate your views, and a hosted blog service can help you get started cheaply and easily. You can write about politics, gardening, your cats-anything you like. Depending on the service, you can post to your blog by browser, e-mail, or even phone. Enthusiastic bloggers can post breaking news before Peter Parker makes the scene." Neil J Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 December 2003
Added: 4 March 2004
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Reviews a number of blogging tools
How to create your own RSS feed
"Creating a basic RSS feed for your Web site is pretty easy, even if you aren't comfortable with technology or programming." Amy Gahran, ...Contentious, 6 February 2004
Added: 25 February 2004
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Some advice on creating a simple feed if your blog tool doesn't support RSS
How to use RSS to know more and do less
Added: 20 February 2004
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Reviewer's Noe: Another presentation by Jenny Levine, an academic librarian, and the owner of the Shifted Librarian blog. This one explains RSS
Added: 20 February 2004
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This is a presentation on blogging by Jenny Levine, an academic librarian, and the owner of the Shifted Librarian blog. It provides a lot of very useful information about blogging. It's a big file.
Trackback: Where blogs learn their places
"Interaction, the ability to comment on posts of others, was a feature of the earliest blogging tools. While commenting on the postings of others facilitates a certain amount of communication, the threshold to form communities is still far too high. The individual publishing paradigm of the blog has taken a turn toward community." Phillip D Long, Syllabus Magazine, October 2003
Added: 15 February 2004
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"Tools like TrackBack extend the blogs by providing markers between sites that can facilitate the creation of community.
Content delivery in the "blogosphere"
"In this article, we will describe the pedagogy behind blogs. We will address the reasons why blogs should be used as one of many teaching and learning tools, as well as describe the potential benefits of blogs for educators. Drawing on our own research and teaching, we will conclude with specific strategies for using blogs in the classroom." Richard E Ferdig and Kaye D Trammell, THE Journal, February 2004
Added: 7 February 2004
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A good overview of the potential for the use of blogs in educational contexts.
RSS: A Primer for Publishers and Content Providers
"These guidelines have been produced by EEVL, the Internet guide for engineering, mathematics and computing, as part of a JISC funded PALS Metadata & Interoperability project which aims to encourage the sharing of news and alerts in machine readable formats."
Added: 4 February 2004
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Excellent resource with links to RSS tools
Blogging and RSS - The "What's It?" and "How to" of powerful new web tools for educators
"The internet has long been valued by teachers and librarians as a powerful research and communications tool, and in the last 10 years, it has brought about a sea change in the way students find, manage, and use information. But the promise of the Web as more than just a readable, searchable resource has been slow to be realized ... until now. Two new Internet technologies, Weblogs and RSS (Real Simple Syndication), are redefining the way students and teachers use the Internet, turning them from mere readers into writers to the Web as well, and making it easier to filter and track the ever-growing number of resources coming online each day. In fast-growing numbers, educators across the country and throughout the world are finding just how powerful this new interactive Internet can be." Will Richardson, Information Today, Jan/Feb 2004
Added: 7 January 2004
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Why blogging is important for education and how to get started
"Everything from gossip to homework shows up onscreen in these cyber diaries."By Elizabeth Armstrong, Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2003r
Added: 14 December 2003
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Looks at how a high school pupil blogs
"This page is designed to provide you some resources if you want to get started using blogs for yourself or with your students. The use of blogs in instructional settings is limited only by your imagination." University of Houston
Added: 14 December 2003
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Some useful links on how to use blogs in education
Matrix of some uses of blogs in education
"A big caveat here - this matrix very much approaches the topic in the context of 'formal' education, and only really considers students, instructors and 'the rest of the net' as actors." EdTech Post, 9 October 2003
Added: 11 October 2003
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This is an article from a blog itself. Make sure you click the link to the matrix.
Blogging across the curriculum
"A course resource for the Interactive Digital Design Program at Quinnipiac University"
Added: 30 August 2003
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Covers areas like "What is a blog?" and "Blogs and Teaching" amongst others
"Blogs are a great way to put information on the Web. They're fast to implement, and most blogging solutions are dirt cheap. Here's who's using them.." Jay Cross, Learning Circuits, August 2003
Added: 3 August 2003
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Who's using blogs and how
How to Create an RSS Feed With Notepad, a Web Server, and a Beer
"Step One: Getting Ready Notepad: an RSS file is a plain text file. This means it can be created with any ordinary text editor. Windows Notepad will do the job. You can also use Wordpad or even MS-Word. But you will have to be sure to save your file as plain text ..." Stephen Downes, 29 July 2003
Added: 30 July 2003
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A step-by-step guide
"Is this a revolution in academic discourse, or is it CB radio? In one form or another, that question inevitably arises in conversations with scholars who have taken up the habit of writing Web logs, or "blogs." David Glenn, Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 June 2003
Added: 13 June 2003
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All about academic blogging
"""This paper discusses different questions of weblogs in context of higher education. It is focussing on three loosely coupled questions: 1. How can the weblog format improve discourse? 2. How it can weblogs support teaching at universities? 3. What are the institutional benefits of weblogs in universities? It seems obvious that these questions relate to each other and therefore probably should be discussed in context. The document grew out of a wild collection of speculative thoughts and notes. It is also based on some daily experience with weblogs in an educational setting."" Oliver Wrede, Blogtalk conference paper, 23-24 May 2003"
Added: 2 June 2003
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Using RSS and weblogs for e-learning: an overview
"New technologies are continually coming to the fore, and many of them have applications to e-Learning. Weblogs and RSS (an XML standard for distribution of information) are making substantial progress in 2003. This overview will give you a taste of what is being done with these by early adopters. You may find some ideas that will meet your needs to do things more simply and cheaply." Bill Brandon, eLearning Developers Journal, 19 May 2003
Added: 24 May 2003
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You will have to subscribe to the eLearning Guild to gain access to this article
More than personal: the impact of weblogs
"If you have heard about weblogs at all, you have probably heard of them described as being similar to a personal journal or diary. There is an element of truth in this observation. Weblogs began as an outgrowth of personal home pages, they contain a series of dated entries, and a great many weblogs are little more than personal reflections or talk about how the writers spent their day." Stephen Downes, May 2003
Added: 10 May 2003
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Includes a list of weblogging resources
"A running compilation of why weblogs ideas from various sources..." weblogg-ed
Added: 25 January 2003
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Some thoughts from different sources on how it can be used in education
The Blogging Phenomenon: An overview and theoretical consideration
"In this paper, I will seek to explore the meaning and significance of the blogging phenomenon. I will begin this exploration by looking at the definition of the term, the origins of the phenomenon, and how individual blogs might be classified. From there, I will look at the strengths and weaknesses of the medium, and finally examine the phenomenon though several theories of Mass Communications." James M Branum, Final Term Paper for Theories of Mass Communiction, Southwest Texas University
Added: 7 January 2003
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An "academic" discussion of blogging with a useful bibliography
"It's the latest trend in weblogging: moblogging - or posting thoughts to your weblog from wherever you might be, via mobile phone or handheld device." Jane Perrone, Guardian Unlimited, 12 December 2002
Added: 15 December 2002
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An introduction to the concept of moblogging
The Art of Blogging - Part 2: Getting started, "How To", Tools, Resources
"The best way to learn to blog is to blog. Fortunately, getting started is fairly simple. Three main options exist: hosted, remote server, and desktop." George Siemens, elearnspace, 6 December 2002
Added: 7 December 2002
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The second part of this summary of blogging - for first part, see directly below
The Art of Blogging - Part 1: Overview, definitions, uses and implications
"Blogging is using a new medium for what it is good for - connecting and interacting. Blogging is a first generation tool built on, and taking advantage of, the unique attributes of the Internet. It has been dismissed as a self-centered passing fad...and as the new model of interactive journalism, communication, and learning. This article explores the the uses, benefits, implications, and art of blogging" George Siemens, elearnspace, 1 December 2002
Added: 5 December 2002
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An excellent summary of blogging.
Secret CIO: Beware The Blog In Your Company's Future
"The last thing you want are uncontrolled and ever-expanding records of individual activities." Herbert W. Lovelace, InformationWeek.com, 9 September 2002
Added: 12 September 2002
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An article anti-blogging in organisations
Choosing a blogging package for students
"I was recently commissioned with the task of selecting an appropriate blogging tool for our upcoming Intellectual Property Weblog class. Selecting blogging software is becoming increasingly tricky, in part because there are so many packages out there, and because so many of them are so good. All have been appending each other's features as time goes on, making their advantages progressively less distinct." Scot Hacker, O'Reilly Network, 23 August 2002
Added: 25 August 2002
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Scot tests 5 packages and then makes his final selection
"More and more people are keeping weblogs - diary-style websites on which they post commentaries and recommend links. Here is our guide to the phenomenon." Guardian, August 2002
Updated: 2 August 2002
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Includes information about weblogs, lists of weblogs and how to build a weblog
Weblogs in education - Edublogs?
"Our intent this week is to briefly survey the uses of Weblogs in education, with passing reference to pros and cons, problems and issues; the adoption of Weblogs by librarians is a related topicwhich really deserves separate treatment." Kevin Cox, Web Tools Newsletter
Added: 28 July 2002
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A round-up of some of the recent reviews about blogging in education as well as some links to some interesting edublogs
"For most people, though, blogs won't be a replacement for conventional news outlets. It's more likely that bloggers and journalists will use the tools and techniques of weblogging to create complementary informational channels." John Foley, InformationWeek.com, 22 July 2002
Added: 26 July 2002
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Another analysis of blogging
Blogs, Bloggers, Blogging, and the Blogosphere
"The Weblog is arguably one of the most interesting Web-based genres to have emerged from the hothouse development of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Opinions and arguments to identify the First Blog continue to bounce around." Kevin Cox, Web Tools
Added: 22 July 2002
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An excellent round-up of the subject area
Blogs as disruptive technologies
"How weblogs are flying under the radar of the Content Management Giants." John Hiler, CEO Webcrimson, 24 June 2002
Added: 25 June 2002
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Weblogs as a disruptive technology to CMS
"An interview with John Hiler, editor of Microcontent News." John Rhodes, WebWord.
Added: 25 June 2002
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A discussion on blog usability, blog basics, the blogosphere and the future of blogs
"Every day it seems another article about weblogs appears in the press. At first, most of these stories seemed content to cover the personal nature of blogging. But more and more I'm seeing articles that attempt to examine the journalistic and punditry aspects of weblogs prominent in many of the so-called "warblogs," or sites that began in response to the events of September 11th." Meg Hourihan, O'Reilly Network, 13 June 2002
Added: 24 June 2002
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Meg, a weblogger, explains what being a blog author is all about
"One of the country's most respected training grounds for professional reporters has become the first school to offer a class on the 21st century symbol of do-it-yourself journalism. Next fall, a handful of students at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism will convene weekly to learn about blogging from John Batelle, a co-founder of Wired magazine, and Paul Grabowicz, the school's new media program director." Noah Shachtman, Wired, 6 June 2002
Added: 7 June 2002
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Blogging to be taught as an academic subject
"using weblogs in education"
Added: 7 June 2002
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Will Richardson logs the use of weblogs in education
Flash: blogging goes corporate
"Not only has the company started to tailor its software to the needs of people who run their own weblogs, but it's also dived headlong into the much-hyped "blogosphere" itself, setting up its own weblogs as a way to nurture ties with its customers. Macromedia calls this "the blog strategy," and some see the company's moves as the start of a trend. These days, it's almost unfashionable for a self-respecting Webophile to not have his own blog; if Macromedia's effort is any indication, soon a tech company that doesn't embrace weblogs may seem equally dated." Farhad Manjoo, Wired News
Added: 10 May 2002
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This brief extract says it all.
"Blog stands for Web-log, an informal personal Website. Thousands of people blog every day. (Blog is both a noun and a verb.) I've blogged for 18 months, and I'm convinced that blogs are destined to become a powerful, dirt-cheap tool for e-learning and knowledge management." Jay Cross, Learning Circuits, April 2002
Added: 20 April 2002
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Reviewer's Note: DON'T miss Jay's own blog Research on Learning and Performance
Write a better weblog - "After posting my own short list of things that ought to be banned from weblogs, I realized that a list of things to be encouraged would be more useful. Some people are new to weblogging. Others want to raise the bar. In the end, everybody wants better sites, and some of these suggestions might help. The bulk of this advice focuses on writing, which is generally at the heart of weblogs. All of them are obvious yet often ignored, to the detriment of both the readers and the writers. They're aimed at people trying to improve the general appeal of their weblogs, but folks writing privately for friends and family might also find them useful." A List Apart, 22 February 2002
Added: 25 February 2002
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Some advice on how to write a weblog
Weblogs Make the Web Work for You
"Weblogs, or "blogs," are spreading faster than mushrooms on a wet lawn. Most are awful. But a few are well worth your time." DylanTweney,Business 2.0, February 14, 2002
Added: 22 February 2002
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The future of weblogs?
"A recent overlooked Web trend-overlooked by the mainstream media, at least-is the proliferation of public diaries, generically referred to as Blogs. The term originated from "WeB log" and was further promoted by pyra.com as a Blog at its www.blogger.com site, although www.pita.com is considered the original source of easy-to-use Web logging. People who "Blog" are called Bloggers, and right now there are hundreds, thousands of Blogs on the Net." John C Dvorak, PC Magazine
Added: 15 February 2002
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A good overview of blogging
A tale of one man and his blog
"Blogger has revolutionised personal websites. Now, its only member of staff tells Neil McIntosh it's time to take blogging to the next stage" Guardian, 31 January 2001
Added: 1 February 2002
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An article on the impact that blogging (and Blogger in particular) has had on the web
An introduction to RSS news feeds
"RDF Site Summary (RSS) files, based on XML, provide an open method of syndicating and aggregating Web content. Using RSS files, you can create a data feed that supplies headlines, links, and article summaries from your Web site." James Lewin, The Lewin Group, 1 November 2000
Added: 1 February 2002
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A detailed look at creating RSS files
"Will user-friendly Web log software make it easier for employees to share knowledge? Steve Alexander, Online Learning Magazine, September 2001
Added: 3 September 2001
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Using blogging software for knowledge sharing
"A blog is a web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically -- like a what's new page or a journal. The content and purposes of blogs varies greatly -- from links and commentary about other web sites, to news about a company/person/idea, to diaries, photos, poetry, mini-essays, project updates, even fiction." Blogger.com
Added: 18 July 2001
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A succinct definition of blogs from the Blogger tool people
Jay Cross of Internet Time Group presents his thoughts and a collection of resources on weblogs
Added: 17 July 2001
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You can also view Jay's own e-learning weblog: http://www.internettime.com/itimegroup/research.htm
Grassroots KM through blogging
"In this article, we share our experiences with a strategy and technology so simple in design, that it could present the next wave of grassroots KM implementations. We are talking of the "storytelling" as the killer strategy, and "blogs" as the killer technology. Both of them share one common ground: grassroots interaction - a concept voiced by the likes of John Seely Brown, Larry Prusak, Steve Dennings, Dave Snowden, David Weinberger, among other prominent KM personalities." Maish Nichani and Venkat Rajamanickam, elearningpost, May 2001
Added: 17 July 2001
Reviewer's Note:
A comprehensive look at how blogs are a good way of storytelling.
