Blogging to Enhance Learning Experiences: Examples and Resources
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Blogging to Enhance Learning Experiences: Examples and Resources
Table of contents
1. Examples of Practice [edit]
5. Beaut Blogging Tools [edit]
5.1. Editors
5.1.1. Client-side: On your computer:
5.1.2. On the web:
5.1.3. Browser based ??
Examples of Practice [edit]
- Kathy Cassidy's class blog from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
- Michael Griffith's reflection (.doc) on his use of blogs for university students
- Barbara Dieu's high school EFL class blog from Sao Paulo, Brazil (pages with std links on the right sidebar)
- Dekita Exchange (classes blogging) and Dekita Orchard (aggregation of students' posts)
What students say [edit]
- "I would say that for your first years blogs are a great tools for getting things off their chest and also for building connections with other students" Tamara Gardner
- "I've found that through the blogs not only are you more able to get to know the people in your classes, but you find them more approachable..." Tamara Gardner
Resources [edit]
- Is Blogging Accessible to People with Vision Loss?
Alec Couros' wiki Digital Literacy and Emerging Educational Technology has a page about blogs. - Disruptive Technologies: social software in education
- Blogs and community: launching a new paradigm for online community. article by Nancy White
- A Blogger's Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium, article by Danah Boyd
- For anything related to using Web 2.0 in the classrooms see Will Richardson's blog
- Barbara Dieu's 2005 Workshop on Weblogging Wiki
- OWP2007 del.icio.us list on Open and Participatory Resources and Web 2.0
- Aaron Campbell's Comparative Review of Blogging Tools
- P2P (peer to peer) and Learning Ecologies article (Dieu, Campbell and Ammann)
- The Virtual University: models and messages
Participants Blogs [edit]
- Michael Griffiths, Literature & Life
- Michael Rees, Impressions Scholarcast
- Terry Wassall, blog at elgg.net and blog at Leeds Uni elgg.leeds.ac.uk
- Heather M. Ross, McToonish and OpenThinking
- SCoPE members' blogs
Beaut Blogging Tools [edit]
- Edublogs provides free blogs for teachers and K-12 students, and for higher education students. For a fee, Edublogs Premium supports a customised, controlled blogging environment.
- Photobucket (http://photobucket.com/) - easy way to upload still and video images into your blog.
- Flickr.com (digital photography album and social networking platform)
- WordPress.com (open source free platform on their server)
- Wordpress.org (open source personal install on your server)
- Wordpress MU (open source multi-user install)
- Performancing plug-in for Firefox
- Blogger.com
- iobloggo.com
- http://elgg.net/
- Windows Live Writer
- WriteToMyBlog supports Flickr and Youtube
- Flock
- LiveJournal x
- GoogleDocs - option to post to multiple blogs
- Movable Type
- Blogmeister
- Bloglines
- Freewebs
- .Mac
- Edublogs
- desktoptwo
- b2evolution
- wBloggar
- Deirdre's annotated tool Wiki
Editors
Editing in many blogs is poor. The main issue seems to be management to images and media files.I've just thrown these in here for now, anyone else if welcome ot add/edit.
Client-side: On your computer:
qumana http://www.qumana.com/download.htm (Free)windows life writer http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/
innova studio http://www.innovastudio.com/editor.asp ($US69)