Blogging to Enhance Learning Experiences: Examples and Resources
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Examples of Practice
- Kathy Cassidy's class blog from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
- Michael Griffith's reflection (.doc) on his use of blogs for university students
What students say
- "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
- Is Blogging Accessible to People with Vision Loss?
Alec Couros' wiki Digital Literacy and Emerging Educational Technology has a page about blogs. - 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 Workshop Wiki
Participants Blogs
- 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
- 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.
- WordPress
- 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