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A blog-shorthand for "Web log"-is an online collection of personal commentary and links. Blogs can be viewed as online journals to which others can respond that are as simple to use as e-mail. The simplicity of creating and maintaining blogs means they can rapidly lead to open discussions. Faculty are using blogs to express their opinions, promote dialogue in their disciplines, and support teaching and learning; students increasingly use blogs for personal expression and as course requirements. By carefully evaluating blogs' strengths and weaknesses, educators are learning to set guidelines and expectations to maximize blogs' instructional benefits. Structured exercises and clear goals are further enhancing the educational value of blogs. Put into practice with an understanding of their benefits and limitations, blogs are an increasingly accepted instructional technology tool.

The aim of this workshop is to get teachers and members of NGO's (my 2 pet favourate groupings :-) to create and maintain a focussed blog while supporting one another using twitter. We will use twitter as our main communication channel and explore how it can help us to do advocacy for our blog, get quick ideas and discover the learning magic! This way we should be able to get into the habit of "blog-twitting" and also explore how we can use it in all aspects of our lifes, organisations,schools. The blog can be a personal blog, school blog, class blog or a organisational blog!

Blogging is becoming more and more popular in the classroom. Teachers can blog to stay in touch with parents and students or they can incorporate blogs from all of the students as a learning tool. The beauty of the student blog is that children from Kindergarten to high school can blog. No matter how you use blogs in your classroom, these tools will help you get started, enhance your experience, or bring the students into the fun.

Blogging is nothing new to students, but students blogging as a part of class is. It can be a daunting task to any teacher, especially those that aren't exceptionally tech savvy. To remedy that, we have put together an easy-to-understand guide for setting up a teacher administered student blog. The goal of the tutorial is to guide any teacher through the process of setting up their first blog for students, and steps them through how to gain the most out of security.

The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger."'

A compilation of 25 basic styles of blogging including tips on how often to use each and potential to create buzz and blog traffic by using each

Should I Blog?

Using Blogs to Enhance Critical Reflection and Community of Practice

Good presentation about blogs in ed

Now you can start your own blog community. It uses a Wordpress engine, so it will be quite familiar!

There are easy and free ways to add all kinds of media to your Wordpress.com blog. This post explains how to add photos, video, audio, text and mixed media documents to your blog

Here's a collection of most useful blog add-ons or extras that can be easily integrated with any website and will help in enhancing your visitors' experience. All these 15 add-ons are free and you don't have to be a geek to use them on your site.

How To Embed A Google Calendar In Your Blog Sidebar

"Blogger-Training School" for a Student "Blogging License": A Silver Bullet?

Interesting idea to focus blogging

Lots of blogging resources here with links to articles, ed bloggers etc....

Great post with lots of little tips links and advice.

All the introductory videos to help you get into blogging with edublogger