Blogging

Using Blogs to Enhance Critical Reflection and Community of Practice

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!

Another blogging platform to explore! Looks like it has some nifty safety features and students do not have to have an e-mail.

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.

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

Good presentation about blogs in ed

On an e-journey with generation Y

My reflection on how twitter accomodate on demand learning. It aslo ahve instructions on how to join the workshop on blogging.

Lots of really useful tutorials on how to use Wordpress.

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

Some good advice!

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.

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.