Educational Blogging

Blogging helps encourage teen writing Survey reveals that student bloggers are more prolific and appreciate the value of writing more than their peers

This is the presentation that I prepared for VATE08, the annual state conference for the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English. It was a great experience, both in the preparation and presentation.

student short films by middle schools

A MUST READ!!! The Basics Brevity rules. Can you say it briefly? Start at the main point, then work the story up. (Make the main point in the first paragraph.) Use small words. You don't have to impress people. You have to be clear. Analogies help people

If you think of blogging as a conversation, it is hyperlinks that allow us to connect the voices together. It is a means for citing information, recognizing original ideas, and giving credit where it's due. It also allows us to make subtle recommendations

Another reason some bloggers have slowed down is sheer burnout. Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor at the University of Virginia, shuttered his popular blog, Sivacracy, in September, in part because he was exhausted by the demands. "When you run your own blo

look this over for Jan. 15th presenation-- some good new stuff here I haven't seen - W Fryer's vid focuses on hyperlinked writing -- take a look at downloading and using

In 2008, Twitter really started to hit the mainstream and bloggers began adding widgets to their sidebars to display their latest tweets. In 2009, Twitter will become much more tightly integrated with the rest of the blog in a variety of ways - watch out

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5 Sources for Free and Legal Images\nFiled as Guides on October 6, 2008 9:01 am by Jonathan BaileyEveryone knows that almost any blog post is better with images. However, getting them can be a difficult matter. With a maze of licensing and fair use issues

The PrincipalsPage.com Blog The Occasionally Humorous Thoughts and Ramblings of a K-12 Administrator

The study on teachers in the United States who are using blogging as an instructional practice has finally been completed. The study shows that teachers perceive a significant increase in student learning through motivation for assignments and through dee