Blogs

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Blogs

• 1st of 7 inNew TechnologiesBrown Bag Series

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What is a Blog?

• Any ideas? See also Weblogs
• How are they used?
• What are some commonalities?
• How do they differ?
• Lets search
• http//www.bhc.edu/index.asp?NID358
• http//educational.blogs.com/edbloggerpraxis/
• http//www3.essdack.org/socialstudies/blogs.htmSc
  roll down to Actual Blogs
• http//r144.com/article060.htm
• Is this a blog? http//lyonh.home.mchsi.com/Kayak/
  kayakblog.html

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How can they be assessed?

• http//hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog/archives/2005/05
  /10/notes-towards-assessing-blogs/
• http//marciahansen.com/weblog/archives/00000318.h
  tm
• Rubrics that specify quality ( quantity?) of
  postings expected.
• http//kairosnews.org/node/4177

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Additional Resources

• www.lights.com/weblogs/tools.html
• Online Learning Blog http//people.uis.edu/rschr1
  /onlinelearning/blogger.html
• http//www3.essdack.org/socialstudies/blogs.htm
• Free Blogger http//www.21publish.com/
• See John Looney (BHC ITS)