Bloggin For A Purpose

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Bloggin For A Purpose

• Tricia ScottDelaware Center for Teacher
  Education
• DWP Technology Liaison
• tscott_at_udel.edu

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The New (?)Technology Literacy

• Greatest educational challenge is to prepare our
  students for the new literacies that will define
  their future
• (Leu, Mallette, Karchmer Kara-Soteriou, 2005)
• Technological literacy is knowledge about what
  technology is, how it works, what purposes it can
  serve, and how it can be used efficiently and
  effectively to achieve specific goals.
• (21st Century Skills, 2004)

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What is a BLOG?

• short for web log.
• online journal (or newsletter) of thoughts,
  philosophies, or comments
• frequently updated
• intended for general public consumption
• reflects the views of the blog's creator.
• blogging the activity of updating a blog
• blogger someone who keeps a blog

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Blogs ARE/Can Be

• more than an online journal
• mediums of reflective practice
• interactive and collaborative
• Hyperlinks
• Comments
• cross-linked to create on-line communities
• Structured in reverse chronological
• easy to use, WYSIWYG (html knowledge not
  necessary)

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Who Blogs?

• Adolescents/Teenagers
• Perseus Development Corporation 51.5 percent of
  all blogs are being developed and maintained by
  ages 1319 (Henning, 2003).
• Livejournal.com, a bloghosted Web sites, states
  that the largest distribution of blog authors
  also falls below age 20.

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Bloggin for Literacy Second-Third Graders

• Reading/writing connection
• Literature-based response
• Teacher modeling
• Parental permission
• Etiquette guidelines posted
• Anywhere, Anytime Thinking
• http//mrgreadingreflections.blogspot.com/
• http//www.mcgheec.blogspot.com/

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Bloggin for Reflection and Connection

• Youth Voices Coast to Coast
• http//www.bayareawritingproject.org/yvc2c/
• Hidden Histories
• http//blogs.writingproject.org/blogwrite138/.
• Digital Anthology
• http//www.digitalanthology.blogspot.com/
• Flat Stanley Project
• http//blogs.writingproject.org/blogwrite164/
• High School Blog
• http//jhh.blogs.com/blogwrite/

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Bloggin for Learning and Community Building

• The Delaware Technology Institute
• http//blogs.writingproject.org/blogwrite242/membe
  r/login
• Digital Literacy
• http//hickstro.thedigitalpaperchase.net/?p2
• CD 315 Computer Networking in Communication
  Disorders
• http//www.muwp.org/cd315/
• an information literacy course
• UC Berkeley Education 149
• http//www.bayareawritingproject.org/bawp82/
• introduction to language arts theory and
  methodology for teaching in the elementary grades

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Free Blogs
Blogs

• Blogger
• www.blogger.com/
• Class Chatter
• http//www.classchatter.com/index.php
• LiveJournal
• http//www.livejournal.com/
• iBlogs
• http//www.iblogs.com/
• Blog City http//www.blog-city.com/bc/index.htm
• BlogMeisterhttp//classblogmeister.com/
• Motimehttp//www.motime.com/
• Pitas http//www.pitas.com/
• Xanga
• http//www.xanga.com/

• TypePad
• http//www.typepad.com/splash/
• Manila
• http//manila.userland.com/
• Teacher Hostinghttp//www.teacherhosting.com/

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Your Blog Action Plan

• Guidance. What guidelines and scaffolding will be
  provided to assure student success?
• Model Use. Think about some rich prompts that
  will promote good discussion.
• Review the rules. Give a review on internet
  etiquette.
• Build the Blog. Create a title and description.
  Then review possible host service plans that best
  suit your purpose.
• Think about Assessment.
• Rubric

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Technology continues to influence the basic ways
in which we communicate, interact with one
another, and represent ourselves to the world.