Blogs

=Blogs=

media type="custom" key="4171065" Blogs in Plain English on You Tube The word Blog is a contraction of the words "Web log". The word Blog was coined in the late 1990's to identify Web sites that consisted of the postings from private individuals who felt they had something important to say to the world. According to Rebecca Blood's [|Weblogs: A History and Perspective], "The original weblogs were link-driven sites. Each was a mixture in unique proportions of links, commentary, and personal thoughts and essays." Blogs have evolved into a more public form of journaling. Blogs are now primarily Web sites where the author AKA editor can post information and visitors to the Blog can make comments. Though Blogs are interactive Web sites, on a Blog, no one is able to change anyone else's comment or post.
 * Blogs in Plain English** is a short Teacher Tube video that describes what a blog is.

Blogs for Educators
Please add other educational blogs that you find below (in alphabetical order):
 * **2 Cents Worth: Teaching and Learning in the New Information Landscape** - Go to [] for David Warlick's blog for educators.
 * **Alice Barr's Blogs:**
 * **The View from My Window** - []
 * **Technology and Education** - []
 * **Billions of Bytes** - []
 * **CT Educational Technology** - Go to Karen Kaplan's ( blog for updates on technology-related state and federal grants and initiatives at: []. Karen is the Educational Technology Consultant for the Connecticut State Department of Education and the Executive Director for the Commission for Educational Technology.
 * **EduBlogs** - Go to [] to create a free account and build a blog site specifically for teachers and/or students.
 * **Teaching in the 21st Century** - Go to [] for Jane Cook's blog on teaching and learning in the 21st Century. To read excerpts of Jane's blog stored on this Wiki, go to: http://techsi.wikispaces.com/Teaching+in+the+21st+Century
 * **The Power of Educational Technology** - Go to [] for Liz Davis's blog.
 * **The Write Space** - Go to [] for Jason Courtmanche's blog.
 * **Kathy Schock's Kaffeeklatsch** - Go to [] for Kathy Schrock's blog for educators.

Other Blogs of Interest
Please add other blogs of interest that you find below (in alphabetical order):
 * **Long Tail** - Go to [] for an interesting blog from Chris Anderson.
 * **The Art of Language** - Go to [] for Ginny Bitting's blog that she uses for virtual literature circle discussions with her middle school students.
 * **Claire Cook's Blog** - Go to [] to read Claire Cook's Blog (author of __Must Love Dogs__)

Web-based Resources on Blogs
Click on the links below to learn more about Blogs and how to use them with your students:
 * [|Blogging for Students especially ELL students 4-3-08.doc] - This is an e-mail from the NWP English Language Learners Network Discussion with links to blog sites to get you started.
 * **Blogging is History: Taking Classroom Discussions Online** - [|Blogging is History] is an article by Helena Echlin published in Edutopia about "Tools for getting kids to think -- and to type -- about what they're learning".
 * **[|Blogs in Plain English]** -
 * **CWP Web Page with Links to Blog Resources -** []
 * **Schools, Blogs, Xanga and History, What's It All About Alfie?** - [|Schools, Blogs, Xanga and History] is a multi-part Blog post on Liz Ditz's //I Speak of Dreams// Blog that has some interesting comments about the use of Blogs. Remember that since it's a Blog, the views expressed are the author's views.
 * **Five Tips for Writing Better Blog Posts** - [|Five Tips for Writing Better Blog Posts] is a blog post by Sue Waters with simple tips to make blog posts more effective.
 * [|Weblogs: A History and Perspective] - Weblogs: A History and Perspective is a post on Rebecca Blood's //Rebecca's Pocket// Blog. Though it's dated 9/7/2000, it contains some interesting comments on how Blogs have evolved. Remember that since it's a Blog, the views expressed are the author's views.
 * [|Weblog Ethics]- Weblog Ethics is an excerpt from Rebecca Blood's book, __The Weblog Handbook__. It is posted on Rebecca Blood's //Rebecca's Pocket// Blog.

Blog Directories

 * **Blog Directory** - Go to http://www.blogcatalog.com/ for a social community for bloggers and a blog directory..
 * **Technorati** - Go to http://technorati.com/blogs/directory/ for a popular directory of blogs