Using+Blogs+in+Education

Weblog A weblog, or *blog, is a frequently updated website consisting of dated entries arranged in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first (see temporal ordering). Typically, weblogs are published by individuals and their style is personal and informal. Weblogs first appeared in the mid-1990s, becoming popular as simple and free publishing tools became available towards the turn of the century. Since anybody with a net connection can publish their own weblog, there is great variety in the quality, content, and ambition of weblogs, and a weblog may have anywhere from a handful to tens of thousands of daily readers. [|Read more...]

weblogs: a history and perspective
7 september 2000 In 1998 there were just a handful of sites of the type that are now identified as weblogs (so named by [|Jorn Barger] in December 1997). Jesse James Garrett, editor of [|Infosift], began compiling a list of "other sites like his" as he found them in his travels around the web. In November of that year, he sent that list to Cameron Barrett. Cameron published the list on [|Camworld], and others maintaining similar sites began sending their URLs to him for inclusion on the list. Jesse's '[|page of only weblogs]' lists the 23 known to be in existence at the beginning of 1999. [|Read more...]

(updated regularly) //We've created this wiki to support the "Teaching with Blogs" workshops, which are sponsored by the Alabama Best Practices Center and funded by a Microsoft Mid-Tier Projects grant. These online workshops were held in Elluminate on March 13 and March 15.// //Among the many other resources you'll find here are ALL the links used by Will Richardson and Gordon Brune in their workshop presentations and ALL the links mentioned in Direct Messaging during the live workshop sessions. We believe you'll find a number of resources on this page that help make the case for using blogging in the classroom. We've placed a Icon next to the resources we feel will be most useful in this regard!// [|Read more...]
 * TEACHING WITH BLOGS**
 * Alabama Best Practices Center Workshops**
 * Original Posted March 2006**