Blog2Learn

Process: Task 2

April 23, 2008 · 1 Comment


<Task 1 On to Task 3>

Visit more sites and sample blogs to define blogs and formulate ideas for using blogs–for yourself and with your students.

Blogs Defined:

Cool Tools: Blogging
Judy’s Web 2.0 Notes
What Blogging Is Not

(by Will Richardson)

What’s a Blog? (by Karl Fisch)
Read.Think.Write.Repeat.

(by Karl Fisch)

How to Start Blogging in 5.401 Words
Blog Vocabulary
Blog Rules
21st Century Learning
You have just examined some general features of blogs and explored many different types of blogs. But what, exactly, is a blog, and how can you use blogs in education? These are the key questions for this portion of the process.You will continue to work within your group to explore more blogs.

What, exactly is a blog?

On the left are several links to sites that attempt to explain blogs, blogging, and the blogging phenomena.

With your group, examine at least three of the Blogs Defined sites and create your own definition of a blog. As you create your definition, consider:

  • What are the key characteristics of a blog?
  • What makes a blog a blog?
  • Are there “essential elements” of a blog?
Educational Blog Lists:

Support Blogging

Blog2Learn

SocialNetworking4Teachers

Classroom 2.0

(find lists by subject and/or grade level)

Technology Specialists

Technology Training & Integration

TIP

Summer Workshops

Change Agency

Dangerously Irrelevant

Other Cool Resources:

10 Ways to Use Your Edublog to Teach

How can we use
blogs in education?

  • How are other educators using blogs?
  • How are administrators and specialists using blogs?
  • How are other teachers using blogs with their students?
  • Could you modify any the ideas to meet your own needs or students’ needs?
  • What is a task you currently undertake that you could tackle through a blogging?
  • What is one unit or lesson you currently teach that you might teach using blogs?

On the left are several links to sites that provide lists of educational blogs (sometimes called edublogs).

Locate and examine at least three blogs that relate to your current position. As you examine the blogs, discuss them with your group, and compile a list of ways blogs may be used in education.

** Now, to present your group’s findings in the first two steps, use the links below to post a response to these three questions:

  1. How would you define a blog?
  2. What labels would you give the many different kinds (categories or types) of blogs being used in education?
  3. What ideas do you have for using blogs in your practice and with your students?

On to Task 3

Categories: Blogging 101 WebQuest

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1 response so far ↓

  •   The Jimmy Dunn Group // Dec 10th 2008 at 1:19 pm

    Organization: all had links to videos, archives and resources, introduction that sets the tone at the top, credits at the bottom.

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