Blogs in Education
Blogs provide a communication space that teachers can utilise with students whenever there is a curriculum need to develop writing, share ideas and reflect on work being undertaken in the classroom. Education Department of WA
Background information about blogsBlog Basics for the Classroom An good introduction to blogging in the calssroom How to blog A blog providing an extensive rnage of tips on blogs and blogging. Research / resources about using blogsEducational Blogging An article in Educause Review about the value of blogging by Stephen Downes. Towards a framework for educational affordances of blogs An article on SCience Direct by Liping Deng and Allen Yuen Educational Applications of Web 2.0: Using blogs to support teaching and learning An article by Daniel Churchill in the British Journalof Educational technology Best Educational Blog sitesThe Edublog Awards These yearly awards showcase the best eductaional blogs. Top 20 Teacher Blogs As voted by Ashton Scholastic |
Tools for developing blogsEdublogs
This platform is designed specifically for teachers to use with their students. Wordpress This is becoming one of the most popular platforms for website and blog development. Tumblr Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private Livejournal LiveJournal (LJ) is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal differentiates itself from other blogging sites by its self-contained community and some social networking features similar to other social networking sites. Blogetry Blogetery.com offers free blog hosting powered by latest WordPress version. You can easily publish text, podcasts, pictures, media files and more with just a single mouse click. Blog Blog.com provides a fully-featured publishing platform for free. Blog by yourself or establish a writing community, all under an address that looks like: you.blog.com. It also offers free blog hosting with unlimited bandwidth for their free package, more benefits for paid members. |