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BloggerGoogle provides a quick and easy blogging tool called: Blogger.

Blogging is an activity that encompasses the gathering of information from multiple sources and remixing, mashing up or sampling the information found and synthesizing it into something new and different and publishing it. This is the essence of blogging.

Blog material can come from literature, podcasts, other blog posts. video, original works, collaborative works, etc. The essential idea behind blogging is the idea to add a third dimension to a traditionally two dimesional form of communication.In most works, there are two dimesions, height and width.

In blogging, the third dimension is depth. The blog author adds depth through the use of hyperlinks and multiple forms of media. The inclusion of the third dimension allows the consumer (reader) to interact with the media and ideas in new and different ways.

The reader can comment on a blog post, write their own blog post and hyperlink back to the original media material. This allows a conversation to occur, which is the fundamental difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. The video below is a short explanation of blogs.
Check out this great explanation of blogging


What are educational uses of Blogs?
  1. Information/Communication Tools: Teachers can post student writing, artwork, information about homework, upcoming events.
    Parents can have access to events and projects in your classroom.

  2. Online Filing Cabinets: Students and teachers can use a blog as a place to store assignments, links, plans, and handouts.
  3. Collaborative Tools: Students can extend conversations outside of the classroom, and collaborate with invited guestsfrom around the world and from within the community.
  4. Literature Circles: Book clubs can involve students and parents, or students from other communities.
  5. Online Discussions: Blogs can work as a discussion group for students and staff in every discipline: Science to reflecton labs, Social Studies for current events, English for prewriting on central themes of novels, etc.
  6. Professional Development: Teachers can use blogs as portfolios or as an archived discussion of their practice, both formal and informal.
  7. Writing tools: Students can have interactive electronic journals or post completed works to an authentic audience.

Workshop Outcomes (3 Easy Pieces!)
  1. Learn about Blogging and how to set up a Blog
  2. Brainstorm and collaborate on how Blogs might be used in your curriculum.
  3. Plan and outline class lesson or project for your students using Blogging
    • Find ideas from Blogs In Ed - A professional development wiki
    • Create a process for students to follow like the one in the graphic below from Dave Pollard's Blog, "How to Save the World."



  1. Write your own blog using 'Blogger' and use it to connect digital resources to the content that you are already covering in your class.
    • Model appropriate blogging to your students.
    • Create a 'cyber discussion' of material used in class.
    • Model the use of RSS feeds to your classes.
  2. Post a link to your blog in the comments section of this page.
    • If your students are blogging, create a blog post that has links to your students blogs and post the 'permalink' in the comments section of this page.
  • Blogging Process



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