Blogs, and Web 2.0
Joe Carr
Staff Development Facilitator
jncarr@k12.carr.org
Web 2.0 Assessment
• Bought something on Amazon.com?
• Bought something on eBay?
• Sold Something on eBay?
• Bought something on Craigslist?
• Sold something on Craigslist?
• Use Social Networking?
• Have a Facebook account?
• Have a Myspace Account?
• Checked out a Facebook or Myspace account
Web 2.0 assessment
• Watch a YouTube video?
• Added a video to YouTube?
• Have an aggregator to keep up with your rss
feeds?
• Own an iPod?
• Watch or listen to a podcast on your iPod?
• Created your own Podcast?
• Research using Wikipedia?
• Have your own Wiki?
• Share your bookmarks through social
bookmarking sites?
Web 2.0 assessment
• Have a yahoo email account?
• Have a gmail account?
• Do you have a Second Life Avatar?
• Do you twitter?
• Share your pictures using Snapfish? Flickr?
• Use free open source software? Firefox?
Audacity?
• Read a blog?
• Posted a comment on a blog?
• Do you have a blog?
Objectives
What you should know: What you should be able to
• Define and Describe Web do:
2.0 tools •Find Blogs
• Define a Blog •Read and Respond and
• Define and Describe RSS Participate in Blogs
• Define and Describe an •Subscribe to a blog in an
Aggregator aggregator
• Knowledge of ways to •Create a blog
use Blogs for your
professional use.
Today’s Agenda
• Define Web 2.0 and focus on blogs
• Good Quality Examples of blogs
• How to keep track of blogs…Aggregators
• Starting your own blog.
Legally used from YouTube.com courtesy of Zamzar.com
A blog is a Web site, usually maintained by
an individual with regular entries of
commentary, descriptions of events, or other
material such as graphics or video. Entries
are commonly displayed in reverse-
chronological order.
"Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning
to maintain or add content to a blog.
From:Wikipedia.org
History of Blogs
Top 10 Blogs
1. Huffington Post
2. Gizmodo
3. TechCrunch
4. Engadget
5. Ars Technica
6. Boing Boing
7. Life Hacker
8. Daily Kos
9. The official Google blog
10. Smashing Magazine
Will Richardson
www.weblogg-ed.com
David Warlick
http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/
Alan November
http://www.novemberlearning.com/
The Tech Teachers
http://www.thetechteachers.blogspot.com/
Steve Hargadon
http://www.stevehargadon.com/
Karen Fasimpaur
http://www.k12handhelds.com/mashups/
Hall Davidson
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/media_matters
Joe’s Place
http://joecarr.edublogs.org/
Finding Blogs
• Google Blog Search
• Technorati
• Authors you like
• Personal and Professional
Technorati
http://technorati.com/
Google Blog Search
http://blogsearch.google.com/
Keeping up with Blogs
• Aggregators
• my Yahoo
• Google Reader
• Bloglines
My Yahoo
Google Reader
Bloglines
Starting your own
• Edublog.org
• ClassBlogmiester
• Blogger
Edublogs
Baby Steps to Blogging
• Posting Assignments
• What we did in class today Posts
• Posting Links
• Links with Analysis
• Reflective writing, commenting on posts.
• Links to other blogs with analysis and
synthesis.
From Will Richardson’s Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts.
What’s on your blog?
• Use your blog to post your objectives,
homework assignment, worksheets,
PowerPoint presentations. (class portal)
• Use your blog to continue a discussion
held in your class.
• Use your blog as a collaborative space.
• Use your blog to promote writing across
the curriculum.
Technology Standards
•Practice responsible and appropriate use
Standard 2.0 technology systems, software, and information
Digital Citizenship •Demonstrate and understanding of current
legal standards
•Understand current online safety guidelines
•Use and explain how the technology enhances
Standard 3.0 learning and collaboration
Technology for •Use and explain how technology tools
encourage collaboration
Learning and
Collaboration
•Select and use technology to express ideas
Standard 4.0 •Use and explain how the technology can be
Technology for used to express ideas
Communication and
Expression
Safety
• Make sure that students, parents, • Establish process for reporting
and administrators are clear about problems (students)
the expectations and reasoning • Process in place for consistent
behind blogging. monitoring of student activity,
• A parent letter should be sent blogs and comments
home that: clearly explains your • Teacher’s role – promoting
plans and asks permission for effective uses
students to participate, includes a • Plan for how to evaluate a blog
description of the technology, how post
it will be used, what security
measures have been put in place • Blogging goes far beyond
(protect privacy), what your exchanging papers in a closed
expectations are of your students, classroom environment
and what the curricular goals are • Blogging should not be
for its use "journaling." This is more of a
• Set proper permissions on the writing genre that engages
blogging tool thinking and reflecting with words
• Managing student blogs and
settings
Actions List
• Use Google Blog Search or Technorati to
find a blog related to your subject
• Set up an Aggregator, my Yahoo, Google
Reader, Bloglines
• Create a blog on Edublogs.
Objectives
What you should know: What you should be able to
• Define and Describe Web do:
2.0 tools •Find Blogs
• Define a Blog •Read and Respond and
• Define and Describe RSS Participate in Blogs
• Define and Describe an •Create a blog
Aggregator •Subscribe to a blog in an
• Know of ways to use aggregator
Blogs for your
professional use.
Blog Search Links
• Technorati
http://technorati.com/
• Google Blog Search
http://blogsearch.google.com/
Blogs Links
• Will Richardson
www.weblogg-ed.com
• David Warlick
http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/
• Alan November
http://www.novemberlearning.com/
• The Tech Teachers
http://www.thetechteachers.blogspot.com/
• Steve Hargadon
http://www.stevehargadon.com/
Blogs Links
• Karen Fasimpaur
http://www.k12handhelds.com/mashups/
• Hall Davidson
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/media_
matters
• Joe’s Place
http://joecarr.edublogs.org/
Your Own Blog Links
• Edublogs
www.edublogs.org