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Blogs and Wikis

 

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What are blogs?

Are You Blogging Yet? 
Information Searcher article exploring the role the blogs in education

How are educators using blogs?

Weblogging to Success -
a short article about San Francisco middle school students' blogging experience

Weblogs in education video
video that was shown at the Intel conference keynote

In the Classroom, Web Logs Are the New Bulletin Boards
New York Times article describes the use of blogs in the classroom

Are there blogs for educators who blog?

Weblogg-ed: Using weblogs in education
Weblogg-ed is maintained by Will Richardson, Supervisor of Instructional Technology at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ to be a clearinghouse for sites and issues relating to Web logs in education
Educational Bloggers Network
Sponsored by the Bay Area Writing Project and Weblogger.com, the Educational Blogger Network (EBN) is a community of teachers and education professionals and supporters who use weblogs for  teaching and learning. The network assists members to advance weblog integration in education. It has lots of blogging resources for educators

Can you show me examples of school library, classroom, and school district blogs?

What about library blogs?

Peter Scott's Library Blog
Shifted Librarian
The Resource Shelf
Library Stuff
Library Weblogs  a list of library-related blogs arranged by country
Blogs without libraries - a listing of academic, public and school library blogs
Parent Child Book Club
The Blogger Book Club
Library Weblogs

 

What software/hosting is available to set up my own blog?

FREE sites:

A few extras...

Rebecca’s Pocket  a history of blogging
Weblogs.com  a list of blogs that have been updated in the last three hours
Bloglines - a comprehensive, integrated service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs, and rich Web content. It's free and easy-to-use.