Examples of Blogs about Educational Technology
The reader may find these blogs interesting for both the
content, and as examples of blog interfaces.
- Teachable.org,
by Trey Martindale. Contains news, links, and commentary
on instructional design and technology. An example of a
WordPress installation.
- Iterating Toward Openness,
by David Wiley. Focuses on open source and social software,
and learning objects. This site is created with the Plone/Zope
open-source content management system.
- Weblogg-ed,
by Will Richardson. A widely-read blog about blog use in
education. It contains many useful links to articles and
presentations.
- Online Learning Daily,
by Steven Downes. A very widely read collection of links
and commentary about online learning. Updated daily.
Getting Started with Blogs
- A
Beginner's Guide to Blogs for Instructional Technologists,
by David Wiley.
- The
Art of Blogging. Overview, Definitions, Uses, and
Implications
- Martindale
OPML file. This file contains a list of 100 or so
RSS feeds, mostly related to Instructional Design and
Technology. To use this file, import it into your RSS
feed aggregator, such as NetNewsWire or FeedDemon.
- Blogging
Across the Curriculum. A comprehensive site with
examples of how blogs are being used in education.
|
Research and Commentary About Blogs
- Educational
Blogging by Steven Downes.
- Personal
Webpublishing as a reflective conversational tool
for self-organized learning, by Sebastian Fiedler.
- Communication
dynamics: Discussion boards, weblogs and the development
of communities of inquiry in online learning environments
.
- Instructional
Models for Using Weblogs In eLearning: Case Studies
from a Hybrid and Virtual Course.
- What
are the Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs?
- Weblogs
as a transformational technology for higher education
and academic research.
- Online
Discourse: Past, Present and Future. by Ulises Mejias
- Blogging
as a Course Management Tool by Jon Baggaley.
- Weblogs
at Harvard Law -- an article describing the university-wide
blogging initiative at Harvard.
- Into the
Blogosphere -- a collection of essays on the communicative
features and characteristics of blogs
- BROG Project (Blogging
Research on Genre) -- a collection of blog research.
- Papers of
WWW2004 workshop on the weblogging ecosystem.
|
RSS Feed Aggregators
Use these tools to manage RSS feeds (subscriptions) and
to find and read new content from your subscribed sites.
There are a large number of aggregators available for purchase,
or as free versions.
- RSS reader comparison from
PC World
- Feed Demon for
Windows
- NetNewsWire for
Mac
- Bloglines -- a web-based RSS feed manager.
Understanding RSS
- RSS QuickStart
Guide (PDF) by Will Richardson
- "What's
the Fuss over RSS?", by Brian Lamb
- RSS compared
to Email
Other Useful Related Tools
- Delicious -- a free
web-based tool for storing and sharing web links (also
known as social bookmarking).
- Furl -- a
similar tool for social bookmarking
- Flickr -- a free
or paid site for posting, sharing, and commenting on images.
- Technorati --
a free web-based service that tracks conversations and
links across millions of blogs. Blog authors can create
a Technorati account to track who is commenting on or referencing
one's own blog.
- Blogdigger -- a
search engine for blogs.
- Feedster -- a
search engine for RSS feeds
- Blogdex -- a research
project from MIT Media Laboratory that tracks ideas as
they move across the "blogosphere".
|
Blog Creation and Management Software
- Blog
software comparison chart by Owen Winkler. Compares
the features of various blog software packages
- Moveable Type --
widely used open-source server software for blog hosting.
Free for non-commercial use, and with paid support options.
You'll need some programming experience to install MT.
- TypePad -- paid version
of Moveable Type. Creates very impressive blogs for users,
with no technical skills required. $5 per month gets you
a really nice blog.
- Blogger.com -- a free
blog-hosting service, owned by Google. A very simple way
to create a blog.
- Wordpress -- free
or paid blog hosting
- Xanga -- free or paid
blog hosting
- LiveJournal -- free
or paid blog hosting
|
