The State of Weblogs for Teaching and Learning

Trey Martindale and David Wiley. Presented at AECT Chicago. October 22, 2004

Thanks for coming to our presentation this past week. We had a packed room with about 60 participants, and had some great conversations with folks before and after about blog use. I've organized some resources and further reading on blogs for your reference. I'm going to continue to add to this page over the next few days. Here are some blogging resources, in various categories. With a little web searching on these topics you can find much, much more.

Martindale and Wiley paper

(draft version) about use of blogs in education.

Here are the slides from the Martindale and Wiley 2004 AECT presentation. They won't mean too much to you unless you were there. The slides are merely visuals, not a script to read to our audience, for which I'm sure they were very thankful. The stuff we talked about is best represented by the paper above, and the links on this page.

Martindale blog

Wiley blog

A Beginner's Guide to Blogs for Instructional Technologists, by David Wiley.

The Art of Blogging - Part 1
Overview, Definitions, Uses, and Implications

Martindale OPML file (Import this into your aggregator to get my list of 100 or so RSS feeds I subscribe to. Most are related to Instructional Design and Technology. You can easily delete any ones you don't want subscriptions to).

Blog Papers and Research

  1. Blogging articles I've read
  2. Papers of WWW2004 workshop on the weblogging ecosystem
  3. Communication dynamics: Discussion boards, weblogs and the development of communities of inquiry in online learning environments
  4. What are the Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs?
  5. Weblogs as a transformational technology for higher education and academic research
  6. Educational Blogging by Steven Downes
  7. Online Discourse: Past, Present and Future. by Ulises Mejias
  8. Instructional Models for Using Weblogs In eLearning: Case Studies from a Hybrid and Virtual Course

Aggregators

  1. Feed Demon for Windows
  2. NetNewsWire for Mac
  3. Bloglines

RSS

  1. Martindale RSS links
  2. QuickStart guide
  3. RSS compared to Email
  4. RSS reader comparison from PC World
  5. My example of Jobs in IDT, "reprinted" from the Chronicle.

Blog software

  1. Comparison chart
  2. Moveable Type
  3. TypePad
  4. Blogger.com
  5. Wordpress
  6. Xanga
  7. LiveJournal

Other neat blog tools

  1. Delicious -- social bookmarking
  2. Martindale Delicious site -- so you can see what I'm reading.
  3. Martindale RSS feed.
  4. Furl -- also social bookmarking
  5. Flickr -- post and share your photos, including commenting and RSS feed
  6. Technorati
  7. Blogdigger
  8. MarsEdit
  9. Ecto