The Art of The Art of BloggingBloggingPresented byK.C. Boyd, Library Media SpecialistAUSL Wendell Phillips Academy High School

January 27, 2012

Today’s Presentation….

1. How blogging is used as a positive space for educational thinking, dialogue and reflection.

2. How blogging enables educators to develop a personal learning network that supports and challenges thought.

3. A review of resourceful blogs written by educators.

…a blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.

Darren Rowse ProBlogger.net

How Did I Begin???

How can blogging be used as a positive space for educational thinking, dialogue and reflection?

Discuss Authors/Books

Meet Authors and Librarians

Share Information

Share Experiences

Create New Projects

Online Journal

Reference

Document Personal Growth

How can blogging help educators to develop a personal learning network

that supports and challenges thought?

My Personal Learning Network

Blogger

Twitter

Linkedin

Google Reader

Google Plus

YouTube

TeacherTube

Vimeo

Black Librarian Nation

Slideshare

Wikispaces

Diigo

SecondLife

Sharing of Resources

Websites

Teaching practices

Free materials

Test Scoreshttp://vimeo.com/32690650

Something to Think About….

I’ve yet to hear anyone who has stuck with blogging suggest it’s been anything less than essential to their growth and improvement. I’ve no “data” to prove this but I’m willing to bet my golf clubs that teachers who blog are our best teachers.

If you look at the promise of Professional Learning Communities that our schools have invested thousands, more likely millions to achieve, blogs accomplish much of the same things. The basic idea of the PLC is to have teachers share practice/data and work in teams to make improvements. A good blog does this and more.

Dean Shareski, Digital Learning Consultant

K.C.’s Favorite Blogs

http://www.thedaringlibrarian.com/

http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/

http://theyayayas.wordpress.com/

http://www.streetliterature.com/

http://www.classroom20.com

http://thekindlebookreview.blogspot.com/

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Difference

Library Science and Technology Blogshttp://edublogawards.com/

Technorati Top 100 Blogshttp://technorati.com/blogs/top100/

FREE BLOGS!

http://wordpress.com/

http://www.blogger.com/

http://edublogs.org/

References

Dean Shareski, Huffington Post November 16, 2010

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-shareski/how-to-make-better-teache_b_783392.html

Michaelle Everson, eLearn Magazine November 2010

http://elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?aid=1920829

http://www.slideshare.net/kcboyd1