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Your online journal. Collaborate and write “posts” on all sorts of different topics, or concentrate on your favorite things. Others can comment on posts and you can respond back!
Blogger.com is one of many online journals or blogs. Other examples are shown below.
Setting up a Blogger.com account
You will need to create a username/password and provide an e-mail address to set up a free Blogger account. Since Blogger is owned by Google, if you have a Gmail account you can log in with your Gmail username and password. Once you have created your account, you are free to alter your template to change how the information is displayed on your blog. Entries, called posts, can contain text, photos, and even embedded video. You can use pre-formed drag-n-drop templates OR if you know HTML you can use that to customize your “look” as well.
Users and Security
You can also invite people to contribute posts so that a group is blogging together, not just an individual. You can allow or not allow other bloggers to make comments on your posts and have the option of deleting any comments or posts as well. Comment moderation is very helpful as that allows you to screen every comment before it is posted. You can also require that anyone who comments must have a username—no anonymous comments allowed! The “captcha,” or “word verification” function is also handy to keep out spam-bots—to find out more, visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
In addition, when creating a new post or adding a photo, you have the option to save it as a “draft” so that you can add it later. Many of these functions are similar between blogging platforms—most all blogs share these features so it’s just a question of what you like best!
Examples and templates
Asynchronous participation is made possible through blogging. One way that a JCL reading group has stayed solvent despite scheduling difficulties: using a blog to communicate. It’s even kept teen members beyond graduation and into college! http://gryphonsanddragons.blogspot.com/
To make history and literature more interesting, some teachers are asking students to create MySpace profiles instead of writing term papers. Through the use of music, graphics, fonts, and dialect, these long-dead figures come alive... and even blog about current events and "friend" their contemporaries! See more in this SlideShare presentation, Who Would Jane Austen Friend?
If you visit Ashley’s site at www.whateverlife.com, you will see how one teen posting free blog templates (designs, or skins, to customize your “look”) has become a total mogul by selling ad space. She’s been on the View, interviewed by Fast Company, and more… and she’s only 17.
Teachers are using blogs in the classroom to bring more depth to student writing. Here are some guidelines an elementary class agreed on.
Other blog creation Web sites:
Your online journal. Collaborate and write “posts” on all sorts of different topics, or concentrate on your favorite things. Others can comment on posts and you can respond back!
Blogger.com is one of many online journals or blogs. Other examples are shown below.
Setting up a Blogger.com account
You will need to create a username/password and provide an e-mail address to set up a free Blogger account. Since Blogger is owned by Google, if you have a Gmail account you can log in with your Gmail username and password. Once you have created your account, you are free to alter your template to change how the information is displayed on your blog. Entries, called posts, can contain text, photos, and even embedded video. You can use pre-formed drag-n-drop templates OR if you know HTML you can use that to customize your “look” as well.
Users and Security
You can also invite people to contribute posts so that a group is blogging together, not just an individual. You can allow or not allow other bloggers to make comments on your posts and have the option of deleting any comments or posts as well. Comment moderation is very helpful as that allows you to screen every comment before it is posted. You can also require that anyone who comments must have a username—no anonymous comments allowed! The “captcha,” or “word verification” function is also handy to keep out spam-bots—to find out more, visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
In addition, when creating a new post or adding a photo, you have the option to save it as a “draft” so that you can add it later. Many of these functions are similar between blogging platforms—most all blogs share these features so it’s just a question of what you like best!
Examples and templates
Asynchronous participation is made possible through blogging. One way that a JCL reading group has stayed solvent despite scheduling difficulties: using a blog to communicate. It’s even kept teen members beyond graduation and into college! http://gryphonsanddragons.blogspot.com/
To make history and literature more interesting, some teachers are asking students to create MySpace profiles instead of writing term papers. Through the use of music, graphics, fonts, and dialect, these long-dead figures come alive... and even blog about current events and "friend" their contemporaries! See more in this SlideShare presentation, Who Would Jane Austen Friend?
If you visit Ashley’s site at www.whateverlife.com, you will see how one teen posting free blog templates (designs, or skins, to customize your “look”) has become a total mogul by selling ad space. She’s been on the View, interviewed by Fast Company, and more… and she’s only 17.
Teachers are using blogs in the classroom to bring more depth to student writing. Here are some guidelines an elementary class agreed on.
Other blog creation Web sites:
- What started as a SoCal music site has blown up into a cultural phenomenon.
- A blogger platform and an education-specific network. Powered by WordPress.
- WordPress (http://www.wordpress.com)
- Free blogs but will also power blogs on your existing site, too.
- Vox (http://www.vox.com)
Ning - Classroom 2.0
Ning is a social networking platform that lets you create your own network. You can blog and connect on Ning in much the same way you do on MySpace and other social networks... and they have a lot of great offers for educators, such as ad-free networks and more!
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