Blogging tools and samples
What is a blog?
What is a blog? TheWeblogProject - the first open-source movie documentary about blogs and bloggers.
Blogging Samples
apcampbell Blog Archive Interactive Webpublishing 2006
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Bee’s blogs
Barbara Dieu’s blog at Blogger.com, Good example of blog.
Barbara Dieu’s - Bee - Blog at Edublog
Barbara Dieu power Point presentation for BAW06 week 3.
USA CONNECTION - bee’s blog with students.
This project has brought together seventy 8/9th grade students from the Lycée Pasteur, the Franco-Brazilian school in São Paulo and students from 9 schools all over the United States. It was planned and conducted by Barbara Dieu, teacher of English as a Foreign Language , with the help of teachers from different areas.
Ewan’s blogs
edublogs - Ewan’s Blog
Ewan Mcintosh shows how blogs and podcasts aren’t just a gimmick: they can be used to provide powerful learning.
Elgg - Community Learning Space
Musselburgh Grammar School Online Home - mgsOnline
Welcome to Musselburgh Grammar School’s international learning zone, funded by Learning & Teaching Scotland’s ICT Enhancement Awards. The funding was received in order to emulate the success of the school’s languages website, Multilangs.co.uk, and the project is managed by Ewan McIntosh of the Modern Languages Department.
Paris-Normandy 2004 - students blog
Paris-Normandy 2005 - students’ blog
Blogs by pupils from Musselburgh Grammar School while they were in France for the annual history and French trip.
Blog aggregators
Bloglines is a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines, there is no software to download or install — simply register as a new user and you can instantly begin accessing your account any time, from any computer or mobile device. And it’s FREE!
eslblogs.org
eslblogs.org has been conceived as an extension of the incsub.org project aimed at providing teachers, students, researchers, librarians, writers and other education professionals with freely available emerging technologies.
edublogs.org
We provide free blogs for teachers, researchers, librarians and other education professionals.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works.
Dekita.org highlights the Web-publishing work of EFL (English as a Foreign Language)/ESL (English as a Second Language) students, showcases the classroom Web-publishing projects in EFL /ESL and introduces links relevant to personal Web-publishing in language learning contexts. Dekita.org also serves as a means for learners, educators, and other interested people to locate student Web-publications and participate in the conversation.
Netvibes.com is a custom made web 2.0 home page solution
This service is free and gives the user the ability :
- to create a personalized page with the content they like.
- to put together data feeds and services from web 2.0 with a very simple interface
- to access your page anytime and from any computer.
Weblog Applications for EFL/ESL Classroom Blogging - A Comparative Review
Language teachers looking to use weblogs in their classes have a multitude of software applications from which to choose. As most have little experience with blogging, selecting the right software can not only be confusing, but distinguishing between which features of each are important and which are not, can render the entire process overwhelming. The purpose, then, of this article is to help teachers new to blogging through this selection process by discussing what is important when choosing a blogging application and comparing the features of some of the available applications.
Blog searching tools
Technorati - Blog Tracking
Technorati brings you what’s happening on the web right now. Technorati lets you search sites that update with extreme frequency, like blogs and news. Unlike other engines, our results are individual posts (portions of pages), so they’re more specific. Search results are listed newest to oldest, and are often only minutes old! A Watchlist is your one stop to see what people are saying about the sites and subjects you care about. Just add a few searches and we’ll monitor them on your watchlist page in real time. Claiming your blog in Technorati allows you to customize the way it’s presented here. You can add your photo and description, include it in Blog Finder, and even add cool Technorati tools to your site.
