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Blogging For Education
Posted September 24, 2006Hello bloggers! My name is Adam Bellinson, and I’ll be making periodic posts to this blog over the course of the semester. The purpose of this site is to equip educational bloggers with the tools needed to effectively use a blog for class. I’ll be discussing various methods to blogging including blog applications used on your server as well as posting applications used on your own, local machine.I’ve found a couple nice resources that I’d like to share to get you started.
- SupportBlogging is a wiki with a direct focus on educational blogging. I highly recommend this resource!
- This page of Free Tools for Teachers and Professors lists web and downloadable tools that are both free and useful for teaching. There are blogging tools, but also tools useful for creating bloggable content.
- Blogsavvy.net posted about How NOT to use blogs in education. This post has some good advice, and a constructive discussion on the topic follows in the comments.
Stay tuned for an article about RSS and how it can be used for very efficient blog consumption!
Comments
Mary Groom October 11th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Greetings,
I am a technology instruction coordinator at Jackson County ISD (down the road from MSU). I am trying very hard to get blogging going in our county but the tech directors and many others have questions and objections I don’t know how to answer. Here are some issues I’d like you to address please, and it can be on a blog or in an e-mail to me (or both).
So here are questions from one of our tech directors as they pertain to bloggs:
1). How do we, as tech directors, allow access to blogs for teachers, yet block access to blogg sites like MySpace from students?
2) It seems to me as though we are dancing on the minefield here and the teachers are pushing an agenda which is not compatible with the laws school operate under. How do get by DOPA and CIPA laws, as well as personal lawsuits from parents trying to protect their children.
3) (Non-blog question) On another topic, who do we provide email access to students (a new requirement under the State technology plan and curriculum) yet block student access to email as the CIPA law mandates?
Thank you! I look forward to reading more on your site and hopefully encouraging more teachers and districts to try blogging.
Mary