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"“Probably the best place to start thinking about what your blog should be about is to consider what YOU are about.”"
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Another Reason for Libraries to Make their Sites Social
I’m finding that I’m far more likely to bookmark something if there’s a direct link to post it to Delicious, and that workflow will continue for me until there’s a Pre app that makes this easier, which means I really appreciate sites that offer this. Even better is if you can add it so that it appears in your RSS feed so that it shows up in places like Google Reader and Bloglines, too.
Here are some options to consider for adding this functionality to your site.
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- For WordPress blogs, you can use the Sociable plugin (I’m sure there are others, but this is what I use so I know it works). I have another blog post brewing on this topic, but this is yet another reason I encourage libraries to make their “what’s new” page a blog – you can then use the wealth of plugins out there to improve the user’s experience.
I’m finding that I’m far more likely to bookmark something if there’s a direct link to post it to Delicious, and that workflow will continue for me until there’s a Pre app that makes this easier, which means I really appreciate sites that offer this. Even better is if you can add it so that it appears in your RSS feed so that it shows up in places like Google Reader and Bloglines, too.
Here are some options to consider for adding this functionality to your site.
- For WordPress blogs, you can use the Sociable plugin (I’m sure there are others, but this is what I use so I know it works). I have another blog post brewing on this topic, but this is yet another reason I encourage libraries to make their “what’s new” page a blog – you can then use the wealth of plugins out there to improve the user’s experience.
Georgia Library Media Wiki - GLMA Summer Institute Web 2.0 Resources
Lists of Library Blogs---Using Web 2.0 In Your Library Program---
Library Blogs
Blogs Are Not Just Web Logs | The Ten Commandments Of Social Media | Fast Company
"I actually erased 100% of my website and I recreated it, the entire website, using blog software (WordPress). Now anytime I add a page, anytime I make a change to a page, Google indexes me in 30 minutes with priority preference. Does that have any value to you?"
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I heard a rumor that the search engines were giving blogs preferential treatment in their indexing. For the last several years I taught search engine optimization, and search engine marketing in more than 100 cities each year. I know that Google and Yahoo! take about 12 to 14 days from the time you create a new webpage until they index it. Twelve to fourteen days to index your page.
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Thirty minutes from the time I hit “publish," my blog page was indexed by Google and I was sent an alert. Thirty minutes! Not 12 to 14 days.
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Infinite Thinking Machine
Blog: Infinite Thinking Machine ---
Blogs may be the most common source of RSS feeds.
Support Blogging! - Links to School Bloggers
"Links to School Bloggers"
Information Literacy meets Library 2.0: Search results for blogs
This blog will give the editors, Peter Godwin and Jo Parker, and the contributors to share news and comment about developments over coming months. It will also replace Peter's previous blog "Information Literacy meets Web 2.0".----Blog v. Twitter
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Looking at the list of number of posts I havent been posting so much lately. I
know it's been the summer sillly season as I call it, but that is not the whole
story. I follow over 30 blogs and the posts are getting less.
Surely twitter
has a lot to do with this. It so easy to do a quick post on twitter with a URL.
THis is especially true now that delicious has made it easy to add a twitter
post. I reckon it might take me a couple of minutes to do a twitter post as
opposed to at least 10 to do a blog post. Of course the latter gives me the
chance to give more detail, quote, or comment so I shall continue to use both
and choose my blog posts from the more meaty items I come across.
Web 2.0 in the Classroom: 33 Ways to use blogs in your classroom and in the educational setting
"Drawing a blank on how you might use a blog in your own classroom? Here's a list to jump start your creativity. By no means is this list exhaustive; there are as many ways to use blogs in education as there are to use paper."
Web 2.0 in the Classroom: Using Blogs to Promote Authentic Learning in the Classroom
Resources for those educators wishing to learn more about blogging for themselves and/or their students.
blogging+research.pdf (application/pdf Object)
What happens when ELA students are taught to blog? Conclusions and results from a teacher's experience.
Student Reflections on Night by Elie Wiesel
"This blog was created in 2005 to allow students at Cold Spring Harbor High School in Long Island, New York and at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, Michigan to share their reflections upon reading the autobiographical memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. A new round of blogging continues in the 2009 school year. Students throughout the United States and from other nations are invited to post comments."
The Digitally Re-Shifted School Library: A Conversation with Christopher Harris | ALA TechSource
"Chris, what would you say to the librarian that whispers: “We are so far behind, what can we do?" in respect to schools that don't allow iPods and outlaw blogs.
CH: In some recent workshops I have held about blogging, I have encountered this same type of question. One of the things I repeatedly address is the need for school libraries to adapt practices in order to meet new, outside pressures. We know that the big thing facing schools right now is the whole issue of standardized testing and accountability under No Child Left Behind (NCLB). So, one of the things we worked on was the creation of a testing-information blog, which is being used to disseminate information about testing, through librarians (as information experts), to our member school districts.
We also need to ask ourselves: How can libraries work to be a foundation—as demonstrated in the librarians' standardized-testing info. blog above—to support blogging and podcasting within the overall school environment? "
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Chris, what would you say to the librarian that whispers: “We are so far behind, what can we do?" in respect to schools that don't allow iPods and outlaw blogs.
CH: In some recent workshops I have held about blogging, I have encountered this same type of question. One of the things I repeatedly address is the need for school libraries to adapt practices in order to meet new, outside pressures. We know that the big thing facing schools right now is the whole issue of standardized testing and accountability under No Child Left Behind (NCLB). So, one of the things we worked on was the creation of a testing-information blog, which is being used to disseminate information about testing, through librarians (as information experts), to our member school districts.
We also need to ask ourselves: How can libraries work to be a foundation—as demonstrated in the librarians' standardized-testing info. blog above—to support blogging and podcasting within the overall school environment?
SL2.0: Synthesis 2.0 - Infomancy
"My perspective comes from being a classroom teacher, an instructional technology teacher, a technology coordinator, and now a school library system coordinator. Some might say this means I am not a “real librarian” which is okay with both of us (I went and created a much cooler sounding profession - infomancer!) though I will say again that I am proud to be a part of the library profession. "
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I have continued to push for changes and improvements for our profession.
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My perspective comes from being a classroom teacher, an instructional technology teacher, a technology coordinator, and now a school library system coordinator. Some might say this means I am not a “real librarian” which is okay with both of us (I went and created a much cooler sounding profession - infomancer!) though I will say again that I am proud to be a part of the library profession.
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Teaching on the River: Our First School Wide Project Based Immersion Project
"Teaching on the River: Our First School Wide Project Based Immersion Project "
They used technology as they took photographs, blogged, and created videos and shared with others on the Ning.
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This past week, the students had science by taking water samples and going back to the lab to determine the water purity - is it drinkable? What quality level is it? They had history by looking at artifacts collected along the riverside in the past. They interviewed experts and historians who live along the river to get their stories. To learn math, they did detective work on hydrology and the massive flooding we had here in 1994, 1998, and recently in 2009. Their literature came in the form of writing poetry while sitting alongside the flint. Their art classes came from the photography and videography. They used technology as they took photographs, blogged, and created videos and shared with others on the Ning. PE was in the form of kayaking or getting on a pontoon boat. Lunch was a picnic on some sandbar or boat dock.
blogging-unit.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Blogging with Elementary Students
Brain Based Bloggin'
Current educational research as it relates to blogs--
"How does blogging relate to what neuroscientific research says is good learning?"
Home | ResearchLogTemplate
"This ResearchLogTemplate will guide you on your journey and help you learn to navigate the rich information landscape in your selected area of inquiry. It is designed to help you reflect on the research process and to involve your peers, your teachers, and your librarian in collaborating in that process. Use it to plan, manage, and organize whatever media you choose for communicaton."
Intel Education: An Innovation Odyssey Day 299
"Publishing a weblog offers students and teachers a powerful and immediate way to communicate, connect, and collaborate. An Innovation Odyssey looks at how this online publishing tool is promoting learning."
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Turnbull used the weblog as a tool for managing the I-Search assignment. Students used the Web site to suggest questions they wanted to research. When they selected one topic to explore in depth, they used the weblog to track what they were reading for research and to keep a record of their reactions to what they were learning. Their online I-Search journals gave Turnbull an assessment of students' reading comprehension, as well as an insight into their critical thinking. That kind of perspective can't be found in a bibliography of sources consulted.
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