Blogs

Information about Blogs
A blog is a frequently updated web page of short journal entries (called posts) about the author’s opinions and thoughts, current news, links to interesting web sites, and much more. A blog is written in a relaxed, conversational style. Readers of the blog may make comments on the posts made by the author, allowing them to contribute to the conversation. Blog entries are listed in reverse chronological order – the most recent entries are at the top of the page. Teachers can use blogs to communicate with their peers, students, and their students’ parents. Some schools also provide individual blogs for their students. This provides a way for students to post their journal entries and for the teachers to respond back with their comments.
 * What is a blog?**

Blog is short for weblog, which is a descriptive name for what a weblog is – “web” for the World Wide Web and “log” because bloggers often include a list of interesting links to websites they have visited in their blog. In this way, others who are interested in the same topics have access to websites of special interest to them.
 * Where did blogs get their unique name?**

A short video created by Will Richardson, an educator at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey, USA. [|Weblogs in Education]

http://anne.teachesme.com/2004/10/05 - Classroom uses of Weblogs http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/tlmag/v_30/v_30_2_feature.html http://www.infotoday.com/mls/nov03/fichter.shtml
 * Information about Blogs for K-12 Educators**

http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bees/ http://bobsprankle.com/blog/index.html http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/ http://primaryblogs.suprglu.com/http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/blog/sanbornstudents/ http://mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblogging/ http://anne.teachesme.com/ http://handheldlib.blogspot.com/ http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/ [|Speaking of History] [|Cool Cat Teacher's Student Blog]
 * Example Blogs**

http://aamcolorado.mscd.edu/LibDayPres/WebLoggingSmall.wmv http://www.weblogg-ed.com/ http://www.recap.ltd.uk/Web2/weblogs.php http://librarian.net/ http://www.lisnews.com/ http://librarystuff.net/ http://liblog-usa.blogspot.com/ http://www.waterborolibrary.org/blog.htm http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/ http://bloggingineducation.blogspot.com/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/carraher/stories/storyReader$6 http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=Art_1299&issue=jun_05# http://www.ebn.weblogger.com/ http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html
 * Resources:**

http://wordpress.org/ http://edublogs.org/
 * Free Blog Providers**