Blog Introduction

Blog Introduction

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  Blogging (RSS &the Read/Write Web) Darrel Branson ICT Educator Sunraysia Mallee Schools Network www.smsn.vic.edu.au
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  Blogging, RSS andthe Read/Write Web Blog: A weblog, web log or simply a blog, as they are known are an easy-to-use web site (no HTML required), where you can quickly post thoughts, publish writing, and interact with people. Such a website would typically be accessible to any Internet user.
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  Blogging, RSS andthe Read/Write Web RSS: RSS stands for 'Really Simple Syndication' or 'Rich Site Summary' RSS is being used to provide items containing short descriptions of web content together with a link to the full version of the content.
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  Blogging, RSS andthe Read/Write Web The Read/Write web Will Richardson http://www.weblogg-ed.com/ The Read/Write web is about contributing to, and having a voice on the Internet as opposed to just being consumers of information.
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  http://www.bloglines.com/topblogs http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Weblogs/ ExampleWikis Wikipedia - Free encyclopedia written by everyone! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki books http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
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  Why is itpowerful? A way to improve writing Provide a real audience for writing An easy way to create a web site quickly Weblogs are a personal writing space. Easy, sharable, automatically archived. Weblogs are easily linked and cross-linked to form learning communities. Weblogs can become digital portfolios of students' assignments and achievements. Weblogs are a novice's web authoring tool.
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  What can youdo with blogs? What are the possibilities for weblogs in education? http://anvil.gsu.edu/NECC2004/stories/storyReader$13 post short current events articles to invite students thoughts, reactions, and possible solutions create a literature circle post photos and ask students to create captions foster book discussions in the form of an online book club post a daily/weekly synopsis of ﾊ the curriculum taught ･ homework assignments a birdseye view of the class for parents honour and celebrate class achievements
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  Get a bloghttp://www.edublogs.org/ http://learnerblogs.org http://www.blogger.com http://www.schoolblogs.com
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  Educational Blogs Schoolblogs http://www.westblatchblogs.org/ http://www.middleweb.com/mw/aaDiaries.html http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/pivot/index.php Education bloggers http://www.ebn.weblogger.com/ http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
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  Keeping track… RSSReally Simple Syndication Look for an RSS link or a button on a web page. Copy the ‘link’ from the blog. (Right mouse click the link -> copy link location or URL)
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  Keeping track… RSSReally Simple Syndication Copy the link into your News Reader
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  Keeping track… RSSReally Simple Syndication You should now be subscribed to the feed List of feeds List of topics Content of the post
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  Keeping track… RSS