blogs, bloggers, blogging

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blogs, bloggers, blogging

• affordances practice

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who am I?

• Christopher D. Sessums
• Director, Distance Education, College of
  Education
• Instructor, Educational Technology, College of
  Education
• Ph.D. candidate -- educational technology
• http//eduspaces.net/csessums/weblog

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What is a blog or weblog?

• Application
• Medium
• Publishing tool
• Broadcasting tool
• Aggregator
• Social tool

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What does a blog cost?

• Effort Time Attention Connectivity
  Literacy skills

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How have blogs impacted society?

• Disruptive technology
• Everyone can be a media outlet
• Redefining professions
• Rediculously easy group forming
• Social action
• Democratizing promise
• Self reflection
• Reveals how knowledge is socially constructed

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How do I use a weblog?

• Formal/Informal
• Purpose
• Commitment
• Passion
• Participation
• Share
• Connect
• Sandbox
• Self reflection
• Knowledge Base - Filter/Hub
• Feedback
• Fun

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Why do I use a weblog?

• My aim is to agitate and disturb people. Im not
  selling bread, Im selling yeast.
• -Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher
  (1864-1936)

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Questions? csessums_at_coe.ufl.edu http//eduspaces
.net/csessums/weblog