Welcome to the Blog!

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Welcome to the Blog!

• May 21, 2007

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What is a blog?

• Wikipedia
• According to some guy at Harvard
• Assuming a Wiki is a weblog-like system that
  allows anyone to edit anything, then a Wiki
  represents an interesting amalgam of many voices,
  not the unedited voice of a single person.
• Weblogs are unique in that only a weblog gives
  you a publication where your ideas can stand
  alone without interference. It gives the public
  writer a kind of relaxation not available in
  other forms. That might mean that in some sense
  the "quality" of the writing is different, but I
  would not say lower, assuming the purpose of
  writing is to inform, not to impress.

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Will Richardsons Definition

• An easily created, easily updateable Website that
  allows an author (or authors) to publish
  instantly to the Internet from any Internet
  connection
• No knowledge of code required
• Easy as sending an email!

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Examples of Blogs

• Live reporting
• Conference feedback
• Journal add-on
• Share personal ideas

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Posting Guidelines

• From the Cool Cat Teacher blog
• If you mention it, link it.
• Get a good title.
• Write, then cut in half.
• Format sparingly
• Include a picture
• Tag it

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Educational Blogging

• Reading and Writing from Teachers and Students
• Blog as Administrative Tool
• Teacher sharing information with students
• Blog as Discussion Tool
• Teacher and students sharing ideas
• Blog as Publication Tool
• Students publishing their work online
• For more ideas
• Will Richardsons Thoughts
• Julies Insights

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Finding a Blog

• Blogger
• Google (web search)
• Technorati
• Hitchikr
• Blogrolls
• Collections of links
• found in blogs

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Purpose of TIE Blogs

• Leadlooking at leadership issues, often for
  administrators, but could also apply to other
  audiences
• Teachfocus on issues for the classroom, from
  teaching tools to technology integration
  discoveries
• Techaddressing the technology itself, possibly
  of more interest to technology coordinators,
  computer teachers, or those who are just plain
  techies

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Sign up for the TIE blogs!

• Go to www.tie.net
• Click on the link to the blog.
• Scroll to the bottom of the page.
• Follow the Subscribe link
• Click on Subscribe

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Next Steps

• Sign up for all three TIE blogs during the
  worktime
• Discussion on use of the internal staff blog
• Name that blog
• See you on the blogs!
• Questions?