Uses of Blogs vs. Blogging

So to help get the ideas flowing, I would like to share something from Will Richardson's book, p. 32. (for info see www.weblogg-ed.com).

What he presents is a list of uses of blogs and then kind of rates them in terms of how much "blogging" is really involved.

Basically the continuum he describes extends from posting assignments, through posting journals and links, on to annotated links, and links with analysis. Annotating links with analysis would be, according to Richardson, the simplest form of blogging.

From then on the levels of blogging complexify as the synthesis of metacognitive writing and links to a meaningful audience develop.

Richardson describes complex blogging as, "extended anlaysis and synthesis over a longer period of time that builds on previous posts, links, and comments."

Which brings me to my latest blogging realization, in order to understand blogging I need to immerse myself in complex blogging. Well, we've been doing this in many ways through our EDLT cohort. This is just the continuation of our journey -only into the blogosphere we go.