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.

Welcome EDLT Cohort Friends

I just wanted to welcome my colleagues from the EDLT Cohort. I encourage you all to add your contributions.

Maya Eagleton

Please allow me to introduce you to a researcher that I have found who has done some work with hypertext and literacy. Her name is Maya Eagleton. Please visit her website and read one of her publications:

http://earthvision.asu.edu/~maya/

I recommend her study about 'The benefits and challenges of a student-designed school website.'

From Our 'Skateboarding' Conversation

As we discussed uses of the Internet in education, I mentioned creating wikis and blogs as way of creating an online reading log for your personal use.

I'm using both of these and finding interesting features of each. Both are free and can be public, private, collaborative, individual, etc.

Using either one is great...

http://www.near-time.com

http://www.21publish.com

Also, take a look at these:

http://del.icio.us
Delicious is a fascinating social bookmark sharing and tagging tool. I highly recommend you get in and import your bookmarks!!

http://www.furl.net/ Haven't used Furl, but it's a similar tool.

http://www.flickr.com/ This is a fascinating photo sharing tool... You HAVE to go look!

So what did you find? Let's talk about it here in Technology Adventures.