Free Blogging Tools
Literature About Using Blogs
Bortree, D.S. (2005). Presentation of self on the Web: An ethnographic study of teenage girls’ weblogs. Education, Communication & Information, 5(1), 25-39
- Blogs in Education: definitions and recommendations on getting started by Stephen Downes
- Educause resources on blogs: 92+ presentations, publications, podcasts, and blogs
- Jason Rhode's CiteULike Library: bookmarked blogging literature
- CiteULike: articles on blogging
- Rationale for educational blogging
- The use of blogs in education (Nguyen)
Books on Blogging in Education
Richardson, W. (2006). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Solomon, G., & Schrum, L. (2007). Web 2.0: New tools, new schools. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education
Warlick, D. (2007). Classroom blogging: A teacher's guide to to blogs, wikis, and other tools that are shaping a new information landscape. (2nd ed.). Lulu.com
Sample Instructor / Class Blogs
- Anita Saalfeld - Español 3040 (via @AnnAbbott)
- Jason Rhode - HRE472
- Jason Rhode - EDT 6030
- M Cecil Smith (via @niuprof)
Sample Student Blogs
- Kim Browning - HRE 472
- Tim Buteyn - HRE 472
- Marianna Desmond - HRE 472
- Rhys Moult - NET411 (via @rhysatwork)
- Ryan Minnick (High School Senior) (via @cat8canary)
- Learning Communities (using blogs) - University of Calgary
More Education Blogs
Sample Blogging Assignment Instructions
- Sample exploratory blog assignments (HRE 472)
- Sample resource sharing blog assignments (EDTC 6535)
How-to Videos
- RSS in Plain English [YouTube]
- Blogs in Plain English [YouTube]
- Google Reader in Plain English [YouTube]
- Introduction to Google Reader [Jing]
- Social Bookmarking in Plain English [YouTube]
- Organizing Feeds with Google Reader [YouTube]
- How to Use Flickr [YouTube]
- How to Add Images to WordPress Blogs Posts [YouTube]
- Adding Tags and a Tag Cloud to a WordPress Blog [Jing]
- Choose Where an Embedded YouTube Video Begins [YouTube]