Blogging in the AIS class
This is the material from the powerpoint slide show presented at the AIS Educators Association meeting at Copper Mountain by Carol M. Jessup on 7/1/2003. I had promised attendees that I would post the slide content. Here it is!
Overview of blog presentation
Explain blogs and categorization as to types
Getting started: free items to more technical expertise
Cautions and benefits of classroom blogs
Educational applications and others
Demo aisclass blog (view and publishing)
Demo new aiseducators blogger (new platform of blogger)
Your “steps” handout details the setup (4 steps)
Show how to update the blog with link and text
Demo some blogging tools
What is a blog?
Recent tool for communications
1999 blogging software arrived Blog is short for web log
Web page, log of interesting stuff text, images, sound, links
Chronologically ordered Archived automatically
Blog - used as both a noun and a verb Initial use - a personal tool to journal
Types of blogs
Private/Public
For your own eyes only, but archived on the net or For the world’s eyes, if they can find your url
Author/publisher
Single individual
Small group, team, or classroom
Hosting Mechanism
Hosted by free or paid service
Remotely installed
Desktop installed on user’s computer, then uploaded
Getting started
Check out blogging resources
Blogroots.com has tools, accessories, directories
other blogs provide perspective of content and process
Google indexes major blogging platforms
Begin with the free software, blogger.com. It has text only, images and sound cost you $50 to $100 annually
Blogspot.com will host free of charge (ads will show up)
Other options for setup include Radio Userland, Moveabletype, groksoup, greymatter, Drupal, Tinderbox ….recent promise of AOL to provide this service
Beware!!
What are your objectives?
May be as interesting as “overheard coffee shop conversation” or like a “friend that make you look at their scrapbooks”
Follow the principles of “fair use”
Realize your postings have potential to boomerang
absence of publishing background does not mean anything goes…..potential legal woes
what if wrong person finds it?
Benefits of classroom blogging
Exposure to an interface that lets students see HTML, XML, and RSS (rich site summary)
teaches them to test that their design is implemented as intended
Limits excess email and the content does not get lost
Allows statistical tracking of viewers (sitemeter.com)
those who bookmarked site or were referred by other sites linking to your site or were referred by search engines
Can be used in lieu of course management system
Recent Educational ApplicationsClassroom applications
Resource for reference in topical areas
Community builder
“hive brain” - collective thought process or the “point of intersection where opinion makers gather”
retain alumni interest and input
Higher Ed supporting and lending credibility
Harvard’s World of weblogs at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu
Yale’s Conference “Revenge of the blog” Nov. 2002
MIT’s blogdex - a tool for indexing and ranking blogs
Other Recent Applications
“Tool to democratize the web”
Uncensored and publishing in the shortest time possible
Trent Lott’s controversial comments (mainstream media follows)
Iranian Sina Motallebi imprisoned April 2003
for interviews with press, and defending a journalist’s cartoon
Business Use - both internal and external
Internal teams - current on projects, archive milestones/mistakes
External - marketing (ala Raging Cow), Partners in firm share regular stream of online information to clients
Mid- June 2003 ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies Conf & Expo
Recent tools Moblogging - mobile using PDAs or cell phones
Technorati - lets you take a url and generate list of bloggers who have commented
Class sites
http://aisclass.blogspot.com
This is the material from the powerpoint slide show presented at the AIS Educators Association meeting at Copper Mountain by Carol M. Jessup on 7/1/2003. I had promised attendees that I would post the slide content. Here it is!
Overview of blog presentation
Explain blogs and categorization as to types
Getting started: free items to more technical expertise
Cautions and benefits of classroom blogs
Educational applications and others
Demo aisclass blog (view and publishing)
Demo new aiseducators blogger (new platform of blogger)
Your “steps” handout details the setup (4 steps)
Show how to update the blog with link and text
Demo some blogging tools
What is a blog?
Recent tool for communications
1999 blogging software arrived Blog is short for web log
Web page, log of interesting stuff text, images, sound, links
Chronologically ordered Archived automatically
Blog - used as both a noun and a verb Initial use - a personal tool to journal
Types of blogs
Private/Public
For your own eyes only, but archived on the net or For the world’s eyes, if they can find your url
Author/publisher
Single individual
Small group, team, or classroom
Hosting Mechanism
Hosted by free or paid service
Remotely installed
Desktop installed on user’s computer, then uploaded
Getting started
Check out blogging resources
Blogroots.com has tools, accessories, directories
other blogs provide perspective of content and process
Google indexes major blogging platforms
Begin with the free software, blogger.com. It has text only, images and sound cost you $50 to $100 annually
Blogspot.com will host free of charge (ads will show up)
Other options for setup include Radio Userland, Moveabletype, groksoup, greymatter, Drupal, Tinderbox ….recent promise of AOL to provide this service
Beware!!
What are your objectives?
May be as interesting as “overheard coffee shop conversation” or like a “friend that make you look at their scrapbooks”
Follow the principles of “fair use”
Realize your postings have potential to boomerang
absence of publishing background does not mean anything goes…..potential legal woes
what if wrong person finds it?
Benefits of classroom blogging
Exposure to an interface that lets students see HTML, XML, and RSS (rich site summary)
teaches them to test that their design is implemented as intended
Limits excess email and the content does not get lost
Allows statistical tracking of viewers (sitemeter.com)
those who bookmarked site or were referred by other sites linking to your site or were referred by search engines
Can be used in lieu of course management system
Recent Educational ApplicationsClassroom applications
Resource for reference in topical areas
Community builder
“hive brain” - collective thought process or the “point of intersection where opinion makers gather”
retain alumni interest and input
Higher Ed supporting and lending credibility
Harvard’s World of weblogs at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu
Yale’s Conference “Revenge of the blog” Nov. 2002
MIT’s blogdex - a tool for indexing and ranking blogs
Other Recent Applications
“Tool to democratize the web”
Uncensored and publishing in the shortest time possible
Trent Lott’s controversial comments (mainstream media follows)
Iranian Sina Motallebi imprisoned April 2003
for interviews with press, and defending a journalist’s cartoon
Business Use - both internal and external
Internal teams - current on projects, archive milestones/mistakes
External - marketing (ala Raging Cow), Partners in firm share regular stream of online information to clients
Mid- June 2003 ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies Conf & Expo
Recent tools Moblogging - mobile using PDAs or cell phones
Technorati - lets you take a url and generate list of bloggers who have commented
Class sites
http://aisclass.blogspot.com
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