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One Path to the Blog An Odyssey in Tracking and Sharing Technology with the Online Higher Education Community
By Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus/Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning, University of Illinois at Springfield
These excerpts are from the full article located at the above url, that my colleague Ray wrote about his experiences in sharing technology knowledge over his career. I only included the excerpts pertaining to blogs.
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Web logs, or blogs. This seemed to be a technology that might catch on. I even created a test blog to share with students early in 2000. We poked and probed the blog for a couple of terms. While it was simple in design-little more than a Web page with automated chronological posting functions-the very simplicity and character of this technology is what made it appealing. …
Now, I maintain three blogs with daily postings of news and research items in online learning, technology
for higher education, and technology for k-12. I scan dozens of online news and journal sources each morning beginning before 6:00 A.M. central time and are generally completed by 8:30 A.M. I select items that seem most relevant to current issues and trends in this developing field. In the spirit of fair use, and with the objective to serve the scholarly, academic community with links to relevant news and information, I post minimal information, quoting only a few lines of copy to identify the topic and relevance of each item, and provide an active hyperlink to the full report or article. The intent, after all, is not to replace the
reading of news sources, but rather to encourage blog readers to visit the cited sources and engage in scholarly reflection and discourse on the topics, technologies, and trends.
Using the free Site Meter Web site tracking service (http://www.sitemeter.com)….Fully one third of the visitors come from Google and Yahoo! searches for information related to online learning. Many of those visitors view multiple pages as they drill for specific information on their selected topics. Perhaps most interesting is the number of visitors that access the blog from distant points around the globe. The time zone tracking feature of Site Meter-which uses a sampling of 100 visits-consistently shows that there are visitors coming from sixteen to twenty different time zones around the world. And one third of these are from time zones outside the Americas.
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Categories of Visitors
By viewing the page from which the visitor arrives at the blog, it is easy to see that the majority of visitors fall into three general categories: those who have bookmarked the blog, those who are referred
by a number of sites linking to the blog, and those who are referred by search engines.
One Path to the Blog An Odyssey in Tracking and Sharing Technology with the Online Higher Education Community
By Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus/Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning, University of Illinois at Springfield
These excerpts are from the full article located at the above url, that my colleague Ray wrote about his experiences in sharing technology knowledge over his career. I only included the excerpts pertaining to blogs.
…
Web logs, or blogs. This seemed to be a technology that might catch on. I even created a test blog to share with students early in 2000. We poked and probed the blog for a couple of terms. While it was simple in design-little more than a Web page with automated chronological posting functions-the very simplicity and character of this technology is what made it appealing. …
Now, I maintain three blogs with daily postings of news and research items in online learning, technology
for higher education, and technology for k-12. I scan dozens of online news and journal sources each morning beginning before 6:00 A.M. central time and are generally completed by 8:30 A.M. I select items that seem most relevant to current issues and trends in this developing field. In the spirit of fair use, and with the objective to serve the scholarly, academic community with links to relevant news and information, I post minimal information, quoting only a few lines of copy to identify the topic and relevance of each item, and provide an active hyperlink to the full report or article. The intent, after all, is not to replace the
reading of news sources, but rather to encourage blog readers to visit the cited sources and engage in scholarly reflection and discourse on the topics, technologies, and trends.
Using the free Site Meter Web site tracking service (http://www.sitemeter.com)….Fully one third of the visitors come from Google and Yahoo! searches for information related to online learning. Many of those visitors view multiple pages as they drill for specific information on their selected topics. Perhaps most interesting is the number of visitors that access the blog from distant points around the globe. The time zone tracking feature of Site Meter-which uses a sampling of 100 visits-consistently shows that there are visitors coming from sixteen to twenty different time zones around the world. And one third of these are from time zones outside the Americas.
……
Categories of Visitors
By viewing the page from which the visitor arrives at the blog, it is easy to see that the majority of visitors fall into three general categories: those who have bookmarked the blog, those who are referred
by a number of sites linking to the blog, and those who are referred by search engines.
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