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To Blog, Or Not To Blog users.muohio/burkejj/blog.html

To Blog, Or Not To Blog http://www.users.muohio.edu/burkejj/blog.html. A TLTR Workshop John Burke April 6, 2005. What is a blog?. Short for “web log” An online journal or diary Combinations of original writing/abstracting with links to other resources Reverse chronological order

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To Blog, Or Not To Blog users.muohio/burkejj/blog.html

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  1. To Blog, Or Not To Bloghttp://www.users.muohio.edu/burkejj/blog.html A TLTR Workshop John Burke April 6, 2005

  2. What is a blog? • Short for “web log” • An online journal or diary • Combinations of original writing/abstracting with links to other resources • Reverse chronological order • Individual author; audience comments; group authors • Searchable archives • Example: the InfoMan’s blog

  3. What’s a blog for? • Outlet for expression of all kinds • Personal, professional, political, etc. • Current awareness updating • Commentary on others’ comments • Collaboration and group discussion • Organizing information (text, images, links) with individual links and posting dates

  4. Blogs in teaching and learning: why • Posting drafts for comment • Journaling • Online creation experience • Group editing of documents • Group discussion for a project • Publishing and sharing work • Tracking research developments • Examples: • Georgia State University Library • America and the World

  5. Setting up my own blog • BlogSpot (blogger.com) • LiveJournal.com • Available at Middletown in the near future • Xanga.com • Various other sites (free and fee-based): see this link

  6. What choices do I have with blogs? • Can be public or private • Templates, links, layout • Single voice: one author • Multiple authors • RSS/Atom feed • Comments (on/off) • Archiving

  7. How can I read blogs? • Go directly to the blog’s site • infomanjjb.blogspot.com • www.livejournal.com/~librarianator • Use an RSS feed reader/news aggregator: • List at www.lights.com/weblogs/rss.html • Bloglines (www.bloglines.com) • Use/create a page that lists blog post headlines (using RSS) • www.mid.muohio.edu/library/thehap.cfm • www.users.muohio.edu/burkejj/blogrss.html

  8. What is RSS? • Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary • The feed: a list of items – headlines, postings, etc. – with links • Uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language) – feeds often have .xml ending • Newer, enhanced version is called Atom

  9. Bonus: what’s a wiki? • Blog-like • Flexible arrangement • Key difference: anyone can edit posts/info. • All revisions are archived • Collaborative creation and editing • Examples: • Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) • JuggleWiki (www.jugglingdb.com/jugglewiki/) • Romantic Audience Project (ssad.bowdoin.edu:8668)

  10. Bonus: what’s podcasting? • Audio blogging: iPod + broadcasting = podcasting • Recordings posted for download; marketed through RSS feeds – see iPodder.org for a directory • Listen at computer, or on MP3 player • More information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

  11. 0 Where can I find blogs? • Technorati (www.technorati.com) • Directory at Livejournal.com • BlogStreet (www.blogstreet.com) • Many searching options: (www.lights.com/weblogs/searching.html) • Blogpulse (www.blogpulse.com) – indicates posting trends • Feedster (www.feedster.com) – RSS feed directory

  12. Blogs in teaching and learning: where • Weblogg – ed (www.weblogg-ed.com/) • Into the Blogosphere (blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere) – UThink • Weblogs in Higher Education (www.mchron.net/site/edublog.php) • Shedding Light: BLOG-MANIA (www.oln.org/teaching_and_learning/shedlight.php)

  13. 0 Where can I find more general information on blogs? • Wikipedia “Weblogs” entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs) • Weblogs Compendium (www.lights.com/weblogs) • About.com (weblogs.about.com) • Books at Miami (and beyond) – ugly link

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