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The Art of Blogging

The Art of Blogging. George Siemens MADLAT http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/blogging/artofblogging.htm. It’s all about change!. Standard opening lines when talking new technologies: How we acquire, use, and trust information is changing.

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The Art of Blogging

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  1. The Art of Blogging George Siemens MADLAT http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/blogging/artofblogging.htm

  2. It’s all about change! Standard opening lines when talking new technologies: How we acquire, use, and trust information is changing. Blogs and RSS are indicators (not drivers) of a much larger change in the information ecology.

  3. Why? • Previously, society of information keepers derived value from ability to erect and maintain barriers • Information structure has been under pressure since 1960’s from info keepers to info sharers • Change initially restricted to small subset of society • The Web brought the change pressures mainstream

  4. So what? • Catching up with needs • Tools are being developed to reflect new information structure and user needs • Innovations build on former model, until core changes are sufficiently distributed to allow the innovation to stand on its own merits

  5. Some trends • Two-way flow • Questioning bias • Increased dialogue/discussion • Voices given to individuals • Decentralized • Increased equality among nodes • Modularization • Pliable connections (or connected specialization) • History is created for knowledge/learning that used to vaporize

  6. Media

  7. Media

  8. Media

  9. Learning

  10. Learning

  11. Most important point for educators/trainers Learning is not simply a content consumption process. Learning is also a content creation process. This can’t happen if the flow of knowledge is one way.

  12. What is valued in an information ecology/economy? • Time • Connections • Openness • Diversity • Currency • History (searchable) • Scalable

  13. Characteristics of various media

  14. Characteristics of various media Connections, history, speed, ability to search, dialogue, two-way, end user control - highest balance is found with blogs.

  15. What is the best environment for learning? • Variety • Content expression • Means of experiencing content • Community • Small group • Individual • Connections

  16. A different way to learn… Traditional Blogs and RSS

  17. Definition of Blogs • A simple website • Frequently updated • Dated links • Commentary • Archives • Two-way (comments, trackback, cross-linking)

  18. Blogs Blogs are tethered conversations – parallel, not direct, scalable

  19. Example of Blogs • http://www.elearnspace.org/blog • http://www.downes.ca • Dave Barry • http://blogs.msdn.com/ • http://www.elearningpost.com • Dean for America

  20. Applications • Learning and teaching • Knowledge sharing • Relationship forming • Advocacy • Personal Knowledge Management • Community building (relationship forming) • Marketing

  21. How to blog • Start • Know your motivation • Link, comment on other posts • Experiment – find your voice • Express your personality • Learn to write well • Write for a reason and an effect

  22. Getting Exposure • Blog regularly • Link and acknowledge others • Get involved in the conversations (comments, trackback)

  23. Getting Started • Hosted: Typepad, Blogger, LiveJournal • Remote Install: Drupal, Movable Type • Desktop: Radio Userland For more examples see: http://www.blogroots.com/resources.blog

  24. How it works… Blogging with Movable Type

  25. RSS • Lightweight XML format for sharing content • Ties together conversations – allows for review of many resources • Rich Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication • Atom is alternative format • Pull, rather than push • Trackback is subset (but is prone to same abuse as email) – basically “I said this about what you said”

  26. Aggregators • Desktop standalone: http://www.sharpreader.net/ • Integrated: http://www.newsgator.com/ • Web-based: http://www.bloglines.com/

  27. What does an aggregator look like? Sharpreader Bloglines

  28. Finding Feeds • Technorati • Feedster • Daypop

  29. Reality • RSS will be bigger than blogging. • Not everyone is a blogger • Everyone is a potential RSS subscriber • Personal blogging and work may not always be wise

  30. How does this translate into learning, personal knowledge management, knowledge sharing, conversations??? • Instructors can engage learners…and introduce learners to others in the field (i.e. tap learners into a learning pipeline that lasts beyond a “course”) • Learners can develop own reputation (eportfolio) • Institutions can share knowledge via simple, social tools

  31. Next steps for newcomers • Start a blog • Get an aggregator • Find RSS feeds of similar interest • Blog • Comment, link to other bloggers of similar interest

  32. Blogging Resources • http://www.elearnspace.org/enabling/blogs.htm • http://grumet.net/writing/web/deep-thinking-about-weblogs.html • http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/stories/2002/10/03/personalKnowledgePublishingAndItsUsesInResearch.html • http://www.weblogg-ed.com/stories/storyReader%24414#how1 • http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan04/richardson.shtml

  33. RSS Resources • http://www.downes.ca/files/RSS_Educ.doc • http://channels.lockergnome.com/rss/ • http://www.lights.com/weblogs/rss1.html • http://www.larkfarm.com/rss_resources.htm • http://blogspace.com/rss/resources • http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml • http://www.infotoday.com/online/nov02/OnTheNet.htm • http://www.sls.lib.il.us/infotech/presentations/blogging/index.htm • http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/

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