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Literature blogs

Literature blogs. Pat Pledger. What are blogs?. Content organised by date United States: 8% of Internet users keep a blog and 39% read blogs Keep up-to-date with new books and trends Appeal for younger generation Useful for writers. Benefits of blogs. Easy publishing

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Literature blogs

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  1. Literature blogs Pat Pledger

  2. What are blogs? • Content organised by date • United States: 8% of Internet users keep a blog and 39% read blogs • Keep up-to-date with new books and trends • Appeal for younger generation • Useful for writers

  3. Benefits of blogs • Easy publishing • Free web publishing space with Blogger or Edublogs • Simple to create • New content published instantly • Archive old material

  4. Benefits of blogs • Keep websites up-to-date • Use as a section of a website

  5. Benefits of blogs • Engaging students - book discussion, reviews, poems, stories or journals

  6. Benefits of blogs • Enhance library programs • Links can be made to podcasts and videocasts • Place to store handouts about books and information about meetings and schedules

  7. Benefits of blogs • Filter information from many places • Collaborate with people around the world

  8. Keep up to date with trends • Selection of high-quality weblogs will save time and add to professional growth • Read Alert • Achockablog • Read Roger, the Horn Book’seditor’s rants and raves • Bibliosphere Newshttp://parra-bib-blog.blogspot.com/ • http://www.bloglines.com/public/PatP

  9. Blogs set up for student learning • Book Lookhttp://www.booklook.org/ • Book Wormshttp://central.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bookworms/ • Book Nook http://central.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/booknook/ • Book biteshttp://bookbite.blogspot.com/

  10. Blogs set up for student learning • Shelf Tales http://shelftales.wordpress.com/ • Hit4six http://hit4six.livejournal.com/

  11. Authors´ blogs • Insights into personalities, the writing process and the publishing world • Margo Lanagan - how she writes • Scott Westerfeld - International covers • Susan Hill - online chapters • Young Adult novel, Mortal Ghost,on blog andand podcast http://mortalghost.blogspot.com • http://www.bloglines.com/public/PatP

  12. Book reviews • The ReadPlus Review blog http://www.readplus.com.au/blog.php • Chicklish aimed at adolescent girlshttp://keris.typepad.com/chicklet/ • Book bite http://bookbite.blogspot.com/

  13. Promotion of booksandnd reading • Virtual display to promote new books • What to read next • Promote literature circles • Reading rules • http://readreadread.edublogs.org/

  14. Factors to consider • Purpose of blog - is this the best process to achieve your aim • Time factor - posting, putting up covers, getting reviews • Audience - who is it for? Parents, students, wider community? • Are there privacy and safety issues?

  15. Subscribing to a blog reader • Useful blog collector is Bloglines • http://www.bloglines.com • Can get blog entries in your email with FeedBlitz http://www.feedblitz.com/

  16. Reading blogs • Use time productively • Consider lack of depth in blogs

  17. Resources • Blog reader - Bloglineshttp://www.bloglines.com/ • Free blog sites: • Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/ • Edublogs http://edublogs.org/

  18. Resources • Blogging across the curriculum • http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/blogging-across-the-curriculum/ • Transforming learning • http://judyoconnell.wordpress.com/ • Social Libraries http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/node

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