Maybe it’s all of the talk of resolutions, typical to this time of year, but I’ve been thinking more about blogging and why it’s a valuable thing for anyone (for me?) to do. And suddenly it seemed like a good topic to blog about….so here you have it – a blog post about blogging.
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Entries Tagged as ‘Blogs’
January 4, 2009
Why blog?
August 14, 2008
Wordle
Have you played around with Wordle?
The contents of my blog in a wordle
Great fun. Wordle is an online tool that generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more freqeuntly in the source text. So you copy a block of representative text (from your [...]
July 21, 2008
CoveritLive: Live Blogging
Live, interactive blogging. Interesting idea, eh? CoveritLive is a free live-blogging tool could take blogs to a different level. To test it out, you just go to their site, register (no downloads necessary), then copy the embedded code they give you into your blog and you’re ready to roll (there’s a nice demo movie on their [...]
April 16, 2008
Bubbleshare Yourself
BubbleShare: Share photos – Powered by BubbleShare
This is a bubbleshare. Bubbleshare is an easy-to-use online photo sharing site. You upload your digital photos, create and edit albums, and then share them via email, blogs or wikis. Simple [...]
April 10, 2008
Read/Write Web
There’s a very interesting article in the March 31st New Yorker by Eric Alterman called “Out of Print”, about the state of of affairs with the American newspaper. The author talks primarily about the Huffington Post, which is one of a new breed of internet newspapers, featuring news, blogs, video, and commentary. Most of its [...]
January 16, 2008
Here’s how they blog in Texas.
Are you ready for another great blogging in the classroom story? Meet Lee Ferguson and her Allen, Texas AP Biology class blog. Ms. Ferguson decided to start using a blog to enourage her students to think more about the effect of science and technology on society. She creates short, summary blog entries gleaned from science news [...]
January 7, 2008
Join the Blogosphere
Alright, so you’ve heard of blogging. In fact, you’re here, reading this, so you know something about blogging already since, yes, this is a blog. Now might be a good time to start a blog of your own. It’s a great way to post materials and resources, host online discussions, communicate with parents, or eliminate [...]
