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CATCH THE TECHNOLOGY WAVE
Blogging in Online Learning and Professional Development
Professor Emeritus Ray Schroeder
Director of Technology-Enhanced Learning
University of Illinois at Springfield
What are Blogs?
Web + Logs = Blogs
Web Pages
Automated updating
Chronological postings
May accommodate responses
Internet-specific phenomenon
Incomplete index of blogs
http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/
Examples of Blogs
Public Health Blog
Public Health (GA State Univ.)
Disability Law Blog
Disablawg
Science Blog
Science Blog
Ray’s News Blogs
Online Learning Update
Who visits?
Site Meter provides extensive data
How many?
What site referred them?
What do we know about them?
What time zone?
Getting Started
Three Primary Ways (Siemens Art of Blogging)
Hosted
 http://www.blogger.com
Remotely Installed
http://www.movabletype.org/
Desktop
http://radio.userland.com/
Resources for Setting up Your Blog
http://www.blogroots.com/resources.blog
RSS:  Aggregating Blogs
Rich Site Summary
Originally Netscape News Feeds
XML Summary of Blog Entries
Multiple Reader Technologies
Allows for instant updates
Examples:
http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/blogbox.htm
http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/blogboxnews.htm
Online Aggregator
News is Free
Ray’s Blogs in NIF Aggregator
Ray’s Health RSS Feed in NIF
Creating your own page
Register at NIF
Create a Page
Add to Favorites
Receive email daily
Selected Sources
Introduction to Blogging
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/blogging_part_1.htm
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/blogging_part_2.htm
http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/blogosphere.htm
http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html
Blogging News
http://www.blogroots.com/
Selected Sources
What is - How To RSS
http://www.downes.ca/files/RSS_Educ.htm
http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/1/
http://www.infotoday.com/online/nov02/OnTheNet.htm
ABC Looks at RSS
What is and How to RSS
Aggregating RSS
Refining Paperless News
Yahoo Searches RSS Feeds
Blog Index
http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/
Contact Information
Ray Schroeder
Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning
HRB-79
One University Plaza
University of Illinois at Springfield
Springfield, IL 62703-5407
217-206-7531
Schroeder.ray@uis.edu