Comments on: Blog, blogged, blogging, to blog, blogger

By: tommy atkins

tommy atkins — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:07:31 +0000

i am really glad to have read and i now feel a lot more comfortable with the “blog”, i think the limits are endless

By: Michael Walker

Michael Walker — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:08:13 +0000

Steve, I was going through the "30 Days to Being a Better Blogger" while preparing for a presentation on Blogging at the TIES conference next week when I saw this post in the "Best of Teach42" scroll. I agree with Bud's analysis that it is a little bit of both. I think that by integrating blogging into the reading/reflecting/writing process it transforms the skills and processes we have been teaching by creating an authentic audience, and developing 21st Century skills through hyperlinking and visual literacy. Last year, we had a high school student blog about a poem she read in class. Later that week, she told the teacher that she received a comment to her post...from the poet! This could not have happened if she had simply turned her assignment in to the teacher. This is the transformational layer that Bud refers to, and why blogging provides the potential a richer experience for students. Michael Walker´s most recent blog post.. 2008 Edublogs Nominee

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Blogging: recycled skills or something new? « Random Thoughts — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:26:33 +0000

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| Ruth's Ruckus — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:30:13 +0000

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By: Bud Hunt

Bud Hunt — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:06:56 +0000

Wow. You ask a huge question at the end of your post here, Steve. My gut answer is yes and no — Blogging as I am beginning to understand it asks a writer to take ideas and weave them together — a little of this, a little of that, add some critical analysis and you’ve got a good piece of writing. That’s no different than any other writing that I ask my students to do. I want them to think critically.
But blogging, because it involves hypertext and the entire Internet to draw from, adds a layer. Students linking and cross linking can get, well, complicated. as you say, a blog can help to make clear a “conversation occuring in slow motion,” which is precisely what a good piece of writing is — it speaks to the pieces that came before and it hints at those to come.
There’s lots here that I, like you, have to think about.