15th March 2005

Successful and Safe Educational Blogging

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I have published a new TechEdge article on
educational blogging, including basic suggestions for getting started,
protecting students’ privacy and safety, and a variety of recommended tools for
both reading updated blogs and publishing blog content.

More than any other type of new technology or
program, I think weblogs have realistic potential to serve as positive
instructional change agents. The only other initiatives for which I have similar
hopes are 1:1 student and teacher laptop initiatives, like the programs on href="http://www.educ.ttu.edu/tip" target="NewWindow">Texas TIP grant
campuses.

My new TechEdge
article, href="http://www.wtvi.com/teks/04_05_articles/educational_blogging.html"
target="NewWindow">“Successful and Safe Educational Blogging,”
explores these potentially transforming uses of blogs in the classroom as well
as a range of tools and techniques teachers and students can employ to access
blog content as well as publish their
own.

The best links I found while
doing research for the article are probably href="http://www.weblogg-ed.com/weblogs_in_ed_video" target="NewWindow">Will
Richardson’s short 2 1/2 minute video featuring students and teachers
discussing educational uses of weblogs, and href="http://www.novemberlearning.com/blogs/alannovember/articles/blogsinaction.aspx"
target="NewWindow">Alan November’s linked listing of “blogs in
action.”

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