From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Thu 28 Jul 2005 - 13:54:51 EEST
Ogretmen-Kutuphaneci Dergisinden bir yazi:
http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/tlmag/v_30/v_30_2_feature.html
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Volume 30, Number 2, December 2002
You Blog, We Blog: A Guide to How Teacher-Librarians Can Use
Weblogs to Build Communication and Research Skills
Theresa Ross Embrey
The global reach of the World Wide Web helps create connections
between many people with diverse opinions and interests. This
strength, combined with the ease of publishing to the Web when
compared to traditional publishing endeavors, and the ability to
reach a large audience have fostered a phenomenon known as weblogs.
Weblogs, or blogs for short, are a cross between a diary, a web
site, and an online community. Blogs are built using specially
designed software that makes creating and updating a web site quick
and easy. As a result, blogs are informal, frequently updated and
often chock full of the humor and personality of their
creator/moderator.
Blogs have existed on the Internet for several years now. But it
has only been in the last several months that they have increased
in popularity. This rise in popularity has resulted in new words
being added to the English language: blog ? a weblog; blogging ?
the act of creating a blog; bloggers ? individuals who create
blogs; and the blogosphere ? the connected realm of blogs that
exists on the Internet and is accessible via links to other blogs,
specialty search engines and blog indexes. As this form of
communication flourishes, other jargon will surely come into
existence as well.
Blogs started out as personal communication tools that could
provide Web commentary on social issues and other topics of
interest to the blogging community. Blogging was quickly picked up
as a distribution tool for technologists, who use their blogs to
distribute source code for software, provide bug reports and
comment on the state of technology and society. Some examples of
this phenomenon are Little Green Footballs? blog, Scripting News,
and WriteTheWeb.
More recently there has been a surge in the number of professional
blogs. Several professional journalists have blogs, including
Andrew Sullivan and Iain Murray. Noah Shachtman reports that
several journalism schools are including blogging in their online
journalism classes for the fall of 2002 (Shachtman, 2002).
Part of the spread and popularity of blogs are due to the fact that
they are often interactive and community forming. There are even
some library blogs that are collaborative, like the Handheld
Librarian. Collaborative blogs, i.e. blogs with multiple
contributors, are supported by much of the blogging software
available today. Other library blogs include The Shifted Librarian,
Library Stuff, and Library News Daily. There are so many library
blogs now that Peter Scott, Internet Projects Manager at the
University of Saskatchewan, Canada, is compiling an index of them.
Educational blogs
A number of educators have already embraced blogging and are active
bloggers. Here are some links to a few on the Internet: Blogging
from the Barrio: A Tech Sensei?s Blog from Chicago?s Barrio of
Pilsen, K-12blogWrite, and Schoolblogs. Some schools are using the
blogs as an electronic alternate to school newsletters for parents
and area residents while others are internal communication tools
aimed at teachers and administrators.
But blogs could be so much more. How about incorporating blogs in a
lesson plan on using search engines, on using news aggregators, or
evaluating online resources? Or in a journalism class on detecting
bias? Or in a computer class on how to document code? Here is an
example of how one class used a blog to communicate what they
learned about Tudor Exploration in their social studies class:
Tudor Exploration. Schoolblogs has many other examples as well. If
as a librarian you helped students find resources for a history
blog like the Tudor Exploration one mentioned above, the blog could
turn into an online history fair.
How can you and your students get started?
First, you will need a connection to the Internet, a web browser
and some blogging software. Then, you will need a plan. Will you
collaborate with an English teacher as part of a writing project?
Or with a social studies teacher on watching and commenting on
elections or the current political environment? The opportunities
are only constrained by your imagination and the needs of your
school?s curriculum.
Let?s take an example. Say you are working with the school?s
science department on an ecology project, like the study of a local
river. Students could create a blog to track their daily/weekly
observations of the river in question after explaining their
hypothesis in their first blog post. They may also use a news
aggregator, like that included in Userland?s Radio, to track local
news item that are relevant to their project (possibly online
newspaper stories on dumping of wastes into the river) and post
those to their blog. They may also post to their blog links to
other sites on the Internet that reference the river?s history,
impact on the community, etc. These web links could come from the
local historical society?s web site to a doctoral dissertation a
graduate student in environmental science did on river ecologies.
The students would not only learn about river ecologies as part of
their science unit, but also develop information literacy skills
for the 21st century.
Blogging software
Blogging software allows a blogger to create a blog without knowing
a lot of HTML or working with complicated web templates. Blogging
software, unlike web editors like Front Page, is easy to use and is
designed for frequently updated pages. Many blogs are updated daily
and often have multiple updates in a single day. However, you don?t
need special blogging software to create a blog. Some bloggers use
straight HTML to create their blogs. For those of us who are scared
away by lines of code, here are some examples of and places to get
blogging software that help make the creative process of publishing
a blog a little easier:
* Blogger:
* Live Journal:
* Moveable Type:
* Radio (Userland):
* Schoolblogs:
Blogger, Userland?s Radio, Live Journal and
Schoolblogs also provide hosting on their
server for you. With Moveable Type, you will
need access to a server of your own to use the
software.
To top
Resources for Bloggers
There are numerous tools on the web for bloggers.
Below are descriptions of the more popular ones:
* Blogdex is the ultimate index to blogs on the web, with categories
that include ?fresh? and ?all-time.?
* Daypop is a search engine that searches news items and blogs. It also
keeps track of the most popular items each day.
* Weblog Bookwatch tracks the popularity of books mentioned in web logs
using the Amazon.com book number that is built into Amazon.com URLs.
* Voidstar RSS-ify is a tool that allows you to turn a weblog into a
RSS (Rich Site Summary) feed. RSS feeds are the road maps used by news
aggregators to collect resources on the web.
* YACCS is a tool used to allow others to comment on your weblog.
Now that you have the resources and tools to create a blog for your
library or class, you deserve some recognition. Discover The Bloggies.
The Bloggies are an annual award for web logs, entering its third year.
They currently don?t have a category for student blogs, but with the
increasing attention blogs have received they may be adding
categories in the future. References
Shachtman, N. (2002, June 6). Blogging goes legit, sort of. Wired News.
Retrieved June 6, 2002 from
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,52992,00.html.
Additional readings
Very few books have been published about blogging. Most of the information
about this practice and trend has appeared in the blogs of bloggers and a
few articles in the traditional news media. However, that?s
about to change. With the publication of the titles listed below, blogging
moves into society?s mainstream.
Bausch, P., Haughey, M., & Hourihan, M. 2002. We blog: Publishing online
with weblogs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
Blood, R. 2002. The weblog handbook: Practical advice on creating and
maintaining your blog. Cambridge, MA: Perseus
Blood, R., & the Editors of Perseus Publishing. 2002. We?ve got blog:
How weblogs are changing our culture. Cambridge, MA: Perseus
Powers, S., et al. 2002. Essential blogging. Sebastopol, CA: O?Reilly.
Stone, B. 2002. Blogging: Genius strategies for
instant web content. Indianapolis: New Riders.
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