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BloggingAn introduction for educators
Bill MacKenty | www.mackenty.org
What do you know about blogging?
About me
• www.mackenty.org
• school blog - Edgartown School
• blogging evangelist
• games in education
• special announcement
Introducing....
Why Blog?
• dynamically network
• RSS/ATOM
• ping aggregate sites
• technoratti & blogster
• google blog search
• very easy to use
• simple
Blogging statistics
• 20.5 million blogs
• livejournal: 8 million blogs
• 608,000 posts in the last 24 hours
• myspace: 34 million blogsSources
• blogpulse.com
• technorati.com
• livejournal.com/stats.bml
How to blog?
• Different blogging systems
• blogger, moveable type, expression engine, livejournal, myspace
• Easy
• blogger demo
• expression engine demo
Blogger Demo
Expression Engine Demo
* Points *
• share your ideas, lessons, discussions
• students can post anything (http://
www.edgartown.mv.k12.ma.us/index.php/teachers/bmackenty/)
• write once, post everywhere
• myspace.org / yahoo360.com /xanda
Integrate
• Public writing opportunity
• Blog about anything -
• math, science, english language arts, history, cats, etc...
• Age/gender neutral ~ it’s the idea that counts
• Easily accessible for community
Questions & discussions
• Drawing for Expression Engine license
• Questions and discussions