BlogLog: Reading Blogs
3.10.2010
Please consider the following questions as you examine blogs from the four categories below--pedagogical, professional, personal, and educators on--whose titles or topics catch your eye.
- What is the blog's purpose? How does the blogger communicate her purpose? How well does the blog communicate its purpose?
- Does the blog address or target a particular audience? If so, how? How might you describe a representative audience member?
- In what ways does the blog engage the reader visually?
- What elements are present? For example, are there links, video clips, photographic images, graphic images, text, etc.? How do these elements help communicate a message?
- Does the blog elicit response? If so, how and/or what kinds of response are evident? To what extent are readers invited to participate: to comment or to post?
- What can you learn from the blog's title and URL?
Personal
- Meer Image: Fine Art Rubber Stamps
- Sightings: Steller's Jays
- Delicious Baby: Living the Good Life with Kids
- Thinking out Loud: Recycling Life into Art
- Cleo and Me
Professional
- The Tech Savvy Educator
- Blog of Proximal Development (An exploration of blogging communities in education.)
- Bud the Teacher: Inquiry and Reflection for Better Teaching
- Classroom Displays (Ideas, best practices, and celebrations of classroom displays world wide.)
- EdTech Journies (by teachers for teachers)
- EdTech Gold Rush (Resources addressing "educational technology, information literacy, low threshold and open source applications, and implementation in the K-12 classroom.")
- Teachers Teaching Teachers (A weekly webcast repository hosted by the National Writing Project's savviest techie.)
- Weblogg-ed (Will Richardson’s blog on applications for technology in K-12 classrooms.)
- WordPress Repair Kit (Education Fact and Fiction)
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity (Wesley Fryer advocates for the use of technology in the “learning revolution.”)
- Megan's Blog Desk (The blog is a resource for teachers who are interested in blogging. It has links to many examples and is set up as a workshop for teaching teachers.)
- Two Writing Teachers: Teaching Kids. Catching Minds. 872 Miles Apart.
- EduBlog Insights (Anne Davis' "comments, reflections, and occasional brainstorms" from the University of Georgia)