blog links and resources


handouts available on this site


Mike Shapiro's blogger.com blog set-up handout
Annette Vee's initial set-up instructions for students in English 201, Spring 2006
Annette Vee's blog portfolio assignment, for students in English 201, Spring 2006
Student survey on blogs, given in Annette' E201 class, Spring 2006

class blog sites

UW sites

Mike Shapiro's site: "sequentialsmarts"
Greg Downey's Journalism 201 site
Greg Downey's Library and Information Studies site
Rick Hunter's English 100 site
Scot Barnett's English 100 site
Annette Vee's English 100 and 201 site: "thoughtmeat"

sites at other universities

Matt Barton at St. Cloud University
Comp 100 class at Lehigh
Clifford Tatum at University of Washington (this site is not anonymous for students)
Alice D'Amore, English 108 at Purdue
Samantha Blackmon, English 605 at Purdue (this site is not anonymous for students)

tools

free blog hosting services

Blogger
Blogsome
James Farmer’s edublogs and uniblogs
Live Journal
LifeType

blog customizing services

Drupal (an open source tool allowing you to produce highly customized websites and blogs)
Wordpress (free)
Movable Type (not free)

blog aggregator or subscription services

Bloglines
Google Reader

other sites of interest for blogs

Technorati (a searching and ranking site for blogs)
Google Blog Search
James Farmer’s list from 2005 of multi-user blogging tools
Flickr (for storing, searching and tagging pictures)
Tag Clouds on Technorati

recommended reading on blogs

UW Professor Greg Downey’s paper: "Using weblogs in the classroom at UW-Madison
Stephen Downes' article: "Educational Blogging"
WIDE webtext (in the online journal Kairos): "Why Teach Digital Writing"
James Farmer and Anne Bartlett-Bragg's paper: "Blogs@Anywhere: High fidelity online communication"
Richard Ferdig and Kaye D. Trammell's article: "Content Delivery in the Blogosphere"