Blogs: Now We Are 10!
Monday, December 17th by CarlaLast week I blogged about Heather Strout, the Creative Writing teacher who incorporates blogging effectively. Here are others: Celebrate Blogging with teachers, students, and bloggers from around the world. Any other form of celebration — cookies, beverage — is entirely up to you.
Blogging as we know it began 10 years ago today with the coining of the term “weblog,” according to Wikipedia. Before then it was possible to use bulletin boards for posts and responses, though some current editing features weren’t available. Today Technorati, the leading search engine for blogs (including this one), tracks 112.8 million blogs. By one estimate, a new blog is born every 15 seconds. Blogs are a leading example of the interactivity that defines what is sometimes called the Read/Write Web and more often, Web 2.0.
Teachers are blogging personally and professionally, and students blog at MySpace, FaceBook, and other social networking sites. How can we bring blogs into the classroom?
