Resources
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Parents/Safety Information
1. Blogging Letter to Parents – by Susan Sedro
2. Room 132
3. Australian Goverment NetAlert – Topics include: What are Blogs?, What are the Dangers of Blogs?, and How can children stay safe using blogs?
3. Bud Hunt’s Blogging Policies and Resource Wiki
Rules for Blogging
1. Patterson’s Class Blog – First, some important rules about blogging.
2. Bloomer 6th Grade – Rules for Blogging
3. Room 613 Student Blogs – Rules for Blogging
Classroom Uses of Weblogs
1. Edublog Insights – Comprehensive list by Anne Davis
Books
1. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms by Will Richardson
Videos
1. Weblogs in Education Video – Introduction to Weblogs by Will Richardson (2:28)
Podcasts
1. Landmark’s Podcast Interview on Classroom Blogs between Alan November and Will Richardson
Blogging Tools
1. 21publish
2. edublog – Free blogs for teachers, researchers, librarians and other education professionals. Uses Word Press.
3. Learner Blogs – student version of edublogs (See “How to set up a student centered classroom blog“)
4. Blogger (owned by Google)
5. Blogmeister - Teacher can review postings and comments before they are posted. There is a Yahoo Gropus mailing list for Class Blogmeister teachers. Questions can be posed there for answers from experienced users. Subscribe to this group by sending an empty email message to: classblogmeister-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
6. November Learning Communities
7. Think.com
Content Management Systems (with built-in Weblog Tool)
1. Manilla
2. Word Press
3. Movable Type ($700 for 1,000 Students), TypePad ($150/year) – both by Six apart
Blog Search Tools
Technorati, Bloglines, Google Blog Search, Blogdigger, BlogPulse, BlogSearchEngine, Bloogz, Daypop, Feedster, IceRocket, PubSub.
Wiki Tools
1. pbwiki
2. WikiVille -
Web-Based Word Processors
1. Writeboard
2. Jotspot Live
3. Writely (which Google just purchased)
Aggregators
1. Bloglines
Standards
