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Date Posted: 09:56:03 03/19/11 Sat
Author: Mauricio Horto
Subject: task 8 summary

Exploring Web 2.0:: Second Generation Interactive Tools - Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis, Networking, Virtual Words, And More
Ann Bell

Have you blogged today yet?

Professional Use of Blogs
Blogs are not only for classroom purposes. They also are very useful to communicate internally the school. School committees and groups can share relevant information fast and efficiently through the blogs.
Teachers can develop, coordinate and share lesson plans, worksheets as well as projects.
Blogs can be used as a building block for a school website. They are easier to deal with and update.
They can be used as FAQ page, ongoing updates about school matters.
The outside community can have easier access and be closer to the school thought its blogs.

How to write meaningful blog entries
Basic considerations for maintaining an effective blog:
 Provide a constant theme for your blog;
 Choose a consistent voice. Serious and down on earth, or funny? Only Proper grammar use, or slangs sometimes?;
 Show honesty and sincerity;
 Be informative and up to date;
 Differentiate between facts and opinions;
 Double check spelling, grammar and punctuation;
 Select short keywords-rich title;
 Update frequently;
 Find a good maintained RSS feed;
 Select tags that best reflect the purposes of the blog;
 Select category labels that best describes the blog.

Advantages of blogs in the classroom
The ability to use RSS feeds that keep educators and students up to dates. New information or content published on blogs already visited is informed automatically.
Blogs also can:
 teach critical reading and writing skills;
 help students become more media and information literate;
 teach students about how networks function;
 teach essential skill collaboration;
 help pupils develop confidence, improve their self-expression, and achieve a sense of fulfillment from publishing their work

Examples of blogs in the classroom

Blog safety

“Educators need the freedom to provide guidance and model the proper use of blogs for their students. Our young people will live in a world where they will have access to increasingly more powerful communications tools and it is the responsibility of the schools to teach them how to manage the power of these 21st century tools.”
Ann Bell (Author)

Some safeguards teachers and parents need ensure to their students and children:

 no personal information will be given;
 students should write what they can be proud of and under password protection;
 not linking to a site they have not read yet and do not agree with;
 that they understand copyright issues;
 that they do not distort the content of copyright photos;
 that they do not show disrespect to anyone in their blogs;
 never publish inaccurate information;
 that they clarify what is opinion and what is fact.

Summary

Blogs can become important tools in professional development, training, peer collaboration, sharing best practices, and communication with people in general.
Many schools and businesses are finding blogs a more effective way to communicate as well as more cost-effective then previous online methods.

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Re: task 8 summary -- Luciano Valadares, 16:08:20 03/21/11 Mon