To Blog or Not To Blog

The Presentation

Links featured in the presentation (follow along if you wish):

1. What is a blog? - The InfoMan's Blog

2. Blogs in teaching and learning: why?
   • Georgia State University Library
   • America and the World

3. Setting up my own blog
   • BlogSpot
   • LiveJournal.com
   • Xanga.com
   • Various other sites (fee and free)

4. How can I read blogs?
   • The InfoMan's Blog
   • The Librarianator

   • RSS Feed Readers/News Aggregators
   • Bloglines

   • What's the Hap?
   • Sample Blog RSS Feed Page

5. Bonus: what's a wiki?
   • Wikipedia
   • JuggleWiki
   • Romantic Audience Project

6. Bonus: what's podcasting?
   • iPodder.org
   • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

7. Where can I find blogs?
   • Technorati
   • Directory at Livejournal.com
   • BlogStreet
   • Many searching options
   • Blogpulse
   • Feedster

8. Blogs in teaching and learning: where
   • Weblogg – ed
   • Into the Blogosphere – UThink
   • Weblogs in Higher Education
   • Shedding Light: BLOG-MANIA
   • Exploration Guide: Educational Uses of Blogs [Etc.]

9. Where can I find more general information on blogs?
   • Wikipedia "Weblogs" entry
   • Weblogs Compendium
   • About.com
   • Books at Miami (and beyond)

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