EDTC 6020 Principles
of Instructional Design
Fall 2004
EDTC 6020 Annotated Bibliography
USES OF BLOGS
I.
Regular Sources:
1.
Cross, Jay (2002). Blogs: “Learn to blog, blog to learn.” ASTD, 2002. http://www.learningcircuits.org/2002/apr2002/ttools.html
As the author notes, Blog stands for Web-log,
an informal personal website. Blogs are,
therefore, personal and usually unfiltered by any particular organization. Blog sites can be used to support learning by
being a personal writing space to organize thoughts and share information as
quickly as possible, if necessary. In
blogging, students get a virtual apprenticeship in journalism. According to the author, blogs are engaging,
current, and provide personal insight.
Because of time limitation, the author now spends less time reading
magazines, but more time blogging.
2. Klau,
Rick (2002). “How I learned to love the
blog: this new knowledge-management tool
can make the collection and sharing of information easier.”
The author introduces his short version of a
Blog 101 course. There are numerous Blog
applications designed to produce easily updated web sites, while archiving past
postings. Using a standard code, blogs
publish content so that other programs known as news aggregators can monitor
and retrieve new items. Blogs are known
as knowledge-sharing platforms. For
example, Radio Userland aggregates day-to-day enterprise-wide knowledge weblog
information (k-logs) for any firms’ internal use. This
is useful to the reader who wants to have the Blog information disseminated.
3. “Networking
by ‘Blog’” (2004). Acent K-12’s Career
Intelligence. Education Week
Webblogging is becoming a means for teachers to
collaborate and trade ideas and resources, as well as to relate to those
teachers in the same predicament, such as the first year teacher. This Blog outreaching is world-wide. This site is particularly useful to new
teachers.
4. Rapp,
David. (2003) “From Bulletin Board to
Blogs.” Technology Review, Sep
2003, Vol. 106, Issue 7, p. 88.
The
author reports on the development of Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS)
and its uses for computer users.
Bloggers’ personal journals have used the popular blog application,
Blogger, owned by Mountain View, CA, Google.
For the reader’s historical interests, Blogging started in January,
1978, with a computer program called “Xmodem,” which allowed people to exchange
files via their brand new modems and telephone lines. Later this system evolved through the Internet,
e-mail, and newsgroups through CBBS.
Again, Blogs are useful as a type of community bulletin board.
5. Robelen,
Erik W. (2004) “World Wide Wonks.” Education Week
This Blogger’s strongly criticizing opinions on
the “No Child Left Behind Act” offer information and links to news analysis
from the American Federation of Teachers on student proficiency. The reader should note the author’s self
proclaimed comments on restraining himself on writing about a limited number of
topics in a limited time after normal working hours. Readers must be cautious if using limited
time to create and maintain a Blog.
6.
Toner, Mark 2004. “‘Blogs’ Help
Educators Share Ideas, Air Frustrations.”
Education Week, Vol. 23, Issue 18, p. 8.
One of the uses of weblog is to receive and
give professional advice/encouragement;
however, the reader should note in this article the consequences of the
author’s voicing his personal opinions or venting about his actual work
activities, which were read by colleagues and later relayed to the boss. A Blogger, in drawing attention from other
bloggers, especially from Bloggers at the same worksite, must be willing to
suffer possible repercussions from his/her day job boss about his/her online
published opinions. Here the reader
should be cautious in making Blog statements that interfere with the day time
boss.
II. Other
Sources:
1.
Blood, Rebecca (2002). Practical
Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your …:
The Weblog Handbook.
This book is not merely a computer program book
of creating and maintaining a weblog.
The author also discusses the spectrum of what a weblog can provide from
journalism to participation/evaluation from it readers. She also comments on what a Blog Community is
and the Do’s and Don’t of a Blogger’s Ethics in the Blogosphere. Overall, the book is essential for those
Bloggers just starting out.
2.
Clyde,
The author notes that Weblogs, as sources of
news and opinions, are growing. Community
weblogs provide facilities for readers to post messages and comments, even
“moblogging” for cell phones. For
educational purposes, weblog creation software is available free, as are weblog
hosting services. The use of RSS (Rich
Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication), allows blog news to be delivered to a
“news aggregator” on the home computer, updated regularly. This
system may be more efficient than just sending out countless e-mails of
information.
3.
Embrey, Theresa Ross (2002). “You
blog, we blog: a guide to how teachers
and librarians use weblogs to build communication and research skills.” Teacher Librarian, Dec 2002, Vol. 30,
Issue 12, p. 7(3).
Weblogs are a cross between a diary and an
online community. Blogs, designed to
make creating and updating a web site quickly and easily, have increased in
popularity. Blogs have resulted in new
words being added to the English language, such as blogging, and
blogosphere. Blogs, originated as
personal communication tools, have evolved into distributing computer source
code software, providing computer bug reports, etc. Blog popularity has spread because of their interactive and community
forming nature. Some educators use blogs
as alternatives to online newsletters. Blogs have potential as news aggregators
or online resources and have developed their own web tools, such as search
engines that search items in Blogs.
According to the author, until 2002, few books were published about
blogging. The reader must be
anticipating new books on Blog use.
4. Fertig, Richard (2004). “Content Delivery in the ‘Blogosphere.’” T. H. E. Journal, Feb 2004, Vol. 31,
Issue 7, p. 12.
According to the author, Blogs are good for
Pedagogy because they allow the student social interaction in learning
online. Student publication allows for
subsequent reflection and analysis in revisiting and revising their
articles. Since Blogs are commented on,
they allow feedback and evolving ideas.
With interactivity, the student-teacher relationship increases with
frequent updating of content from other students’ feedback. At any stage of the Blogger’s writing and
reading skills development, blogging allows visiting to other classroom blogs,
modeling blogs for others, and, being publicly available, for visits from
friends, employers, or patents. The
Student Blog helps students become subject matter experts, increases students’
interests and ownership, as they also participate in helping other Bloggers to
develop. The site also offers helpful
sites in getting started, showing Blog trends, and exposing students to major
annual conferences.
5.
Jarvis, Jeff (2004. “Around the World in Blogs.” Foreign Policy, Nov 2004, Issue 145,
p. 36.
The author offers information on the global
expansion of the “blogosphere,” the world of Bloggers. He reiterates the political opinions of
Bloggers in asserting
6.
Nieman Foundation of
In February 2003, the Station Fire Weblog was
created and updated to collect links to news coverage of a particular
fire. The reader should note that the
author conveyed news ad hoc, while also soliciting donations for medical
expenses. This Blog provided information
three days ahead of the printed media and of more interest than the traditional
stories gave. For the author, a Blog of
links is only a portal, but the Blogger’s interests and bias in links are shown
in what he/she choose to point to. The author
also encourages participatory journalism from informed Blog readers.
7. Palser, Barb (2003). “Free to blog?” American Journalism Review, June-July
2003, vol. 25, Issue 15.
Some blogging journalists were told by their
employers to stop their blogs because of conflicts of interest. While some journalists blog in order to organize
their “mental notes,” blogs may compete with the employer’s web site
viewpoint. Another concern is that the
Weblog will siphon the journalist’s creativity and become an obsession. Therefore, some employers are asking
journalists to use discretion in what they blog for the above reasons. So
should the reader in deciding what to publish online.
8.
Rodzvilla, John (2002). We’ve
got blog.
Even if the reader does not enjoy narratives on
various themes, such as Why I blog and Meeting Bloggers, the list of websites
at the end is essential for initial interest in Blogging in such areas as Build
Your Blog, Community Weblogs, and Blog Dictionaries. The section of Weblog vs. Traditional
Journalism is a source of interest for some people deciding if they should create
Blogs.
9.
Stone, Brad (2004). “It’s Like a
Blog, But It’s a Wiki.” Newsweek,
As an alternative to the obsolete printed
reference book, the Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, what created so that
it could be updated by Internet users.
Visitors can change existing articles, which process makes this site the
world’s largest encyclopedia for the casual user. Wikipediaholics monitor changes and correct
problems . The reader should note that
the author’s goal is to bring volunteers together to write online resources,
which will also include Wiktionary (dictionary), and Wikibooks (textbooks and
manuals), and Wikiquote (quotations).