Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis in Education
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The term stands for Web Log (weblog) and is called blog for short.
The original weblogs were link-driven sites. Each was a mixture in unique proportions of links, commentary, and personal thoughts and essays. In 1998 there were just a few sites of the nature. The term Weblogs were coined by Jorn Barger in December 1997.
The writings are called “entries”or “posts,” and generally appear in reverse chronological order.
Entries of a certain age often disappear and are usually archived.
Blogs are the conversations of today. In a time of rapid change blogs provide an important resource for information because you learn what people are thinking from blogs. To search the blogosphrere use Technorati
Free Resources
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Word Press provides a free blog with an easy to use widget interface, a an easy to use editor that also allows for uploading images into galleries and slide shows.
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Nicenet provides Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA2), a sophisticated communication tool that brings powerful World-Wide-Web based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments. The ICA2 incorporates many new features and responds to requests we have received from our users. Nicenet provides the ICA free of charge with no advertising.
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BlogMeister is a blogging tool for students by David Warlick
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Bloglines is a FREE online service that helps you subscribe to and manage lots of web information, such as news feeds, weblogs and audio. Bloglines tracks the information you're interested in, retrieves new stuff as it happens, and organizes everything for you on your own personal web news page.
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