BloggingAn introduction for educators

Bill MacKenty | www.mackenty.org

What do you know about blogging?

About me

• www.mackenty.org

• school blog - Edgartown School

• blogging evangelist

• games in education

• special announcement

Introducing....

Why Blog?

• dynamically network

• RSS/ATOM

• ping aggregate sites

• technoratti & blogster

• google blog search

• very easy to use

• simple

Blogging statistics

• 20.5 million blogs

• livejournal: 8 million blogs

• 608,000 posts in the last 24 hours

• myspace: 34 million blogsSources

• blogpulse.com

• technorati.com

• livejournal.com/stats.bml

How to blog?

• Different blogging systems

• blogger, moveable type, expression engine, livejournal, myspace

• Easy

• blogger demo

• expression engine demo

Blogger Demo

Expression Engine Demo

* Points *

• share your ideas, lessons, discussions

• students can post anything (http://

www.edgartown.mv.k12.ma.us/index.php/teachers/bmackenty/)

• write once, post everywhere

• myspace.org / yahoo360.com /xanda

Integrate

• Public writing opportunity

• Blog about anything -

• math, science, english language arts, history, cats, etc...

• Age/gender neutral ~ it’s the idea that counts

• Easily accessible for community

Questions & discussions

• Drawing for Expression Engine license

• Questions and discussions