Innovations_Blogs

Nicole McRae Y ﻿ Alyssa Nierzwicki Y ﻿ Lauren Spisak

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According to a popular blogging site, blogger.com, "A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world. Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules. In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it, or email you. Or not."

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B. Facts or Need to Knows
 * A blog is organized in reverse-chronological order, from most recent entry to least recent.
 * A blog is normally public -- the whole world can see it.
 * The entries in a blog usually come from a single author.

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D. Examples in “real life”/general uses Basically, a blog is a lot like an **online journal** or **diary**. The author can talk about anything and everything. Many blogs are full of interesting links that the author has found. Blogs often contain stories or little snippets of information that are interesting to the author.

E. Classroom/Learning Uses

1. Teacher Uses/Parental Use
"Teachers will often start a blog for providing communication to students, parents, or other teachers. Sometimes this is just the posting of homework or other assignments in one easy-to-find location. Other times this can be a richer description of the things taking place in the classroom, specifically drawing the parents into what their children are working on, or for students who have been absent. This type of blog can also take advantage of the comment feature for students and parents to ask questions or for clarification, where the answer would be of interest to all the readers."

3. Possible differentiation for Special Needs/ELL students

 * === gives them an outlet to speak with/to ===
 * === orally impaired communication ===

F. Resource links to examples of classroom uses or articles/online sources with suggestions for use in the classroom, lesson plans

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===//Browning, B. (Artist). (2009). http:[|www.bsu.edu/web/sbrobbins/Bloghandout.pdf] //Blog//. [Web]. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bil-browning/top-5-best-indiana-gay-bl_b_294898.html//=== ===What is a Blog?//. (2008, August). Retrieved from http://www.dailyblogtips.com/what-is-a-blog/ BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION: What is a Blog?. (2008, August). Retrieved from http://www.dailyblogtips.com/what-is-a-blog/ [NOTE: Italicize "What is a Blog?"]

PARENTHETICAL CITATION: ("What is a," 2008)

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