yet another post off Christopher D. Sessums’s blog, he’s conducting this edublogging questionaire, some initial yet insightful findings. read them here.
Blogs – A GLOBAL CONVERSATION
Read this posting, mentioning and linking to a Master Thesis on Blogs! Yes, it’s by James Torio and the title of the thesis is as above. Grab the FULL version here.
Papers of WWW2005 workshop on the weblogging ecosystem
Saw this posting in Mathmangeic, thought some other teachers might also be interested. Here’s the extraction of the papers from the WWW-2005 2nd Annual Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics:
Extracting Latent Weblog Communities: A Partitioning Algorithm for Bipartite Graphs by Kazunari Ishida
Discovering Important Bloggers Based on a Blog Thread Analysis by Shinsuke Nakajima
The EigenRumor Algorithm for Ranking Blogs by Ko Fujimura
Tomographic Clustering To Visualize Blog Communities as Mountain Views by Belle Tseng
The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: Divided They Blog by Natalie Glance
GIS and the Blogosphere by Matt Hurst
Analyzing concerns of people using Weblog articles and real world temporal data by Tomohiro Fukuhara
Learning Contextualised Weblog Topics by Paolo Avesani
Blogging, RSS and the Information Landscape: A Look at Online News by Kathy Gill
Differences between Blogs and Web Diaries by Toshiaki Fujiki
Thank you Lilia.
Strategies for Educational Blogs
This is a paper presented by Dr Soo Wai Mun at the Educational Research Association of Singapore Conference 2004. The abstract:
Blogs are online journals that individuals publish on the Internet to reflect on mundane as well as serious issues of heart and mind. Like many email services, blogs are now freely available and form another communication channel for the Internet community. From outpours of individual tantrums to academic discourse of the Harvard Law School, blogs have proliferated far and wide. It is not surprising that blogging is becoming an instructional strategy for education.
This paper presents an overview of blogging, and relates it to practical educational applications. It highlights instructional strategies that enhance blogging as tool for teaching and learning. A case study where these strategies are applied is presented to
reflect on its strengths and weaknesses.
Teachers may find the sections on “Applying instructional strategies for blogging” and “Creating qualitative assessment rubrics for blogs” applicable to our teaching and learning tasks.
Dr Soo has kindly gave his consent to make available the paper for download. Download the paper here 🙂
A Weblog Webliography
A great list of readings for weblogs put together by Charlie Lowe. Marvellous!