EduBlog Insights

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This article focuses on how blogs have become a major source of information for netizens and what a daunting task it can be to sift through to relevent content. RSS feeds, of course, help.

If relevant threads can be selected from RSS and posted all together on another blog, the result would be a new filtered blog with more appropriate content. The people behind the ‘reBlog’ technology plan to build such a blog.

Excerpts:

reBlog is a blog with filtered content. The developers have created a reblog tool by combining two open source technologies_the blog creation tool `MovableType’ and the PHP-based server-side news aggregation tool `Feedon Feeds’ (http://minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/) discussed in this column long ago. If you have an Intranet or access to a web server with PERL/PHP/MySQL support, you can easily implement a reBlog.

The article continues with installation directions. The remainder of the article highlights E-mail alert services, Ithaki: a metasearch engine, and OnLine World News Network.

This should be interesting to follow……

There’s an excellent post pointing to Free online journals on Martin Terre Blanche’s Collaborative Learning Environments.

I got lost in the maze as I was wandering through some really good journals. I did come across an article listed under ‘current practice’in E-Journal of Instructional Science & Technology . It was ‘Blogs as Electronic Learning Journals’ by Laurie Armstrong and Dr. Marsha Berry.

This paper discusses the ability of blogs to integrate the personal aspect of a journal to document the student’s learning journey and the resulting effects.

Just received the following email……

Anne,

I found out about the weblogs you are doing with your students when I went on the Georgia State Instructional Technology page. I am interested in some of our teachers here in DeKalb County using weblogs to improve student acheivement in writing. I am an Instructional Technology Specialist here in DeKalb County in the Information Systems Department. Would it be possible to see your students in action with the weblogs or do you have information on how to do web log projects? Additionally, are you interested in doing a staff development class for the 13 of us here in the Instructional Technology Department of Dekalb County?

It seems more and more educators are getting interested and I love it that the request is to use weblogs to improve student achievement in writing!