Blogging Workshop

  • Private Writing: WR#3
  • Private Reading: Read one of the four following "locations." (You are welcome but certainly not required to add notes to WR#3 as you read/reflect.)
  • Pair Share
  • Blog Hunt
    For several of the blogs listed in the BlogLog (follow link), please consider the following questions. We suggest you examine blogs from each of the categories--pedagogical, professional, personal, and educators on--and we urge you select titles after you've reviewed the list so that we do not all look at the same three or four blogs. Thank you. Please also think about posting to Delicious the URLs of the blogs you really like.
    • What is the blog's purpose? How does the blogger communicate her purpose? How well does the blog communicate its purpose?
    • Does the blog address or target a particular audience? If so, how? How might you describe a representative audience member?
    • In what ways does the blog engage the reader visually?
    • What elements are present? For example, are there links, video clips, photographic images, graphic images, text, etc.? How do these elements help communicate a message?
    • Does the blog elicit response? If so, how and/or what kinds of response are evident? To what extent are readers invited to participate: to comment or to post?
    • What can you learn from the blog's title and URL?
  • Whole-Group Debriefing: Blogs on Parade
    • What did we notice?
    • How many different ways might we use our own ATI blogs?
  • Break
  • The Elements of Digital Design
  • Lunch
  • Building the ATI Blog
  • A Luxurious Afternoon of (Mostly) Self-Directed, (Mostly) Self-Selected Tech Work: Everyone needs to launch an ATI blog; after that launch, participants may continue working on the blog or spend time with del.icio.us or do more work with GooDocs. (Follow this link to blogging resources.)