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Writing with weblogs A OPPORTUNITY FOR THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER
by Glen Bull, Gina Bull, and Sara Kajder
The Weblog is an online journal. The phenomenon of weblogs or "blogs" as they are known colloquially, appeared in the late 90's. These are updated regularly, as with the daily paper (several times a week) and usually focus on a specific topic or area that is of interest to the poster.
Initially, the creation of a "Blog" required knowledge of HTML [1]. But in 1999 some companies started to offer free software for publication. One of the best known is " Blogger [2] which now has more than one million registered users. (Editor's Note: For the above and other Web addresses, please see the "resources" at the end). Other services of this type include " Xanga " and "Live Journal " open source project that has been developed with volunteers. There are now hundreds of thousands of "bloggers" (users) that regularly publish the number of active participants grows daily.
The "Blogs" feature a media more structured than a mailing list [3] and more focused than a discussion group [4]. The structure creates a framework for interactions (networks) and active social basic desire of people to network and communicate. The thousands of people who join this initiative each week, are evidence of the potential of this new medium. In addition, the ability for instruction is great. TERMINOLOGY
"BLOG"
The term "Web log" originally referred to an online journal published on the Internet. Later the two words "Web" and "Log", is compressed into a single word, "weblog" and then the previous one, it became a very short word: "blog". "Weblog" is so far a noun in common use. A writer could then comment, "I updated my weblog this morning." The act of writing a "Weblog" is called "blogging." By extension, a person who writes a Weblog is a "blogger." The space in which a succession of "blogs" called "blogosphere."
USING THE TOOLS
To create "Blogs" you can use different tools. We recommend resources as "Esential Blogging (Essential Resource for electronic diaries) of Cory Doctorow and others, which give an idea of \u200b\u200bthe range of tools that are used frequently. "Blogger offers a free online tool that allows writers to create their electronic journals (Blogs) after a simple registration process that essentially asks for a contact email.
Web Sites as "Blogger" help you quickly build your own journal, working with electronic templates to be responsible for the design so that the user can concentrate on writing. During registration, users are encouraged to give it a name to the site of its electronic journal (blog). The text window will enter the suffix "Blogspot.com." For example, a blog devoted to the topic of newspapers may call: periódicos.blgspot.com.
Each time the user goes to add text, a window appears. The text is entered in the bottom of the screen and the date can be put in a space on the right.
Once the text has been entered and is ready to be sent, the user selects the "send and publish (post and publish) in the upper right corner of the screen. This text published in the journal (Blog) the user, which can be accessed at the web address previously selected.
INTRODUCTION TO CLASSROOM
To illustrate how this practice is in the classroom, it is important to consider how newspapers can be a challenge for students to write. Outside the classroom, the papers provide a space for thinking ideas. Ideally, the writer of a newspaper considers or takes account of new ideas as they connect what they already know. The journals provide a space that encourages risk taking. To guide students in writing, it must also offer rich opportunities and real spaces in which to write.
Following these principles, we offered the possibility of electronic journals (blogs) to teachers who were trained on a course in technology education. These students discussed their ideas on media and literacy. Read and explored online texts offered by the Smithsonian Institution (Smithsonian Institute) in Digital Archives September 11. Each student answers fed electronic diary "blog" and encouraged him to publish a text whenever you produce ideas or reactions. They shared comments and feedback given to peers using email. Coincidentally they were completing this task, started the Gulf War, which offered a unique experience of reading as students analyze the images, sound files and text that is presented with this file.
The letters provided by this experience proved to have a high degree of response. Students admitted to the facilities offered in the digital archive, both past memories and their needs for the present and future. During class, they described the experience as distressing but necessary to their lives outside the classroom. Brandon, one of the students made no distinction between work as a writer and observer work, he explained, "I feel the images in the context of we're doing now and I can not stop thinking about what is legal or illegal action. "
Beth, another student, did not write about the details of the images, but what these will produce "as much as I try to resist the images I see, they refuse to leave me and let me not deny what is happening ".
Each electronic diaries (blogs) of the students had multiple entries, all these texts are used to connect the events that were happening with creenciaspropias, rather than as writers found powerful and led them to create daily electronic (blogs) additional unrelated to the content of the class. Many students said they had begun to see themselves as writers and this led them to create the other day that allowed them to explore their own context spaces outside the classroom.
electronic diaries (blogs) tend to be public spaces that encourage the exchange of ideas in a community. Reinventing the purposes of instruction, tools Blogging can be adapted for private use of students. In this context, teachers and other students can read the electronic journal (blog) but this is not included in a directory and is housed in one direction only distributes the writer. A skeptical student said, "because I know that other people will read what I've posted here, I'll probably set aside part of what I'm thinking about what I've seen."
To reduce the prejudices and create a safer environment for those who write, suggest that students check their electronic journal (Blog) and private, at the time of registration. The same student suspicious, he later wrote "The electronic journal (Blog) is allowing me to communicate ideas that do not share openly in class."
We take a few moments of our discussion in class face to face to establish a community and ensure that student writers will select the community would have access to their work.
no pressure on them, the students included in their publications, archives of images and sounds of both the Digital Archives of September 11 and their own resources, they found that the original files should be there to frame their responses. Beth said about "If we leave everything to the imagination, it will seem that the events have nothing to do with our lives. When the image is present, there is no escape. "
"Blogger" offers an audio publishing service that lets writers make a phone call and then sticking to electronic journal (blog) as a voice file. This feature allowed students to express ideas that would not otherwise shared. Shannon, for example, who made a publication on the fear that "to forget the 11 September as soon spend the wave news" was that although he did not feel safe to express this idea in written words, this was part of what I thought and should serve as a connector for the rest of the paper. Subsequently published, "talk allowed me to express myself in a way that appeared safe and also allowed my real voice appeared on the page."
speak of a revolution
When using the Internet, educators are not only in her teaching including electronic diaries (blogs) but are publishing their own ideas and thoughts on the applications of these in the classroom, and reinventions student learning. In this case teachers are talking with other teachers about what works, what does not and what looks promising. One of those teachers, Will Richardson has a lively and valuable site dedicated to the use of electronic journals (blogs) in education.
What is printed covers a wide range, ranging from reflections to give instruction to management tips. The site also offers a list of links on development, which highlights exemplary applications in the classroom and students' writings.
LOOK THIS VALUABLE SOURCE OF EXPRESSION
The form of expression change as technology evolves, but the underlying motivation remains the same. AB Dick Company sold the first Mimeograph, 1900. Hugo Hernsback launched the first science fiction magazine (Amazing Stories) in 1926 and took a gamble ... included a comment section and it published the full address of the people who sent letters to enable them to communicate directly with each other. This resulted orogen Correspondents Club of Science, which published the first magazine of fans, The Comet (The Comet) in 1930. Hundreds of publications of these were reproduced in mimeograph and fulfilled the same function for today's electronic journals (blogs). By 1960 the above publications expressed political views, literary and critical experiments to rock and roll.
As the Internet became popular in the 90's, evolved many forms of expression. These included the mailing lists [3], discussion groups [4] "The Well "and" CompuServe "and newsgroups" Usenet. " All these technologies provide mechanisms for interactive discussion.
the "Blogging", in a sense, has its roots in the same motivations for amateur writers to develop the "zines" (amateur communications) handwritten in purple stencil spotted the 30 . These publications, electronic or paper, usually performed without compensation, represent a labor of love.
A question of interest to educators is how and how, will be able to use this opportunity to reach future learning goals. Often, teachers narrow the space available for students to write, ask questions that produce an inescapable vacuum where he ask students to write about topics that are far from understanding. We
daily role in our classes and watch as they remain stored in the bottom of lockers (lockers). Almost never work as stimulating spaces that invite you to write, in which students interact closely with the texts. On the contrary, think and write in them becomes forced unwelcome and meaningless.
electronic diaries (blogs) offer a different tool and the potential to reinvent the work done with the daily paper in the classroom, challenging students and teachers to think of ways to write authentic. Electronic newspapers (Blogs) sue media publications, writing concise, accurate, regular and timely responses and a new and exciting way to engage students. SUMMING
What makes this an innovation with the potential to transform the work done in the classroom? The answer focuses on the power of the media. More developed than mailing lists and more intimate discussion groups, electronic diaries (blogs) may offer chat rooms for student readers, writers and thinkers that transcends what we have hitherto known.
Meg Hourihan, where electronic column sums it up this way: electronic journals (blogs) offer a framework in the same way the haiku [5] brings order to the words. The structure of the documents we're creating allows us to build our social networks (distributed conversations, a list of messages that travel and friendships that begin online and consolidated at a dinner devoted to electronic journals in the real world). As diarists Electronics (Bloggers) are in the middle and enjoying an evolution of communication. Traits or characteristics of the "Weblogs" mentioned above are possibly going to change and evolve as the tools improve and mature technology. What is important is that we are accepting an environment free of physical limitations of paper pages, the interference of publishers and tedious delays of publishing systems. As with freedom of expression, what we say is not as important as the means by which we speak.
When Tim Berners-Lee conceived the Web, dreamed as a space which give both reading and writing. Browsers proved to be easier to develop than the editing tools. He was surprised and concerned with the fact that users will find it necessary to directly edit HTML code. Result of this was what he called "half only for reading." The new tools of "Blogging" lead us much closer to the original intent of literacy means. Bring
"Blogs" to the classroom challenges us to answer some difficult questions. What is communicated through electronic diaries (blogs)? What rules must be followed? Does this have any application in the form we communicate and share meanings in the open language? How we led the students to share and respond to comments other students told them? What multitextual provide the resources that the Network offers to the talks contained in Blogs? How do readers and writers who have difficulties could work on this kind of writing space differently than they do with the printing? Messages that are shared, open-mindedness, the accessibility of the way ... add to a form of communication that deserves exploration.
ONLINE RESOURCES Electronic file on September 11: http://www.911digitalarchive.org/ Blogger: http://www.blogger.com Live Journal: http://www.livejournal.com/ Meg Hourihan: http://www.oreillynet .com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/13/megnut.html Will Richardson's Blog: Xanga http://www.weblogg-ed.com/ : http://www.xanga.com / weblogs
ESPAÑOLeCuaderno: http://ecuaderno.com/ Escolar.net: http://escolar.net/ Book Notes: http://librodenotas.com/ earful: http: / / earful.bitako.com / ALD: http://afrael.loquesea.org/ El Colombiano: http://www.elcolombiano.terra.com.co/debuenafuente
EDITOR'S NOTE:
[1] HTML, English acronym of Hyper Text Markup Language (hypertext markup language) is a computer language designed to structure and present text as hypertext, which is the format standard web pages. With the type browsers Explorer or Netscape, HTML has become one of the most popular formats exist to document construction. HTML uses tags or marks, consisting of brief instructions for beginning and end, by which it determines how the text should appear, as well as images and other elements in computer screen.
[2] Blogger was created by three friends in 1999 as a small company in San Francisco, USA. It was recently acquired by Google, which has focused on providing people around the world the opportunity to publish their own views on the issue that decides to create his digital diary.
[3] Mailing List: Internet option that allows people to contact by e-mail and mass distribute information to multiple users simultaneously. Not all uses of this option brings benefits are often used as lists of thousands or even millions of email addresses for sending junk mail or spam.
[4] A Discussion Group: is an online forum in which participants feel adding messages to the forum. The term is similar to Usenet newsgroups. Usenet is an old set of newsgroups that still have traffic, but other alternatives have emerged that use the WWW through the discussion group.
[5] Haiku: Japanese poem with three lines. The first line contains five syllables, the second seven and the third five.
CREDITS: Translation by Eduteka the original article "Writing with Weblogs" by Glen Bull, Gina Bull, and Sara Kajder, published in Issue 1 of Volume 31 of the journal Learning & Leading with Technology ( http://www.iste.org/LL/31/1/index.cfm ).
Publication of this document Eduteka: June 05 2004.Última modify this document: June 5, 2004.
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