Academic Musings & Tech for e-Learning: Blogging Basics

This weblog is my online journal for Instructional Technology ideas and NYIT course assignments. You may find my opinions on a variety of topics as well, and links to other subjects, primarily tech and education related, that I find interesting. Additional academic work, incuding lesson plans, articles and more can found by following the link to my home page.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Blogging Basics

Last week I attended a Blogging Basics workshop given by Nelly Yusupova, the President of the NYC Chapter of Webgrrrls. Nelly did a fabulous job presenting the information and there was a lively, diverse and interesting group of participants.

On Thursday, October 25, 2007 there will be another blog workshop on designing and implementing a blog. You can register for the workshop here. Consider joining Webgrrls while you're at it. Webgrrls is a great resource for anyone interested in tech-related issues and meeting interesting people with very diverse backgrounds in many fields. There are monthly meetings and lots of opportunities for networking.

Blogging can be a bit confusing for the uninitiated. I wrote a paper, A Look at Blogging in December, 2006 about blogging with ideas for using it in the classroom. You can download it here (it's a PDF file for Adobe Acrobat) and check it out. Using blogs for students to post and comment can be very beneficial for learning, and teachers and administrators find them to be a great communications tool.

For more teaching ideas, lesson plans and articles, see my Portfolio page at LynneMBailey.com.

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