Blogging Resources
Topic: Blogging Basics
Amy Garrett Dikkers sent a list of blogging resources that include an informational blog, school online sites that are actually blogs, and general information blogs. Here's her message:

I thought it would be easiest to just send you some links to blogs I know. That way you can post them on your blog as a post rather than them being listed in my comment. Perhaps more people can see them that way.

Information blog

NSBA's BoardBuzz This blog is a great example of the informative type you mentioned in one of your posts.

School blogs

[A lot of school blogs tend to look just like normal websites - to me, it's the interactivity that makes a blog a blog.]

Butlerville Elementary This is a school blog that is a sort of "point of first contact" for school-related information and activities. This one doesn't have too much in the way of interactivity. To me, interactivity is the cornerstone of blogging. (Hence the one person's comment about whether or not blogs need to be comment-based or comment-driven.)


Merriwether Lewis Elementary Another school informative blog - this one is more complex than Butlerville's. There is an article about the blog use at this school at.


Mead High School- School site that seems primarily to be informative, announcement-based.


Delano High School Informative, however offers some interactivity as there is a "discuss" function.


Long Branch Elementary Very basic blog using Blogger - but a good example of how school blogs don't have to be heavy on design.


Kern County Superintendent of Schools Bakersfield, CA


Intel story about blog use at Buckman Arts Magnet Elementary School in Portland, Oregon.


Blogs about blogging (especially in Education)


Rick's blog

Edublog

Weblogg-ed



I have some more information, but rather than overload you (and your readers), I'll stop for now. I've been thinking about blog use in education, especially related to administrators, for quite a while now.



I look forward to continued reading.



Best regards,



Amy Garrett Dikkers