1. Blogging (RSS & the Read/Write Web) Darrel Branson ICT Educator Sunraysia Mallee Schools Network www.smsn.vic.edu.au

3. Blogging, RSS and the Read/Write Web Blog: A weblog, web log or simply a blog, as they are known are an easy-to-use web site (no HTML required), where you can quickly post thoughts, publish writing, and interact with people. Such a website would typically be accessible to any Internet user.

4. Blogging, RSS and the Read/Write Web RSS: RSS stands for 'Really Simple Syndication' or 'Rich Site Summary' RSS is being used to provide items containing short descriptions of web content together with a link to the full version of the content.

5. Blogging, RSS and the Read/Write Web The Read/Write web Will Richardson http://www.weblogg-ed.com/ The Read/Write web is about contributing to, and having a voice on the Internet as opposed to just being consumers of information.

6. http://www.bloglines.com/topblogs http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/W orld_Wide_Web/Weblogs/ Example Wikis Wikipedia - Free encyclopedia written by everyone! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki books http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

7. Why is it powerful? A way to improve writing Provide a real audience for writing An easy way to create a web site quickly Weblogs are a personal writing space. Easy, sharable, automatically archived. Weblogs are easily linked and cross-linked to form learning communities. Weblogs can become digital portfolios of students' assignments and achievements. Weblogs are a novice's web authoring tool.

8. What can you do with blogs? What are the possibilities for weblogs in education? http://anvil.gsu.edu/NECC2004/stories/storyReader$13 post short current events articles to invite students thoughts, reactions, and possible solutions create a literature circle post photos and ask students to create captions foster book discussions in the form of an online book club post a daily/weekly synopsis of ﾊ the curriculum taught ･ homework assignments a birdseye view of the class for parents honour and celebrate class achievements

9. Get a blog http://www.edublogs.org/ http://learnerblogs.org http://www.blogger.com http://www.schoolblogs.com

10. Educational Blogs School blogs http://www.westblatchblogs.org/ http://www.middleweb.com/mw/aaDiaries.html http://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/pivot/index.php Education bloggers http://www.ebn.weblogger.com/ http://www.weblogg-ed.com/

11. Keeping track… RSS Really Simple Syndication Look for an RSS link or a button on a web page. Copy the ‘link’ from the blog. (Right mouse click the link -> copy link location or URL)

12. Keeping track… RSS Really Simple Syndication Copy the link into your News Reader

13. Keeping track… RSS Really Simple Syndication You should now be subscribed to the feed List of feeds List of topics Content of the post

14. Keeping track… RSS