Task+2

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Visit more sites and sample blogs to define blogs and formulate ideas for using blogs–for yourself and with your students. You have just examined some general features of blogs and explored many different types of blogs. But what, exactly, is a blog, and how can you use blogs in education? These are the key questions for this portion of the process.You will continue to work within your group to explore more blogs. **What, exactly is a blog?** Below are several links to sites that attempt to explain blogs, blogging, and the blogging phenomena. With your group, examine at least three of the //Blogs Defined// sites and create your own definition of a blog. As you create your definition, consider:
 * What are the key characteristics of a blog?
 * What makes a blog a blog?
 * Are there “essential elements” of a blog?

**How can we use** Below are several links to sites that provide lists of educational blogs (sometimes called //edublogs//). Locate and examine at least three blogs that relate to your current position. As you examine the blogs, discuss them with your group, and compile a list of ways blogs may be used in education.
 * Blogs Defined:**
 * __[|Cool Tools: Blogging]__ ||
 * __[|Judy’s Web 2.0 Notes]__ ||
 * __[|What Blogging Is Not]__(by Will Richardson) ||
 * __[|What’s a Blog?]__(by Karl Fisch) ||
 * __[|Read.Think.Write.Repeat.]__(by Karl Fisch) ||
 * __[|How to Start Blogging in]__5.401 Words ||
 * __[|Blog Vocabulary]__ ||
 * __[|Blog Rules]__ ||
 * __21st Century Learning__ ||
 * blogs in education?**
 * How are other educators using blogs?
 * How are other teachers using blogs with their students?
 * Could you modify any the ideas to meet your own needs or your students’ needs?
 * What is one unit or lesson you currently teach that you might teach using blogs?
 * Now, to **present your group’s findings** in the first two steps, use the links below to post a response to these three questions:
 * 1) __How would you define a blog__?
 * 2) __What labels would you give the many different kinds (categories or types) of blogs being used in education?__
 * 3) __What ideas do you have for using blogs in your practice and with your students__?

__[|Support Blogging]__ __[|Blog2Learn]__ __SocialNetworking4Teachers__ __[|Classroom 2.0]__ (find lists by subject and/or grade level) __[|10 Ways to Use Your Edublog to Teach]__ Task 3
 * ducational Blog Lists:**
 * Other Cool Resources:**