Wednesday, September 17, 2008

2. How To Search For Blogs

Blogs can be a great source of information and "news". There's a blog out there for just about every topic (i.e. academic, professional, interests and hobbies) imaginable! Here's how you can search for a blog that interests you:
  1. In a new browser window, go to: http://blogsearch.google.ca
  2. Type a topic of interest in the Search Box, then click on "Search Blogs".
If you find some helpful blogs about blogs or blogging in education, please share them by clicking on "Comment" at the bottom of this posting. Be sure to include the URL of the blog in your comment!

Your Turn!
Subscribe to Your Favourite Blogs Using Google Reader!
Now that you have a Google account, you can use Google reader to subscribe to your favourite blogs! Start your Google Reader list now! Here's a video to show you how to get started:

Discussion
How might you use blog searches in your teaching practice? How might you and your students use Google Reader to foster learning and collaboration?

Please share your ideas here! Simply click on "Comment" at the bottom of this posting and add your 2 cents! The more we share with each other, the richer we'll all be!

10 comments:

Chris Lee said...

http://www.onedegree.ca/2008/04/idea-drunk-by-c.html

Bored? Out of ideas? Need a pick me up from the every day life of office social commentary?

Enjoy!

Sara said...

http://thejoyofchildrensliterature.blogspot.com

Reviews, resources and ideas to accompany an exploration of children's lit.

C. Fong said...

I think this blog, "Blogging is Elementary" is great!
http://mscofino.edublogs.org/2008/12/05/blogging-is-elementary/

Mr. Arkin said...

The Education Commons at http://touque.ca/EC/ could be useful.

Janet said...

Here is an interesting blog about how blogs will be effected by the current economic crisis. Who knew that blogs would be 'cut' like everything else in times of depression?



http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/12/05/the-media-recession-how-many-blogs-will-go-under/

S. Taylor said...

Well, I didn't search for blogging blogs. I'm interested in knitting blogs. Hope that's ok.I liked the set-up of this blog del l8r.
http://goknitinyourhat.blogspot.com/2008/12/radical-knitting.html

Mr. Vanek said...

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2910

gcicci said...

Enjoy the reading of this,
http://balcony-garden.blogspot.com/

Mr. Libedinsky said...

Hi everyone!

I was looking for some research material around the topic we are sharing. In many cases I find interesting that we pay a lot of attention to the technicalities of the work we are trying to implement, and maybe very little attention to what all this new technology implies in terms of teaching.
In very simple, but effective words, Jeremy Boggs describes three different roles he found himself playing as a "tech-teacher": a) the instructor as a role model, b) as a tech-support, and c) as a cheerleader.
It's a fresh, enjoyable entry on his blog found at the following url:

http://clioweb.org/2009/02/07/three-roles-for-teachers-using-technology/

Enjoy!

Anonymous said...

http://edtechpd.blogspot.com/2009/02/getting-started-with-social-bookmarking.html

Curiosity led me to a site that introduced social bookmarking using del.icio.us.

It adds another dimension to the sharing aspect of education. You can see what other sites people have bookmarked on topics.