Elementary Blogging

This article discusses blogging in elementary classrooms for writing instruction.

A brief history of permalinks

Explaining permalinks is far more difficult then I'd imagined. Hopefully something like this history of permalinks will make it easier for me to conceptualize and therefore explain to others.

The beginnings of blogging pedagogy?

Instructors express what they believe to be their best practices for incorporating blogging into their classes, largely journalism it looks like. What I'm not fond of is that it "teaches blogging" rather then using blogging to teach something else, like the codifying of argument through blogging illustrations. I see this in other technologies that make their way into teaching. Suddenly there's a lot of teaching the technology rather then using it to reinforce some core value within the discipline being taught.

Blogging as writing practice

Two brief forays into the potentials for blog use: Blogging as Writing Practice examines blogging as a tool to integrate student writing into their lives, like creative writers are encouraged to do. Blogging as Class Content examines blogging content as a text itself.