Blogs

Blogs remove the technical barriers to writing and publishing online, and the journal format encourages bloggers to keep a record of their own thinking over time. Blogs also facilitate critical feedback by letting readers add comments. These could be from teachers, students, or the wider community.

For students, a blog can be used as a living record of their learning: a place to pose questions, publish work in progress or provide links to (and comments on) relevant web resources.

Teachers who are subject specialists may want to start their own subject-based blog where they can provide up-to-date information and commentary on their subject area, as well as posting questions and assignments, and linking to relevant news stories and websites. Media studies teacher Pete Fraser runs one such blog (using Google's free blogging service blogger.com) for his students at Long Road sixth-form college, in Cambridge. Visit Long Road Media Blog

Wikipedia Definition

RSS Ideas for Educators - Lots of good ideas on using blogs & RSS

Blogging tools:

Blogger

MovableType

BlogSome

TypePad

Web-based Blog Aggregators

Blog Lines

News is Free

Newsgator

Mix Tools

Superglu - Can be used to aggregate several feeds together to be presented as one.