Important Sites to Know for Blogging
Blogging Tools
- WEBSITE NAME: Technorati
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://www.technorati.com/
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: This is a great site to use to find helpful blogs.
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: None
- WEBSITE NAME: Bloglines
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://www.bloglines.com/
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: This is THE place to subscribe to RSS subscriptions.
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: Just follow the directions. This is EASY!
- WEBSITE NAME: Pageflakes
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://nlb.pageflakes.com/
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: Pageflakes is your personalized start page with news readers, RSS feeds and various other features.
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: None.
- WEBSITE NAME: Furl your personal web file
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://www.furl.net/
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: Site will make copies of pages tied to a link.
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: May be good for storing pages that may be dropped over time.
- WEBSITE NAME: Weblogs in Higher Education
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://mchron.net/site/edublog.php
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: A weblog devoted to the uses of weblogs (blogs) and wikis in higher education.
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: None.
- WEBSITE NAME: Word press
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://wordpress.com/
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: WordPress.com is an easy and powerful way to start blogging.
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: Good way to set up a personal blog. Easy to use.
- WEBSITE NAME: del.icio.us
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://del.icio.us/
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: A social bookmarks manager. Using bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them.
- ANY SUGGESTION: None.
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Blogs to Visit
- WEBSITE NAME: Weblogged
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: This is Will Richardson's blog. What a great resource.
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: Try to add to his blog and as him to visit yours!
- WEBSITE NAME: Weblogged Links for Presentation
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://webloggedlinks.pbwiki.com/
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: This is the page of the coll links from Will Richardson's book and presentation.
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: None
- WEBSITE NAME: Blogger
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://www.blogger.com/start
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: This was the main page for our blogging workshop. This is a great FREE blog that you can create.
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: Have Fun!
- WEBSITE NAME: Craig's List
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://www.craigslist.org/
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: This is a great blog to model.
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: None
- WEBSITE NAME: Mabry Middle School
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://mabryonline.org/
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: This is THE blogging school to visit in Cobb County.
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: None
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Classroom Tools
- WEBSITE NAME: adavis
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://adavis.pbwiki.com/
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: An excellent source for managing and using classroom blogs
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: None.
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Cool Techie Stuff
• WEBSITE NAME: OddCast at Virtual Host
• WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://www.oddcast.com/home/
• FREE?: No
• DESCRIPTION: This site allows you to create an avatar and project your virtual self-image
• ANY SUGGESTIONS: Subscribing costs $10/month, so sign up and create as many avatars as you want and then cancel.
• WEBSITE NAME: Creative Commons
• WEBSITE ADDRESS: www.creativecommons.org
• FREE?: Yes
• DESCRIPTION: A non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright.
• ANY SUGGESTIONS
• WEBSITE NAME: Eyespot
• WEBSITE ADDRESS: www.eyespot.com
• FREE?: Yes
• DESCRIPTION: Use the eyespot mixer to edit and combine your videos, music and photos online! Share your mixes with the world for Free.
• ANY SUGGESTIONS
• WEBSITE NAME: Skype
• WEBSITE ADDRESS: www.skype.com
• FREE?: Yes.
• DESCRIPTION: Peer to peer voice service. Skype is a little program for making free calls within the US and Canada to all phones until the end of the year. Skype to Skype calls anywhere in the world are also free. It's easy to download and use, and works with most computers.
• ANY SUGGESTIONS
• WEBSITE NAME: Audacity
• WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
• FREE?: Yes
• DESCRIPTION: Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
• ANY SUGGESTIONS
• WEBSITE NAME: Bubbleshare
• WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://www.bubbleshare.com/upload/mmflash
• FREE?: Yes.
• DESCRIPTION: Use to share your digital photos and the stories that go with them.
• ANY SUGGESTIONS: Great for creating slideshows.
• WEBSITE NAME: YouTube
• WEBSITE ADDRESS: www.youtube.com
• FREE?: Yes
• DESCRIPTION: Watch, upload, and share your own or others’ videos.
• ANY SUGGESTIONS: Some things here are pretty risqué, so beware.
• WEBSITE NAME: eBoard
• WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://www.eboard.com/
• FREE?: No
• DESCRIPTION: eBoard is an easy-to-use online service that lets any educator create a web site in just minutes. Your eBoard acts like an on-line cork board where you can post information for students and parents.
• ANY SUGGESTIONS: Try the 30 day free trial.
• WEBSITE NAME: I Keep Bookmarks
• WEBSITE ADDRESS: www.ikeepbookmarks.com
• FREE?: Yes.
• DESCRIPTION: A web-based bookmark manager.
• ANY SUGGESTIONS: This is great for being able to access your bookmarks anywhere you have web access. You don’t need to have your computer to have your bookmarks with this tool.
- WEBSITE NAME: Glitter Graphics
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://glittergraphics.us/
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: This site allows you to create small titles in glittering graphics. The you can paste the html code into your blog/website.
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: This is good, but a little girlie.
- WEBSITE NAME: The Generator Blog
- WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/
- FREE?: Yes
- DESCRIPTION: This has a lot of REALLY COOL links of places to go on the web. You can get some GREAT things here - no really!
- ANY SUGGESTIONS: GO HERE!!!!!
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