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=The Future of Blogs=

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A little context:

The Change: The Read/Write Web
 * It's as easy to create and publish content as it is to consume it.
 * "The World is Flat"--by Thomas Friedman

Blog History
 * Blogs have been around for about 8 years, but really have become popular in the last six.
 * Est. 80-90 million blogs ([|Technorati])
 * 120,000 new blogs a day, 1.5 million posts a day

Blogs (and other tools) are Challenging our Traditional Structures
 * Politics
 * [|My Barack Obama]
 * Media
 * "My readers know more than I do." --Dan Gillmor
 * [|USA Today example] (Online breakups article)

Blogs in education
 * Handful in 2001
 * Tens of thousands teacher and student blogs in 2007
 * Used as
 * Class portals
 * Reflective journals
 * Topical discussions
 * [|Secret Life of Bees]
 * [|Author's response]
 * [|Hillary's Blog]
 * [|Nata Village Blog]
 * E-Portfolios
 * Many other uses...blogs are flexible
 * Good starting l[|ist of edublogs and edubloggers at Support Blogging]

The Pedagogies of Blogging
 * Blogging is not simply online journaling or diary writing
 * Blogs are powerful tools for building learning networks
 * Links connect ideas and conversations
 * Blogging is synthesis of ideas, analysis, and extended reflection
 * Blogging requires intellectual sweat
 * Teachable environment for reading and writing in digital contexts

My Blog
 * [|Weblogg-ed.com]
 * 2,600 posts, 5,000 comments
 * Worldwide audience
 * [|Cluster Map]
 * [|The conversations can be powerful]

The Trends
 * Convergence of the tools
 * Blogs are now multimedia, can include wikis, feeds, etc.
 * Shifting "presence"
 * Microblogging
 * [|Twitter]/[|Jaiku]
 * Social Networking
 * [|Facebook]
 * More Collaboration
 * [|The Pulse]
 * [|LeaderTalk]
 * More ways to publish
 * [| Google Docs] allowing the ability to blog from the document. (Microsoft Word, too)
 * [|Diigo] ([|example])
 * [|del.icio.us]
 * RSS
 * Form will change
 * Multimedia
 * [|YouTube]
 * [|Podomatic]
 * Commenting
 * [|if:book]
 * Video commenting
 * Plugins
 * [|WordPress]
 * Widgets
 * [|Widgetbox]

The Questions:
 * How do we use blogs to deal with privacy and security concerns?
 * How do we use blogs to deal with intellectual property, plagiarism concerns?
 * How do we use blogs to tackle the literacies:
 * Reading, writing, editing
 * Collaboration
 * Network creation
 * Publishing
 * How do we use blogs to prepare our students for their futures?