People still blog?

Actually, they do. This presentation is intended as an intermediate or even slightly advanced workshop on blogging in the classroom. We will cover the benefits of blogging, some of the basic tools of the trade, typical features of blogging interfaces, posting techniques, social media integration, a few tips and tricks, as well as ideas as to how we can get our students to blog. Today's presentation is organized on the Google Presentation you see below...



The resources I will be using for this session are below:

• Networked Teaching & Learning - This is the blog I help maintain for the eMINTS National Center. It is full of thought-provoking discussions, ideas for teachers, and loads of resources.
• Suppl_eMINTS - This is a somewhat neglected blog I used to supplement my eMINTS training sessions. Since I write so often for the eMINTS blog, this one has been ignored somewhat, a common fate for many a blog.
• http://emintswincon.wordpress.com - This is the link for blog posts on WordPress. All the content on this blog can also be found on the next two blogs. If one were to look further back into this blog's history, content from previous conferences can be found.
• http://zacearlyemintsconference.blogspot.com/ - This is a blog created using Blogger just for this presentation.
• http://emints.tumblr.com/ - Finally, this is a Tumblr blog, also created for this presentation.

Now, to answer the question above...

Yes. People do still blog, despite its relative old age in the pantheon of internet content. Blogging is as vibrant as ever. According to Wikipedia, there were over 156 million blogs viewable to the public about a year ago. Plus, communities at places like Edublogs and TeacherLingo suggest that educators are active bloggers themselves. For even further proof, check the list at Support Blogging for many educational blogs all over the web.

So, hang on. It should be a wild ride over the next hour as we find out what blogging has to offer!