Welcome to our class! This should prove to be an interesting and exciting week. As you know, blogging can facilitate meaningful interactive discussions. It also requires a group of participants focusing on common discussion topics.
This will be your chance to practice participating in an active blog while you find links to literature, find some "how-tos", post questions, reflect on images, complete surveys, and formulate ideas for your own class/work.
Please check out the links and let us know if you had any trouble finding the posted information. You'll practice posting to blogs each day by participating in a discussion thread that we'll generate. We're curious to know how you think you might use Web 2.0 tools with your students, socially, or professionally. Any thoughts?
How is a weblog different than a web page? How is it similar?
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All of the links seem to be working but I'm having trouble getting the Youtube video to play on my computer. Any suggestions?
A weblog is different than a web page because it contains a conversation between the author and others. It is interactive and changing frequently, while a web page is more static and set. People use a blog to discuss issues they are interested in. They are similar in the sense that both blogs and web pages can have hyperlinks and text that stays on the site. People use both blogs and web pages for looking up information and for entertainment.
A weblog is different than a web page in that it is interactive. This means that others can post their opinions and comments and then have others respond to them. A visitor to a web page cannot respond to it.
They are the same in that you can set up links to other sites in both of them, information is on both and they are both found on the internet.
Sorry, Dani, at this point I can't help you with your video problem.
The critical difference between a weblog and a web page is the interactive factor. The weblog allows people to react to information by having conversations with others around its content, unlike the web page. The similarities between these two types of resources are that they are informational to the user and the author can include various elements within its pages such as text, pictures and hyperlinks.
I did finally figure out the Youtube issue!
I'm wondering if you see any value in blogging with your parent community or with your students at this point - or do you feel a webpage would be easier to use? It'll also be interesting to see if your opinions change by the end of the week. I thought many of you raised good questions about 'why blog' if much of the contact you want to present is static. We'll have to continue our discussion as the week progresses.
Given my current level of technological know-how, I feel my contribution to the question of the differences between websites and blogs is mostly parroting what was said in class and what has already been posted. Blogging is dynamic in nature. Information changes regularly. Historically, websites have been static in nature for the purposes of portraying information.
A web page and weblog are similar in a few ways. Both can be sources of information about a specific topic. Web links, videos and pictures are associated with these as well. Both have the capability to help communication between interested parties. I have found that the infprmation on a blog can change much more rapidly and be more extensive because of the nature of the discussions that can take place.
Although there are certainly similarities between a webpage and a blog, they each serve a unique purpose. Blogs offer the advantage of social interaction/online discussion; they are created/posted on the internet without the use of specific software or a host server; and are easily edited or updated. Some information is static, however other information changes or is created by readers. Both may contain pictures, videos etc. however placement of these items within a blog is easier because of blogging templates.
A webpage is primarily a source of information with links to more information. The most significant difference is that a webpage is web 1.0 and a blog is web 2.0
I must confess that I am not as familiar with the tools that are available to us educators as I should be. I have seen weblogs and web pages. A web page is set up for people to view, get information from and perhaps either download information, or access a link to someplace else on the link. As best as I understand a weblog can do all the above (perhaps without as many graphics, but I am not sure) AND allow for the viewer to comment or someway or other interact with the sight. The targeted audience for such a sight would have the opportunity to view other people’s entries and weigh their own comments (as indeed I am doing for this blog). I probably could do a better job if my palms weren’t so sweaty, this definitely is nerve wracking.
As to if I would use this for the students or parents – right now I see advantages to using it for both.
A webpage might best be categorized as a Web 1.0 application while a blog may be consider a Web 2.0 application. Blogs are more interactive, commonly featuring comments, links, and mutimedia.
A webpage is a monologue. A blog is a dialogue. A webpage delivers information. A blog delivers information AND facilitates conversation about the information. Do I think I'd use a blog with students or parents? Probably not yet. But I honestly do see myself using it to interact with other teachers.
At this point I think I am the last one to respond so I have the advantage/disadvantage of reading all of your comments. This actually illustrates the power of blogging to me - I am altering what I would have said based on the comments I have read. I initially started to say what has already been said - a blog is interactive - a web page is not as conducive to real conversation or sharing of ideas. However I also want to add that some of the most powerful blogs I have seen come from personal thoughts, ideas, feelings shared on line and most websites tend to be for a specific purpose and much more information/research based. Just to give an example last year a friend of my husband's family was injured in a terrible accident. In an effort to share the progress of the victim the family set up a blog. It allowed people to get updates on the medical condition but more importantly you got to read the information as it was written by the family and children of the victim. I found myself crying, laughing, holding my breath, and feeling as if I were having a direct conversation with the people involved, but they were able to post the information from the ICU where no visitors were allowed - pretty neat stuff!
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