Here’s some ideas from our workshop on how the participants can use blogging in their work:
- Use it in the classroom to make argument instead of a regular essay; and other students can comment on each other
- new medium for posting timely articles for the student newspaper
- getting feedback on essay for feedback before handing it in
- questioning local new media article validity
- more youth voice in the media
- Live Journal community to post announcements and community events (it’s informal now)
- call out to females at my school to find out why they’re always fighting
Folks seemed to have a lot of questions about how blogs get traffic. We talked about blogrolls/liniking, tagging, and searching. Check out Technorati.com to find out more about tagging and try Google’s Blog Search at http://blogsearch.google.com/.
