Online Sapiens Blog Personality Analysis

I used Typealyzer to find my Online Sapiens blog personality. I analyzed the newest 10 pages of this blog. 80% of the results indicate that the author of this blog is of the type:
INTJ – The Scientist
The long-range thinking and individualistic type. They are especially good at looking at almost anything and figuring out a [...]

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Teachers Should Continue Blogging. Twitter is not Enough

Twitter is not enough. I recommend to all my teacher friends to start or continue blogging:
David Truss wrote a great post, My blog is my PhD. He wrote:
It has been peer reviewed, and quoted, commented on, and even presented… furthermore, it has an extensive bibliography.
What do you think?

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Finding Useful Feeds For My PLE

I have found there are few blogs I want to follow. Blogs usually come and go and those that remain live, many times have a high noise to signal ratio, their posts are not always of good quality and are sometimes off topic for my needs
There are some Google Blog Search and Delicious searches [...]

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Learning 2.0: When to Use Wikis, Blogs and Social Networks

Which tools are appropriate for creating or viewing content?
Which tools are more focused on people or information?
Donald H Taylor explains very clearly the different uses for wikis, blogs and social networks according to whether they are used for viewing or for creating content, and also according to whether the focus of that content is mostly [...]

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Save and Share Bookmarks, Start Blogging and Only Then Use Twitter

Great post from Steve Matthews, Law Firm Web Strategy :
If you are using social media to participate and build a reputation, you need to back it up with some substance. And though some may disagree, my take is that substance frequently requires more that 140 characters.
Lani Ritter Hall blogged Where to begin and Adam [...]

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For Edubloggers: How to Build a Better Blog

Explains the About Me, Best Posts and Sneeze Pages. Also Why Do you Need to Write Good Descriptive Titles for your Posts. Shows who are your targeted readers.
Stuntdubl posted about the importance to showcase your top posts.
You probably have some GREAT posts buried in your archives that I will never see if you [...]

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Using Del.icio.us for Blogging

My previous post, Using Del.icio.us in Education has been bookmarked by several people. Some of them have become my fans, and my friends in my emapey Del.icio.us network.
In this post I want to show how del.icio.us can also be used as a Blog. From About Del.icio.us we read:
Save bookmarks to [...]

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Planning How to Use Your Edublog

Planning how to use an edublog is the most important part of the process. To help you decide what kind of edublog you want to create, here are some ideas.
Source: TOPICS Online Magazine

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Student’s Response to Blogging in the Online Classroom

When I switched from WebCT to blogs, I found that students responded very differently. In my first “blogged” course, the students spontaneously began conversations of their own on issues related to the content of the course, pulled in new content that interested them, and began showing up for class more engaged with the class [...]

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Motivators for Blogging

Blogging once or twice is easy. Blogging for six weeks is fun. After that, you’re facing the monster and it becomes a duty. And the duty may be responsible for the tens of millions of inactive blogs. So why do we bother blogging?
Source: Facibus On Blogging

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