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Blogs
What is a Blog
A blog is a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.
Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.
Types of Blogs
There are various types of blogs, and each differs in the way content is delivered or written.
By media type
A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a linklog, or one comprising photos is called a photoblog
By device
Blogs can also be defined by which type of device is used to compose it. A blog written by a mobile device like a mobile phone or PDA is called a moblog.
Genre
Some blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs or travel blogs.
Edublog
A blog written by someone with a stake in education. Examples might include blogs written by or for teachers, blogs maintained for the purpose of classroom instruction, or blogs written about educational policy.
Legal status of publishers
A blog can be private, as in most cases, or it can be for business purposes. Blogs, either used internally to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or PR purposes are called corporate blogs.
Blog search engines
Several blog search engines are used to search blog contents (also known as the blogosphere), such as blogdigger, Feedster, and Technorati. Technorati provides current information on both popular searches and tags used to categorize blog postings.
Dickinson Blogs
Class Use
The Beat Generation Josh Kupetz
Student reflections on Beat Generation readings
The History of Church and State Neil Miller
Opinions and discussions on current events related to the separation of church and state
What is Religion? Dan Cozort
Student journal entries chronicling their experiences visiting various churches, temples and synagogues.
Italian 116 Tullio Pagano
Student responses to questions and audio recordings of language exchanges using skype.
Abroad/Travel
Students log their experience during a three-week trip. The Luce semester is an innovative, field-based curriculum in environmental science that took the students to Louisiana.
Allison spent a semester in China and blogged her experience for Dickinson to follow.
Professor Ball Jeremy Ball
Professor Ball's experiences during his semester in Angola.
John Miyahara John Miyahara
John Miyahara's experiences during his service in the Navy in the Gulf region following hurricane Katrina.
Podcasts
Latin Poetry Podcast Christopher Francese
Short poetry readings in Latin
The Bill Durden Show airs on WDCV-FM throughout the semester covering predefined topics and discussed by President Bill Durden and guests.
Chemistry Podcast Mike Holden
Enhanced podcasts that pair up images to illustrate the audio as the podcast progresses. (similar to a powerpoint podcast)
Blog Tools
Bloglines RSS reader for subscribing to blogs
Technorati Blog search engine
Odeo Create podcasts online
Audacity Audacity - Free audio recording software
