1. Literature blogs Pat Pledger

2. What are blogs? Content organised by date United States: 8% of Internet users keep a blog and 39% read blogs Keep up-to-date with new books and trends Appeal for younger generation Useful for writers

3. Benefits of blogs Easy publishing Free web publishing space with Blogger or Edublogs Blogger Edublogs Simple to create New content published instantly Archive old material

4. Benefits of blogs Keep websites up-to-date Use as a section of a website

5. Benefits of blogs Engaging students - book discussion, reviews, poems, stories or journals

6. Benefits of blogs Enhance library programs Links can be made to podcasts and videocasts Place to store handouts about books and information about meetings and schedules

7. Benefits of blogs Filter information from many places Collaborate with people around the world

8. Keep up to date with trends Selection of high-quality weblogs will save time and add to professional growth Read Alert Achockablog Read Roger, the Horn Book’s editor’s rants and ravesRead Roger, Bibliosphere News http://parra-bib- blog.blogspot.com/Bibliosphere News http://www.bloglines.com/public/PatP

9. Blogs set up for student learning Book Look http://www.booklook.org/Book Look Book Worms http://central.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bookwor ms/Book Worms Book Nook http://central.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/booknook /Book Nook Book bites http://bookbite.blogspot.com/Book bites

10. Blogs set up for student learning Shelf Tales http://shelftales.wordpress.com/ http://shelftales.wordpress.com/ Hit4six http://hit4six.livejournal.com/Hit4six

11. Authors´ blogs Insights into personalities, the writing process and the publishing world Margo Lanagan - how she writes Scott Westerfeld - International covers Susan Hill - online chapters Young Adult novel, Mortal Ghost, on blog and and podcast http://mortalghost.blogspot.comMortal Ghost, http://mortalghost.blogspot.com http://www.bloglines.com/public/PatP

12. Book reviews The ReadPlus Review blog http://www.readplus.com.au/blog. phpReadPlus Review blog Chicklish aimed at adolescent girls http://keris.typepad.com/chicklet/Chicklish http://keris.typepad.com/chicklet/ Book bite http://bookbite.blogspot.com/Book bite

13. Promotion of books andnd reading Virtual display to promote new books What to read next Promote literature circles Reading rules http://readreadread.edublogs.org/

14. Factors to consider Purpose of blog - is this the best process to achieve your aim Time factor - posting, putting up covers, getting reviews Audience - who is it for? Parents, students, wider community? Are there privacy and safety issues?

15. Subscribing to a blog reader Useful blog collector is Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com Can get blog entries in your email with FeedBlitz http://www.feedblitz.com/

16. Reading blogs Use time productively Consider lack of depth in blogs

17. Resources Blog reader - Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/Bloglines Free blog sites: Blogger http://www.blogger.com/Blogger Edublogs http://edublogs.org/Edublogs

18. Resources Blogging across the curriculum http://heyjude.wordpress.com/200 7/08/07/blogging-across-the- curriculum/http://heyjude.wordpress.com/200 7/08/07/blogging-across-the- curriculum/ Transforming learning http://judyoconnell.wordpress.com/ Social Libraries http://www.sociallibraries.com/cou rse/nodeSocial Libraries http://www.sociallibraries.com/cou rse/node