or: Bibliographic instruction in a wired world 29 Jon Jablonski, Online Northwest, February

What’s a blog? (to me) Frequently updated website with a standard format –Most recent ‘post’ at front page –A public diary OR topical commentary with links –“The ‘intellectual cyberspace’ that bloggers occupy”* Uses blog software Ferdig, Richard E. and Kaye D. Trammell (2004). Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere'" T.H.E. Journal: 31(7). 28

BI with Blogs We can use blogs as replacements for: –bibliography management software (Endnote) –research diaries –3x5 cards –Sticky notes –Web bookmarks Blogs are currently being used in classrooms for: –News sites and newsletters –Group projects –Teacher blogs, students respond –Class listservs and threaded discussion lists 27

Case study: a 10 week syllabus 26

Blog Services and Software 25

Host-your-own Blog software Advantages: –Highly configurable –Searchable –Database oriented –Extensible –Categories (in MT) Gotchas: –Highly configurable –Need your own server –Additional software might be needed (MySQL) 24

Published version 23

Behind the scenes version 22

Main menu for our blog 21

The Basic new- entry screen 20

Fields for posts 19

Final ‘posting’ options 18

Edit entry screen 17

Case study: a 10 week syllabus

The research log Research tasks: –Tracking resources Web pages Database searches OPAC entries –Note taking Citations + narrative Cross references Features to exploit: –Cross posting and pinging –Comments –Categorizing entries –Image thumbnails –Copy, paste, copy, paste, link, link, link 15

Surfing example 14

Database search results 13

Database search results: detailed record 12

OPAC citation with notes 11

OPAC-formatted example 10

Reference to a future text 9

Ping ex continued 8

Traditional pings 7

Including full text 6

Categories 5

Categories: back end 4

Displaying categories and category archives Code to display categories attached to a post: Categories: Code to display list of links to category archives: "> 3

Other Possible Classroom Uses Framework for writing research papers* –Link back and forth to drafts of the paper –Use links as placeholder for footnotes –Paste notes into paper and then edit Annotated bibliographies –Yes, people still assign these Group projects with multiple author blogs * our extended example for today 2

Links ESL and EFL primary students writing togetherhttp://anvil.gsu.edu/wrinkles Internet Information and Culture –The syllabus: –The blog: search the blogosherehttp:// “the most contagious information currently spreading” through the blogoshpherehttp://blogdex.net/ The most-mentioned books in blogshttp:// 1