BI with Blogsor: Bibliographic

instruction in a wired world

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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 softwareFerdig, 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

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Case study: a 10 week syllabus

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Blog Services and Software

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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)

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Published version

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Behind the scenes version

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Main menu for our blog

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The Basic new-entry screen

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Fields for posts

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Final ‘posting’ options

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Edit entry screen

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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

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Surfing example

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Database search results

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Database search results: detailed record

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OPAC citation with notes

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OPAC-formatted example

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Reference to a future text

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Ping ex continued

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Traditional pings

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Including full text

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Categories

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Categories: back end

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Displaying categories and category archives

Code to display categories attached to a post:<b>Categories:</b> <MTEntryCategories glue=" | "> <$MTCategoryLabel$> </MTEntryCategories>

Code to display list of links to category archives:<MTCategories>

<a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"> <$MTCategoryLabel$> </a><br /></MTCategories>

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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 today2

Links• http://anvil.gsu.edu/wrinkles

ESL and EFL primary students writing together

• http://www.movabletype.org/• Internet Information and Culture

– The syllabus:http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jonjab/lib463

– The blog:http://www.whatsgrowing.com/jon/cyber/

• http://www.technorati.comsearch the blogoshere

• http://blogdex.net/“the most contagious information currently spreading” through the blogoshphere

• http://www.onfocus.com/bookwatch/The most-mentioned books in blogs

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