Friday, November 2, 2007

Case Studies

Blogs can be used in a variety of ways and the following provide some excellent examples of how they can be used and what they can look like in their design
Personal diaries: Over 7000 personal journals can be found on http://www.diarist.net/registry/

CASE STUDY 1

URL: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/bestof.html

Title of Weblog: Apophenia: making connections where none previously existed.

Description: Danah Boyd’s is a prolific blogger and has used this blog to organise all her blogs topics. They include recent essays and blog posts that deal with particular issues in depth.

Content: Photographs and details, calendar, categories of blog topics, titles and dates, academic papers titles.

Comments: This blog combines the personal comments and views with her professional papers, presentations, thus using it as a means of sharing information and inviting comments. This provides an example of how an academic or educator can collate and comment on issues related to their area of interest.

Other examples:
Technology Twitter: http://www.technologytwitter.typepad.com/

CASE STUDY 2

URL: http://belindasboulesbowlsnballs.blogspot.com/

Title of Weblog: Belindas Boules Bowls n Balls

Description: A personal blog to keep in touch while competing overseas.

Content: Photo, personal details, topic categories, photographs, comments for readers, subscribe feeds.

Comments: This is a great example of how to keep in touch with people through travel or competing overseas.


CASE STUDY 3

URL: http://mlearning.edublogs.org/2007/10/24/online-mlearn-2007-review-tomorrow/

Title of Weblog: Mobile Learning – an online reflective journal on mobile learning practices.

Source: Mlearn 2007 post conference discussion

Author: Leonard Low – Educational Technology Strategist at Canberra Institute of Technology, Departiment of Flexible Learning Solutions.

Content: This blog provids a forum for delegates and m-learning enthusiasts to participate in conversation as part of the Flexible Learning Networks Community.
IT also provides links to wiki site, resources, and other feeds.

CASE STUDY 4

URL: http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/beesbook/about

Title of Weblog: The Secret Life of Bees

Industry: Primary school

Content: This example demonstrates how a class used a blog to carry out a conversation about a book being studied and collaborate with a broad network of participants. The blog obtained 2,300 word responses from the world wide web, as well as creating a weblog for parents interested in reading the book.

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