Excuse the delayed nature of this post. I am now writing up what I was doing in September!
What a blogging network is and can be
A blogging network can be a group of bloggers who blog on each other’s blogs - for example us http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Facilitating_Online/Participants or http://ictece.blogspot.com/
It can be a group of blogs about a particular topic - for example http://network.nature.com/
It can be an organized and catalogued collection of blogs such as at - http://kiwiology.co.nz/about/ which actually has quite a lot of websites and a few blogs which are no longer active because they have moved to another kind of media.
It can be a get paid for advertising network such as http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/
A blogging network that I have found is centred around Manaia Kindergarten. The teachers there are blogging with the children and with other teachers and schools. The blog also gets comments from parents and grandparents and other members of the community.
I have contacted Beverly Kaye and talked to her about the blog and our course. She and Tania Coutts have been doing an action research project around blogging. It would be useful for them to present their findings to other kindergarten teachers at an online conference.
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As a facilitator, how would you build a community of bloggers? What do you feel are the key steps?
ReplyDeleteGood question. A blog network seems kind of amorphous and self-building to me, but I suppose it doesn't have to be that way. I suppose I would network with the community that I already know. My instinct is to create a central space for everyone to "meet", but that seems to go against the whole blogging ethos of having separate spaces. Hmmm. I guess using the RSS feeds keeps everyone up to date, so I suppose I would encourage people to use that. It just doesn't seem an efficient way to build a community. I think that blog communities seem to be resistant to people trying to organise them? I can see that I will have to give this more thought. Comments welcome.
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