It often seems an effort to maintain a blog and there are obviously many reasons but one of those barriers is the perceived need to blog from a fixed computer at a desk, or using a particular piece of software or access to a webpage to author your new posting. However here's the thing... most blog systems allow posting via email!!!
It's safe to say everyone is familiar with using email aren't they?
This means you can blog on the move, from a bus or train, (from a car if you're not the driver), from your sofa or breakfast table or even from a beach on holiday if you so wish! ;-)
You can also set-up most blogs so that your group of learners can post to the blog by email - again from anywhere and at any time.
These emails can contain attachments such as images and sound files as well as text but don't worry many also allow you to moderate content before it appears!
We are using http://vox.com for this example but others that you may wish to look at and are used by quite a few MoLeNET projects are sites such as http://posterous.com and http://wordpress.com
Sites we may use or at least refer to during this session include the following:
http://www.twitter.com http://www.twuffer.com http://www.futuretweets.com http://spinvox.com http://www.vox.com http://flickr.com/creativecommons http://search.creativecommons.org http://tinyurl.com/ecpdflickr http://www.ipadio.com
Many of the technologies we have picked are just individual examples of tools which enable and facilitate wider particpation and inclusion. There are many more technologies and techniques but clearly it's how you use and apply them or indeed how your learners use and apply them that matters!
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