These posts by Michael Martinez should help new edubloggers Build a New Community and Develop Web Friends and Allies

These are the best posts I have read, so far, about how to start to network to build your own community

I work online from home. The Onlinesapiens Blog is part of my online home business. I have my own online office at home. This is a list of links to fun stories from people working online from home, as I do.

1- I do not work in the nude and other issues with working (and learning) online | Janet Clarey
2- Working @ Home | Threadwatch.org
3- Threadwatch Support Group for Work-at-Homeaholics
4- Webmasterworld - How do you get them to understand what you are doing?
5- Breaking the monotony of working at home - SitePoint Forums

Please, let me know if you have or find similar fun stories to share.

I want to share the list of my favorite edublogs. These are the edublogs I check more often for new posts. I would like to thank to all these edubloggers for sharing so useful content.

Lisa’s Online Teaching Blog
Ignatia Webs
Virtual Canuck
Web 2.0 Teaching Tools
Openculture
mLearning-World.com
Self Made Scholar
The Rapid E-Learning Blog
The Bamboo Project
Making Change Blog

Planning how to use an eduweblog is the most important part of the process. To help you decide what kind of eduweblog you want to create, here are some ideas.

Source: TOPICS Online Magazine

When I switched from WebCT to blogs, I found that students responded very differently. In my first “blogged” course, the students spontaneously began conversations of their own on issues related to the content of the course, pulled in new content that interested them, and began showing up for class more engaged with the class topics. Needless to say, I was pleased. At the end of the semester I asked that first group of blogging students why they had had used the class blog so freely when students in WebCT classes had seemed reticent. What I learned shouldn’t have surprised me.

Source: Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

The emergence of blogs and wikis within higher education is causing the academy to reexamine traditionally held pedagogical beliefs. Once labeled as emerging technologies, they are becoming more common due in part to the increase in usage. While the pervasiveness of the technologies is growing outside of the academy, many are wondering how they can be included within the academy. Specifically, can these technologies be used to promote critical thinking, academic engagement and promote reflection? Do these technologies require a curricular shift or a mere revision? How can these technologies “fit” into accepted pedagogical practices?

Source: Effective Teaching, Quality Instruction and Professional Development

Blogging once or twice is easy. Blogging for six weeks is fun. After that, you’re facing the monster and it becomes a duty. And the duty may be responsible for the tens of millions of inactive blogs. So why do we bother blogging?

Source: Facibus On Blogging

Most of the time you spend blogging will be reading other peoples’ blogs and linking to them and writing commentary on your own blog about what others in the blogosphere are talking about. It’s a constant course in your specialty and keeps you on the cutting edge. Moreover, the linking between blogs keeps you in touch with the other thought leaders in your industry, even if you do not know them personally.

Source: Brazen Careerist