Examples of Content & Lay-out:
From: Martin Belam's blog, Student journalist bloggers - The good, the scheduled and the risky - Part 1: The good
- Blogging the Civil War: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/disunion/
- 2C Worth: http://davidwarlick.com/2cents
- EdTech: Inspire, connect, engage: http://edte.ch/blog/
- Tales from a public high school English and journalism teacher: http://bgenglish.blogspot.com/
- http://movingforward.wikispaces.com/Education+Blogs+by+Discipline
- http://www.onlineclasses.org/2010/12/08/100-seriously-cool-classroom-blogs-for-teaching-ideas-inspiration/
- It's Getting Hot in Here is a student-run blog about social issues around climate change: http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/.
- Elementary school student: http://soccerstarr02.blogspot.com/
- I Think: http://ithink.edublogs.org/
From: Martin Belam's blog, Student journalist bloggers - The good, the scheduled and the risky - Part 1: The good
- Daniel Seth Levine is also mining a limited set of source material with lasting popular appeal - The Beatles catalogue. Every little thing is making its way through every song released by The Beatles - so far over 100 entries strong and currently working through 'Revolver': "Good Day Sunshine".
- What I liked about this type of blog was that they gave the person a defined set of content to write about, encouraged writing regular blog posts, and did something to provide entertaining content with a wider appeal than a blog about the mechanics of studying journalism. Journalists are seldom paid to write about their own industry, instead they need to assimilate information about another area, and deliver it in an informative and entertaining package.
- Another example is Jilliane Hamilton She blogs links to where she has been published elsewhere, observations on how modern media is working and interviews. I'm making a presumption here, but Jillianne's blog reads very much like she is a blogger who is studying journalism, rather than a journalism student who feels they ought to blog.
- Tom Johnson on the I'd Rather Be Writing blog shares 20 usability tips for bloggers (along with references): http://tinyurl.com/29z4vk.