BlogsAtriades - adding value to the relationship between teachers and students Longroadmedia - blog for media studies students Juicy Geography - a Geography teaching resource blog Epping Primary school - online creative writing Reservoir East primary - online creative writing Teigncambodia - Blog for the 2006 Teign School expedition to Cambodia and Thailand. floatingpies - a THS art student's blog Boffins5000 - experimental school blog
The Guardian's guide to blogging NGfL guide to blogs Educational Blogs - resources (mainly technical) teaching and learning with film edublog - blogs (& wikis) for education
Things my girlfriend and I argue about - led to book deals EggBaconChipsand Beans - cafe reviews Julie / Julia project - cooking - won the Blooker prize 2006 Postsecret - is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. Geraldus - intensive blog posting by an older artist Shiraldus - words and music project from Glamorgan Demolition and Progress - more words and music from Glamorgan Barry Stations project - art and words blog Voga Art show 2007 - another example of an art exhibition from Glamorgan Rebecca's Pocket - is devoted to highlighting whatever catches Rebecca Blood's attention, and she's interested in lots of things. Iraq calling - life of a soldier in Iraq Blooker prize list - summary of some interesting blogs
The rest is noise - personal music blog by the music critic of the New Yorker Fractals of Change - a tech personal blog John Battelle - another personal tech blog Pepys's diary - an ongoing Pepys diary complete with good hyperlinking Caesar's blog - Fresh from the battle front. Alas no longer maintained. Dilbert's blog - an example of a professional's blog Max Kiesler - a tech blog
Digital Urban - all about 3d city models! Law east of Ealing - thoughts of an anonymous magistrate
Retrospectacle - Neuroscience student's blog Cyberspace rendezvous - another science student's blog Ben's Blog - a religious student's blog
Social blogsWindows live spaces - easy to use and upload to. Needs IE for best use. Yahoo 360 - ties all parts of Yahoo resources together. LiveJournal -open source social site. Not so easy to use. Think.com - protected social blogging for education
Blog softwareBlogger - free and easy to use. Probably the best start. Typepad - professional but not free. MoveableType - a bit old school but powerful. Upload onto a server. Wordpress - free and easy to set up and arrange on your own server. A good choice Squarespace - professionally designed blogs for a price.
Blog search enginesTechnorati - grandfather of blog searching Feedster - fast blogosphere searching. Can distingish between blogs, news and podcasts Blogpulse - index no older than 6 months.Imaginative engine. Bloglines - a popular RSS newsreader that includes a blog search engine Pubsub - innovative "subscription" searches (it's quite free)
Blog resourcesBlogging Pro - All sorts of useful stuff about blog resources Blogjet - posting software on steroids. Not free. Write a better weblog - good advice
WikisJot - good, easy to use wiki creator. Pay for extras. Bluwiki - totally free but may require a tiny bit of html fiddling. Bluwiki richkni - tryout wiki Wikitravel - travel locations across the world Wikia - wiki communities PBwiki - a wiki farm MediaWiki - is ideal for setting up and running websites where the intent is to allow collaborative editing by users Example wiki that users can experiment with Vidipedia - the free video encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Oldfield Park Juniors - an example school wiki
Web 2 sitesZoho Office - online replacement for MS Office Ajax 13 - online replacement for MS Office Create a graph - excellent free web software 37 signals - quality web2 applications Writeboard - shareable, web based text dox Backpack - online organiser Mypublisher - makes it easy to lay out your books to your taste and order them instantly online. Blurb - a populist publishing service simple and smart enough to make anyone an author Twiigs - Online polls. Share your opinions by voting on polls, creating your own polls. ToonDoo - a cartoon strip creator MySchoolLog - an online web-based application to organize your school life easily. tteach - online teaching and learning Bubbl.us - lets you brainstorm online. Kayuda - a web-based visual wiki, a mind-mapping tool, and a non-linear writing tool that allows you to track ideas and the relationships between them. Calendarhub - create a calendar that you can access from anywhere Netvibes - personalised start page with plenty of ajax Orb - stream your live TV, photos, music and videos to any web-enabled device. Digg - a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. Tailrank - Tailrank is a memetracker which finds the hottest posts from thousands of blogs so you don't have to! TechCrunch - a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. Kevin Sites in the hotzone - good range of news from dangerous places Feedburner - is the world's largest feed management provider LinkedIn - is an online network of more than 6 million professionals from around the world Current webstyle - sum up the current state-of-the-art in graphic design for web pages, and identify the distinctive features eyeOS - eyeOS is an open source web desktop environment, commonly known as web operating system (Web OS) or Web Office zamzar - free file conversions (all sorts)
Flickr and photo sharing examplesTiverton High School - good use of Flickr online display and storage Teign - photos from a school trip to New York Devon ICT Art - flickr collaboration between schools East Devon RTC - E-Portfolios in flickr for Art and Design thegreatmoor - a trial flickr account Geraldus John - an artist's flickr Best Flickr photographers - title says it all Macro flickr - superb animal and plant macro photos.
Picnik - online image processing Fauxto - photoshop type online image editor Pixenate - simple quick picture editing with few frills Snipshot - good basic photo editing Iaza - convert digital pictures online Comparative review - of online editors Retrievr - Retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch. yotophoto - Licence aware image searching Del.icio.us art resources - lots of useful art resources pdphoto - public domain (and free to use) x000's of photos
Photo.net - upload photos for critical reviews Ephotozine - good all round photography site dpreview - a big digital photo site
Photobox - print out your photos (uk based) in all sorts of ways Snapfish - print your photos
Photoshop stuffPhotoshop lab - good tutorials photojojo - there's a whole world of things you can do with your photos and with your camera that nobody ever told you about.
OthersRadiowaves - school radio online Go2web20 - A web2 directory
Art websitesArtchive - Mark Harden's resource cgfa - Carol Gerten's online collection of pictures Web Gallery of Art - thousands of medieval and baroque pictures
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