best practices for blogs.

Three Best practices for blogs:

1. Now this is great. I goggled "best practices for safe blogging" and came up with what has to be another students blog for this assignment in 2010. http://sheniseedublog.blogspot.com/2010/09/best-practices-for-safe-blogging.html. This student points out that one should obey the law and be careful not to break copy write laws. With so much access to information, it seems like more and more people are ignoring intellectual property writs. It only seems fair (and safe) to obey such laws. 

2. Don't share personal information someone could use to steel your identity.  This actually happened to my wife. Not only did she have lots of personal information on her page, she had a very hackable pass word that happened to be the same as her e-mail password. Bad things happened.
Found on: http://security.rit.edu/dsd/bestpractices/socialnetworks.html#dangersofsocialnetworking

3. Use built in privacy settings and restrict public access to your profile. This is also a good idea in avoiding what happened to my wife.
Found on: http://security.rit.edu/dsd/bestpractices/socialnetworks.html#dangersofsocialnetworking

the pedagogy of blogs

So far, I have not considered  the use of blogs in education. I am still unsure how I will incorporate them, but the following blogs have given me some interesting ideas. For engineering and technology education, blogs could be extremely useful for tracking and sharing a group (or individual) project. I would also use blogs to share updates in technology and so on.

The Mighty Writers 2007-2008 Third graders (Seattle, WA)   Blog is a really nice example of an educational blogs as is includes much information including students' works, teacher comments, photos, video, etc

http://cad-drafting-corner.blogspot.com/ gives an example of tidbits of information on CAD (the subject I teach the most).

Behind the shop Doors (http://blogs.hawkeyecollege.edu/behind-the-shop-doors/?Tag=industrial%20technology) is an example of an Industrial Technology community college Blog. It's a nice way to see what's going on at this college IT (that's Industrial Technology) department.