What is live blogging?

This free web 2.0 tool enables a live commentary about an event in text on screen in your own website. In a few easy steps the commentator sets up the live blog with a title and a starting time; emails an invitation to participants; adds a widget to an html page in their website and clicks the launch icon to begin. The participants visit the designated page on your website, blog or wiki and watch as your commentary flows. They can ask questions and make comments, send links etc, and you have the option to include these in the live blog.

Innovation OR Renovation?

The live blogging tool has been used for many types of events such as the one listed below. You can view more examples from the Coveritlive website. I am recommending that the tool be renovated to add value to sharing an educational event such as f2f workshops, online seminars and/or a quick grab of knowledge sharing in the form of instant elearning.

Television and Special Events

It’s not chat. It’s a live blog. Your readers come to your site to get the inside scoop on the show as well as pictures and videos. With CoveritLive you can create a weekly event for them to watch the show with you as you launch polling questions during the commercials or put an actor’s bio up for them to read. For big special events like the Oscars or Grammys, there’s lots for you (and them) to talk about so why not do it all in real time instead of ‘recap’ the next day.

The live blog is a hybrid of blogs, comments and twitter like postings. It can be a useful tool for specific educational occasions where not all can attend in person or at that time. The live blog remains in place for others to read in their own time. A real example of embedded innovative practice!

Live Blogging 2.0

CoveritLive's web based software takes your next live blog to a new level. Your commentary publishes in real time like an instant message. Their ‘one-click’ publishing lets you drop polls, videos, pictures, ads and audio clips as soon as they come to mind. Comments and questions from your readers instantly appear but you control what gets published. Try their software for your next live blog. Your readers will love it.

Live Blog Examples

The example Live Blog below was recorded on May 22 as I participated in one of the e-Gems live events in Elluminate with Kim Edgar. The live blog displays a summary of the information and instructions for using learning objects in the LORN repository.



For more examples of Live Blogs check out the Instant Elearning series here.

Knowledge Bank Online Events

Live Blog on Introducing Web 2.0