Blogging for teachers What? Why? Who? How?

A blog is a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of most early blogs http://www.sussexlearningnetwork.org.uk/glossary/B What?

Blogs are easy to publish and easy for people to read. You publish by logging in and typing into a form (just like e-mail). Readers go to a single page Web site and find your most recent work at the top. Keith Burnett, Nov 3rd What?

What?

What? Blog title

What? 'About' section Blog title

What? Title of 'post' Date Text of post

What?

What? Perma-link

What? Perma-link Comments

What? Perma-link Comments Links to post from other blogs

No barriers Post Web links for your students to follow Links build up over the weeks Use as basis for Moodle course next year Get known Blog about your area Link to other (good) people You get known more, reflects (positively) on College Why?

No barriers

Post Web links for your students to follow

Links build up over the weeks

Use as basis for Moodle course next year

Get known

Blog about your area

Link to other (good) people

You get known more, reflects (positively) on College

Not a place to let off steam Half an hour per week Feed every week if possible (some say every day but those are not educational blogs)‏ Why?

Not a place to let off steam

Half an hour per week

Feed every week if possible (some say every day but those are not educational blogs)‏

Who?

Blogger is easy to use and not blocked! http://blogger.com Owned by Google so reliable and won't disappear You will need an e-mail address You will need to think of the subdomain for your blog You will need to think of a screen name How?

Blogger is easy to use and not blocked!

http://blogger.com

Owned by Google so reliable and won't disappear

You will need an e-mail address

You will need to think of the subdomain for your blog

You will need to think of a screen name

How?

If you decide to use a blog to support students or to blog about practice, please e-mail me the address I can set up an 'aggregation page' that will show the two or three most recent posts from all our blogs. Google “RSS Feed” to see how this is done.