Creating a Blog & Best Practice

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Matt Lingard, Learning Technologist at LSE, added this to the event Information Literacy meets Library 2.0

Creating a Blog & Best Practice Matt Lingard & Jane Secker, LSE Centre for Learning Technology
Outline
- Review - What is a Blog?
- Hands-on: Create your own Blog
- Blogging Good Practice
- Using Blogs for Teaching
Blog Characteristics
- Messages or posts
- Journal format / reverse chronology
- Use of categories (tags/ labels)
- Use of links
- Comment ing open to readers
- RSS Feeds
Hands on: Create your own blog with Blogger
Good practice tips
- Clear purpose
- Develop a writing style
- Write regularly
- Tag your posts
- Short & concise posts with links
- Publicise your blog
More technical tips
- Backup strategy for hosted blogs
- Spam protection
- Take advantage of RSS
- Blog Tools:
Using Blogs for Teaching
- Share materials & resources
- Enable dialogue
- Reflect on your own teaching
- Document a project
- Integrate Multimedia
- How would you use one?