A blog is a website where journal-style entries are posted in reverse chronological order. Blogs often provide commentary on a particular topic and allow readers to leave interactive comments. Setting up a blog through Blogger is easy and free, requiring only an email address and choosing a blog name and subdomain. Blogs are useful for teachers to share resources with students, build links over time, and get recognized for their expertise in a particular area.

1. Blogging for teachers What? Why? Who? How?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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6. What? Blog title

7. What? 'About' section Blog title

8. What? Title of 'post' Date Text of post

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10. What? Perma-link

11. What? Perma-link Comments

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

13. 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

14. 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)

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16. 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

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18. 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.