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Creating a Blog & Best Practice
This document provides guidance on creating and maintaining an effective blog. It outlines key characteristics of blogs like reverse chronological posts, categories, links, and comments. It then gives steps to set up a blog using Blogger and best practices like having a clear purpose, regular posting, tagging posts, and publicizing the blog. More technical tips are offered around backups, spam protection, and using RSS feeds. Potential uses for teaching blogs are also listed, such as sharing resources, enabling dialogue, reflecting on teaching, and documenting projects.
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- 1. Creating a Blog& Best Practice Matt Lingard & Jane Secker, LSE Centre for Learning Technology
- 2. Outline Review -What is a Blog? Hands-on: Create your own Blog Blogging Good Practice Suggestions & Tips Using Blogs for Teaching
- 3. Blog Characteristics Messagesor posts Journal format / reverse chronology Use of categories (tags/ labels) Use of links Comment ing open to readers RSS Feeds
- 4. Hands on: Createyour own blog with Blogger
- 5. Good practice tipsClear purpose Develop a writing style Write regularly Tag your posts Short & concise posts with links Publicise your blog
- 6. More technical tipsBackup strategy for hosted blogs Spam protection Take advantage of RSS Blog Tools: Blogger, Wordpress.com, edublogs.org
- 7. Using Blogs forTeaching Share materials & resources Enable dialogue Reflect on your own teaching Document a project Integrate Multimedia How would you use one?
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