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Create and maintain a basic weblog
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| Create and maintain a basic weblog | ||
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| Home | Looking at blogs | Set up a blog | Manage a blog | Using a blog | Getting the most out of your blog |  |
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This is a development for a handbook of activities and lesson plans that will help people to teach and learn about blogging. It will be an introduction to the practice of blogging, from reading blogs and commenting, through initial set up and techniques for getting the most out of blogging.
Below is an arrangement of topics with learning activities being developed for each. Soon we will compile all of these into a printed and bound handbook for use at home or in classes and workshops.
If you know of lesson plans or activities that you think we would find useful, please share us a link in the discussion page. Thank you.
| Work in progress, expect frequent changes. Help and feedback is welcome. See discussion page. |
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: With the new navigation solution we don't need all the links below. These can be deleted when all the navigation templates have been set up. However, for the time being -- its useful to use this page as a "sandbox" until all the sub-pages have been created. I would use the home page for a very short overview of the resource and general instructions to learners. Possible including the aims? --Wayne Mackintosh 17:26, 8 May 2008 (UTC))
The purpose of this resource is to guide and support you in:
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Contents |
Steps to blogging
- "Blogging isn't just about writing posts, it is about getting out and reading other blogs and leaving comments and joining discussions..." Sarah Stewart, School of Midwifery - Otago Polytechnic
Looking at blogs
- What is a blog (Suggest linking directly to the Wikipedia article, or copying the article entirely onto the linked page here.)
- Searching for blogs.
- Public view and editing views
- Introduction to subscribing to blogs
Set up a blog
- Review public and editing views
- Preparing for a blog (email, username, password)
- Create an account in your chosen blog service
- How to start a blog at Blogger: [1]
- Create your first post (title, body, link)
- Comment on a blog (comment on each others with links)
Manage a blog
- Review creation of post
- Editing posts
- Change settings
- Presentation
- Create a user profile
Using a blog
- Adding pictures (from file, from commons)
- Adding hyperlinks
- Adding video and audio (from commons)
- Attaching documents (from file)
- A look at the many uses for blogs
Getting the most out of your blog
- Using media
- Subscribing to blogs
- Widgets
- Commenting
- Comment audit - Moderate
- Comment on a Blog You've Never Commented on Before - Easy
- Sign up for a Comment Tracking Service - Moderate
- Ask a Question in a Blog Comment - Easy
- Comment on a Blog Post You Don't Agree With - Moderate
- Engage another Commenter in Discussion - Easy
Library of resources
- How to use Blogger
- Blog Overview
- Blog Malaise
- Connectivism Blog
- Writing with Web Logs
- 7 things you should know about blogs (PDF file)
- Blog Overload
- A closer look at why people blog (PDF file)
- Educational Blogging
- Blogger screencast. Audio, text and screen grabs on setting up a blog with blogger.
- Adding pictures to blogger. A video demonstrating how to insert images into a blog post.
- Making Hyperlinks. A video demonstrating how to make hyperlinks.
- Blogging for bosses - What Makes A Good Blog
- Blogging and KM. Discussion facilitated by Mike Riversdale, KM Specialist
More information about blogs
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
- http://blendedlearning.wikispaces.com/Weblogs+in+Education
- http://screencasting.blogspot.com/2005/05/everything-you-need-to-teach-and-learn.html
- http://static.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/gems/edtech/WebLoggingFinal.mov
