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Multiple Uses of an Edublog

Posted by Kristina Schneider in tips on 18 August 2010

Great tips by Nancy Rubin on how to use blogs as learning tools. She asks the question *what can I do with a blog* and comes up with some interesting ideas:

  • Post materials and resources
  • Current Events
  • Create a newsletter
  • Debate or Online Discussions (posts / comments / replies)
  • Collaborative Class Publication
  • Have each student maintain their own blog

I personally use it to share resources such as this one with others, whether it be tips that I find useful or reflections on what others people write. In essence, I’m sharing my journey as a self-directed learner with others.

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Great Tutorial for Beginners on Edublogging

Posted by Kristina Schneider in tips on 18 August 2010

Sue Waters really covers the basics quite well when she developed this tutorial for edublogging beginners. It combines the most important aspects in regards to style, content and efficiency.

The aim of the post is to help educators and students with their personal blogging.

Here’s my thoughts including recommended widgets:Order of widgets in sidebar

  1. Always put the most important widgets at the top of your blog
  2. Search widget – top of blog or top of sidebar
  3. RSS feed using Feedburner – here’s how to add it to your blog
  4. Subscribe by email using Feedburner – here’s how to add Feeburner email subscription to your blog
  5. Effectively use both categories and tags on your post to make it easier to find posts – here’s the difference between categories and tags

And that’s just the beginning.

There is so much more in Sue Water’s tutorial and I recommend it strongly.

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Edublogging – A Step Towards the Democratization of Education

Posted by Kristina Schneider in reflections on 18 August 2010

Great insights by award-winning Karenne Sylvester on the importance of edublogging.

I’ve decided to do this, partly on here but also, mainly, by specifically offering guest articles to my fellow Edu-bloggers  because it  is, in my humble opinion, working with your community that is one of the most, one of  the absolutely most essential parts of becoming and being a blogian:

blogging is not just about one person
who says that blogging is
either this or that

but what the wider community,
made up of each
of its individuals,
says it is.

Blogging, or what I refer to with my own students as the digitization of paper, represents an incredible realizable step towards the democratization of education.

We’re on an adventure.

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Edublogging as a Tool in a Personal Learning Network

Posted by Kristina Schneider in reflections on 18 August 2010

It’s great when individuals such as La Flecha can see that a blog is more than just a soap box or a diary but can see it as a means for initiating interaction within their personal learning network.

Up until the recent #ntcamp (my first-ever teacher-conference), I really saw my blog as mostly a place for me to work out my thoughts and elicit feedback from fellow teachers and bloggers about my experience — out of a desire to share and understand my situation, but my thinking has developed seeing it as a tool to actively grow as a teacher through interactions with colleagues and others who care about education. I recently learned that what I was seeking or attempting to develop was a PLN, or personal learning network.

Personally, I understand where La Flecha is coming from, but in order to move one’s blog from a our own diary to a personal learning network, one must build an audience with whom one interacts with on their blog, other wise, it will never move much further than a journal.

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