Post(s) tagged with "blogging"
This tutorial uses screenshots and a video to show you how to follow blogs on an RSS feed. Note that you can also follow certain topics on news sites in your RSS feed as well.
Most of how I find articles and resources for Things for Teachers is via my RSS feed. I read blogs & news stories using it, and it’s been a convenient way to read information I’m interested in one place. If you aren’t using an RSS feed yet, consider using Google Reader… if you don’t have blogs to follow, you can start with my Teaching Blogs to Check Out page!
Blog with your students? Unsure what to do as the end of the school year approaches? This blog post gives some great options and offers up screenshot-based tutorials as well.
Read the other great reasons over at her blog post!
- Blogging encourages student voice.
First person writing lets the students share who they are.- Blogging creates a stronger connection with the teacher.
I’m a better teacher when I know my students better. When they blog, I learn a lot about them and am able to design lessons that interest them. (This is an important part of differentiated instruction.)- Blogging gets students writing.
The student who sent me flowers was literally unleashed. He had three required assignments, he wrote ten and counting. He ranted, he pontificated, he shared his thoughts — but he WROTE. And as he wrote, something magical happened. This student who didn’t really like essays loved blogging and sharing his hobbies and others responded.
This blog post provides some suggestions for administrator blogs to follow. I have a couple of them on my RSS feed and it’s nice to get the varying perspective sometimes! It might be worthwhile to check some of these out.
Richard Byrne outlines a couple of ways to create a web presence for yourself, which is increasingly important to do as a K-12 educator today. He includes how to videos and various resources to get started.
I know a lot of you are beginning spring break or will start spring break soon, so this is a great time to tackle this kind of project!
If you’re a teacher that keeps a personal blog, you’d benefit from reading the thoughts posted at huffenglish.com. There you will find common sense tips about blogging and what you should share on the Internet. A few examples include.
- Keep the conversation respectful. Making a lot of noise and attacking other bloggers might get you attention. The wrong kind, in my opinion. People won’t listen to you if you’re rude and nasty.
- Trust your common sense. If you wouldn’t say it at work in front on colleagues, students, administrators, or parents, you should probably not say it online.”
Check out the link to see what you can do to be safe when blogging.
Source: matthewdillon
I wrote this article under my pen name on Associated Content and you should check out these five great blogs!
Great choices!
Source: revolutionizeed
Edudemic’s post explains this well, but Diipo.com is a new social networking site made for classrooms. Based on Edudemic’s explanation and briefly visiting Diipo’s site, it looks like Edmodo and Ning had a child and called it Diipo. It the same capabilities I love about Edmodo, but adds onto it with blogging capabilities. It looks like (based on images from this post) Diipo also has capabilities of having different tabs for your classroom, which is something I would have liked to see on Edmodo (for example, if I posted an assignment, it could easily get drowned out by newer student posts and then be difficult to find).
The one thing I couldn’t find by quickly browsing is if students can only privately message the teacher or if they could also privately message one another. Edmodo did not allow students to interact with one another privately, which makes it easier for teachers to monitor what’s going on. I would be wary of Diipo if it allows student to student messages.
Otherwise, I definitely plan on giving this more thought in the future.
3 Stories an Education Journalist Should Write About, From an Educator
What I found throughout the day was a way for teacher bloggers to demonstrate the power of their voices by speaking in terms that the journalists themselves could write about. It was less about the struggles in the classroom and more about the factors that lead to the difficulty we’re facing with pinpointing the discussion around the classroom. We brought the discussions of race and class to the points made about recruiting and hiring teachers. We brought the idea of teacher leadership and teacherpreneurism to the fore of professionalizing and sustaining teacher quality. We even had a few opportunities to tell people whose only experience came from working with chancellors and district offices that we simply couldn’t agree with them.
Who I am: A third year high school history teacher at an urban(ish) high school in New Jersey.
What I blog about: Stuff related to education I like, and stuff I hope can help other teachers out. Technology, deals on supplies, helpful books. My focus lately is on educational technology & related resources. Occasionally, I also post things related to education reform. Because I post articles that I feel will be of interest to teachers with varying views, the political-related posts made here do not necessarily reflect my beliefs or opinions, nor do they reflect the beliefs of my employer.
What I like learning & reading about: Other teacher's opinions about and experiences with teaching & education. How I can enrich my classroom and reach out to my students. If you write about this stuff, let me know, because I probably want to read it.
What you should submit: Anything that could help a teacher.
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