Let’s say you have a blog you want students to read. How do you get them there? Show them RSS readers and encourage them to subscribe? Hope they remember to visit the website regularly? Or, do you put the blog posts in a place where they visit already, say Facebook? I just discovered how to [...]
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Check out “The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging” below! It’s a great slide show that tells you about the types of blog posts you might create. Have you written an Evangelist Blog post recently? How about a Classified Blog post? I found the presentation enlightening because the idea of mixing the styles up when I [...]
A huge opportunity came my way this week — my principal asked me to set up blogs for all our teachers. This is so exciting! I’ve noticed three different types of blogs teachers may be involved in — the professional development blog, the classroom blog, and the student blog. We’re interested in the middle one [...]
I think I’m on to something: Post-It notes make great note presentation media for the web. My classroom blog is designed to include lecture notes for the students — but I didn’t want to have to prepare pages of lecture notes every day. For a time, I tried putting the notes directly in the blog. [...]
Just because I teach students in a classroom in metro Atlanta doesn’t mean I can’t also provide a service to students worldwide. The following comment warmed my heart when it showed up on CEA Physics, the classroom blog I run: I have no idea who you are, but i am in eighth grade in Texas [...]
My conceptual physics class blog is a huge help, both with lesson planning and keeping the students connected. I consider my class blog a huge success. The following are concrete tips I’ve learned in the last year as a classroom blogger. Visual Interest is Key No one wants to read page after page of text, [...]
On the EDTECH mailing list, I recently offered the following advice to someone asking for a free hosting service for teachers: Any chance wikispaces or any of the free blogging sites would work? Unless the point is learning HTML, I find that either of these free options are excellent choices. They let the site builder [...]
Baby Eli, my nephew, is the subject of a great blog. And hey — I saw you comparing Nicole’s paragraphs to my measly sentences. No fair! Her kid isn’t even a year old yet. She’s still in the picture taking, write-it-all-down mode. Which is exactly why I love reading Nicole’s stuff. ELE5, Confessions of Eli’s [...]
My email signature includes a link to this site. Plenty of folks I correspond with tell me they’ve checked out the site and really like it. Thanks! I started Life with Rachel to share news of our lives with family dispersed all over the Eastern US. It’s my way of updating everyone on all those [...]
