'via Blog this'
Click the above link for the 10 don'ts that show you how to get started blogging -- as a teacher, your experiences may help others.
Briefly, you'll understand what TO DO:
1) Start
2) Choose Quick Design
3) Tag
4) Focus
5) Expect everybody will read it (digital footprint)
6) Tweet it
7) Describe & Evaluate What You Do
8) Keep it short
9) Hyperlink
10) Start :)
I would add:
11) Follow other educator blogs
12) Comment on other educator blogs
13) Join Twitter and Tweet
14) Join Flickr to store images
15) Use Creative Commons images (advanced search on Flickr)
Educators to Follow
Tracy Watanabe
Dare To Care Mrs D Krebs Class Blog
Primary Teacher Kathleen Morris
- Notes from McTeach
- Miss McMillan's Blog
- Just A Thought
- PLN - Not Just My Initials
- Ms. Naugle's Class Blog
- Paula's posterous - Home
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog
- 21st Century Collaborative
- Larry Ferlazzo
- Mr. C's Class Blog
- At the Teacher's Desk
- In For Good
- Teacher Reboot Camp
- Langwitches Blog
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity
- Always Learning
- The Digital Down Low
- Ed Tech Solutions Teaching Every Student by KAREN JANOWSKI
- Ideas and Thoughts Dean Shareski — learning stuff since 1964
- Ira Socol's Toolbelt Theory “Toolbelt Theory” suggests that we must teach our students how to analyze tasks, the task-completion environment, their own skills and capabilities, an appropriate range of available tools… and let them begin to make their own decisions
- Lisa's Lingo After more than 25 years of teaching, I still need a place to think through ideas.
- Open Thinking Alec Couros: Rants and resources from an open educator
- Reading and Thinking Out Loud Wonderful Reflection for Staff: A Teacher Resource for Learning To Blog
- SpeEd Change Ira Socol: The future of education for all the different students in democratic societies.
- Teaching Techie Marsha Ratzel: Reflecting on using 21st century technologies to amplify learning.
- The Edublogger Blogging Info
- The Tempered Radical Bill Ferriter on teacher leaders
- Stefanie Galvin teacher reflection
- Reading and Thinking Out Loud Wonderful Reflection for Staff: A Teacher Resource for Learning To Blog
Worth Reading
- A blog for reflecting on the opportunities and challenges in open education - K12 Open Ed
- Spencer's Scratch Pad
- open thinking
- Ideas and Thoughts
- 2¢ Worth
- Dangerously Irrelevant
- Digital Ethnography
- Wesch - Anthropology
- Steve Hargadon
- Weblogg-ed
- Reflections on Teaching
- Blogging About The Web 2.0
- At The Teachers Desk
Connectors
- Jenuinetech.com
- Teachers Connecting
- VoiceThread Wiki
- "The World is our Classroom!"
- The Global Education Collaborative
Hi Sheri,
ReplyDeleteI like your list of 1-15 of "do" to start blogging, and am honored to be part of the list you've provided of people to follow.
I was thinking about "focus" and to expand on that, I believe it helps to set a purpose for the blog. For example, my main blog's purpose is for my reflection and my learning. I often take what I'm thinking the most about and creating a post based on that. While my school district's campus blogs is primarily for tech tips/tutorials which are often based on questions I'm commonly asked about.
Kind regards,
Tracy
Thanks, Tracy. You are right about "focus." When I started blogging in in 2007, I separated out all the different areas of my life. At that time, it was important to separate work and personal. While it still is important, it is also now important to be transparent: perhaps a place like About.me to connect the different areas. And I now have way too many places, yet it all fits.
DeleteSo readers should take your advice: What is your focus? Which are yours and which are your employers? How will you share the different areas? How will you make these transparent?
Start small, but start.
Thanks, Tracy!