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The final presentation in a series of 3 to help EFL students and teachers learn how to blog and how to use blogger. This presentation goes into a few of the other hints, tips and tricks a blogger or an edublogger needs to make their blog "complete." From filling in a profile to EFL teachers and learners to learn the comments features of blogger.
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Blogging and
Edublogging
3: Get Your Blog Moving
Seth Dickens www.digitalang.com
Get your blog moving
Fill in your profile
Fill in your profile
A picture that’s important to you.
Go to your blog’s homepage
e.g. http://bloggingforlanguages.blogspot.com
Click on “New Post” at the top of the
page
Uploading a photo
Uploading a photo
A photo I care about
Search the internet (or your computer) for a photo that describes an area of Social Science that interests you
You can find wonderful, legally useable images here: www.compfight.com
Upload it to your blog
Write a post explaining why this science interests you and why this photo is relevant
Adding a “Hyperlink”
Link to a page you like
Start a new post describing a website that you like.
Any website is ok – I’d suggest something that will be useful to your classmates.
Describe what like about the site & anything you don’t like about it.
Select text you want to turn into a Hyperlink.
Could be words like “Click Here” or name site “Phonetics Focus.”
Click hyperlink button
Type your URL http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/
Homework for 16 November 2009
Write a blog post about one of the
following questions:
Which social science would you like
to specialise in with your blog?
Imagine what it would be like to
connect well-known social scientist
on your blog. What would you ask
them about?
How can our Canadian colleagues
help you to improve your English?
Explain one theme from Psychology
that you would like to explain to our
Share Your Blog!
Write the address on the White
Board
Remember, no www.
http://reetourbabber.blogspot.com
(not http://www.reetourbabber.blogspot.com)
Reflecting On Blogging
In which positive ways can blogs benefit
your classroom and learners?
How can you avoid “Blog Fade” with your
learners?
What other blogging tasks can you think
of that would interest your learners?
special guest
collaborative writing tasks
news / current affairs
commenting on video
controversial topics
commenting on an external blog of interest
Seth’s Blogging Challenge
Set a couple of blogging tasks for a
class you think would enjoy it
Encourage them to interact with
each other and you using the blog
commenting feature
We’ll compare our blogging
experiences the next time we meet
