This article made me think why applications could I use blogging for as an educator? I thought of several uses that I wanted to share. First I would need to decide if I had seperate blogs for each subject area, i.e computers versus account and business. I think with my current work load more than one would not be feasible.
Then I thought how would I draw students in, I decided there must be a way with the site I am building for my project to incorporate a blog in there. even if it is just a link to this blog or another blog site. I could post an announcement on the webpage when there is something new available and provide the link.
Then the third question I thought about and am still thinking about is content. Do I want this to be directly related to academics, like this is my post about how to write a paper or do citations? Or do I use it more to share announcements and happenings, or the third which I am leaning toward is to write blogs about current events that would tie into what we are studying and then vary the content for the different class types.
That is what I am thinking about this sunny fall Friday before my other ALOP class.
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Lots to think about when considering a blog. From someone who has done it on a regular basis I can say knowing what your content will be is huge. You want to be clear about what you are offering on the blog...if students don't find the information informative they surely won't check in - well, unless it's a requirement! ;)
ReplyDeleteDon't forget about the beauty of TAGS! You could tag different blog posts for different classes and for different content. If you then post easy access to your tags, your students could click on the tags that are important for them.
ReplyDeleteOne blog, all uses. Voila! (of course, I haven't quite figured out how that works in Blogger...but I used it a lot in LiveJournal and it was great.)
Subject matter , content does matter when you try to attract your viewer to your blogs.
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