5 Great Live Blogging Tips For Teachers. This post was co-authored by Jennifer Carey and Beth Holland.
Live Blogging is a popular medium to convey information as it is announced. Unless you’ve been privileged enough to get an invitation to the latest Apple or Google Event, then you have likely seen the release of information via Twitter or other live blog platforms. Live Blogs include not only writing, but images, video, links, and more. In essence, they are multimedia publications. Most conferences have access to wireless, and their inherent nature and culture – engaging, interactive, and open – lend to a live blog platform.
Jennifer Carey (@TeacherJenCarey) began live blogging a few years ago while attending conferences about educational technology. If you would like to see some examples, check out my posts on the EdTechTeacher blog as compared to Jen’s posts on her blog. Jen’s Tip #1: Preparation Plan out the talks and sessions that you will attend in advance. Beth’s Revelation I did not do any of this. Jen’s Tip #2: Writing. Teacher's Visual Guide to Setting up A Classroom Blog. If you think Blogger is where you want to host your classroom blog, here is a step by step guide on how to do it. 1- First you need to have a Google account, if you have a Gmail account then that means you already have one.
Head over to www.blogger.com and log in. Once logged in ,you will land on a page that resembles the one in the screenshot, click on " New Blog " 2 Provide a title for your blog, then type in the address you want to use as URL, you need to keep trying till you find the one available. Next, pick up a template from gallery then click on " create blog" see snapshot below. 3- Now your new blog will appear in your blogger page as is shown in the snapshot below.
Here is what you can do on the editor : A- Insert Image To insert an image click on the image icon as shown in the screenshot below B- Hyperlink a word or phrase To hyperlink a word just highlight it then click on " Link" in the authoring bar and paste in the link as is shown below Now scroll down to " blog authors". Sue_Waters. March 5th at 8pm Eastern US Time and 9am Tuesday Perth Australia TimeWith Sue Waters, The Edublogger We've all been there, either we've started a blog and neglected it - feeling some deep-seated internal blog guilt or we've started a blog and sometimes just don't know what to post or how to make it grow.
Sue Waters, the Edublogger herself, is here to the rescue! Giving practical tips on how to get a blog started, how librarians and educators use blogs, and how to maintain and nurture a healthy blog without stress or guilt.Sue Waters Bio: Sue Waters is well known globally for supporting educators in their own professional use of the web and mobile technologies as well as with their students. She is renowned for her practical “how-to’s” help information on her sites including The Edublogger, her personal blog and Edublogs Help & Support. She is the Support Manager for Edublogs.Text Archive: Webinar Archive (PLEASE Wait at least 1 min for it to load :-)Edublogger Resources: