Support Blogging! - Articles and Resources Once you have set up your WordPress blog, you might want to check the resources below: Free WordPress plugins As you might have seen, there are more than 20,000 different plugins for WordPress. Most of them are really useful and cool, but I thought I would list out the ones that are essential for bloggers. If you have some time, I suggest you to try them out since they are all free to use. 404 redirection – If someone accidentally goes to a page of your blog that does not exist (for example: yourblog.com/blabla), then he/she will be redirected to the homepage. Yoast SEO – If you are interested in getting more search engine (Google, Bing, Yahoo) traffic to your blog, then “Yoast SEO” is a “must-have” plugin. Contact form 7 – Want to have a clean and neat contact form to your blog within seconds? W3 Total Cache – This is a plugin for more experienced bloggers, but you will find decent tutorials for it from Google. Professional looking themes More traffic & visitors
Blogging 'I like the fact that we are making stuff that people in Japan could read if they have a computer. It's like we're making ourselves famous in our little, out-of-the-way town!' -- Megan, Age 10. 'Our student is genuinely excited to come home and show us what's going on at school. To read his own words and listen to his own voice on the Internet makes it all more real and fascinating for him. What are we doing? In collaboration with my colleague Mike Hutchinson, I have begun to introduce the tools of the Read/Write web to my students. How Do We Do It? We used the book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools by Will Richardson as our technical manual.We use a program called Audacity ( to record our students. Why It Matters? Most importantly, podcasting matters because digital media and the tools of the 21st Century are rapidly becoming the primary method of communication and influence in the world. Using Feed Readers It's not! Student Blogs
Top 25 Middle School Teacher Blogs Our list of top middle school teacher blogs features authors from across the county who share the common goal of helping students be successful and sharing their experiences and lessons learned so other teachers can benefit. Teacher Wife When Minnesota teacher Megan recently transitioned from teaching second grade to sixth, she learned an important lesson as she dealt with seemingly-overwhelming expectations and the desire to be just like the veteran teacher whose shoes she would be filling: her best is good enough. The Catholic schoolteacher, who proclaims a self-described ‘fetish’ for meticulously decorated and organized homes and classrooms, is an avid scrapbooker and fan of healthy cooking. The Classy Teacher Mitosis and meiosis were daunting concepts middle school science and math teacher Elaina Ann Weaver once dreaded presenting to her class, until lessons she found on the Internet thankfully helped save the day. Surviving Sixth Grade Mrs. Middle School Math Rules! Ms.
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