Blogger “Next Blog” Solution? So I’ve been bumming since the Blogger Beta went live and the old hack that would get rid of that potentially dangerous (at least for classroom teachers) “Next Blog” button from your blog stopped working. But yesterday in one of my presentations here at NCCE, Glenn Malone offered up a solution. Problem is, I can’t get it to work on my MAC, but I think it might be user error on my part. Here is the work around that Glenn offered (and Glenn, if you read this, please follow up in the comments if I get any of it wrong.) 1. Here’s my problem…I can’t seem to open the code for some reason. UPDATE: Thanks to Dan Meyer who e-mailed with the final step. #navbar-iframe { height: 0px; visibility: hidden; display: none; (I wonder if that works with Classic Blogger as well?) Technorati Tags: ncce2007, blogger, blogging ShareThis
Whose Learning Is It Anyway? Best Blog Layout Tips & Design {5 blog tips Good blog layout and design is very important. It's easier than you think to have a beautiful blog with a great blog layout. So here are 5 blog tips so you can have the best blog layout in the blogosphere! It's nice to look at, and clean, and easy to navigate, and leads to people clicking around on a site, which is the ultimate goal. It should be unique and give people an idea of what your blog is about. The "rules" say that a header should be no more than 250 pixels tall, but you do have wiggle room on that. 3. 4. 5. Great blog design isn't rocket science-- you know what you love to see in a blog, just give people that on yours!
12 Tech Tools That Will Transform The Way You Teach! In a Simple K12 blog post titled “17 Signs Your Classroom is Behind the Times” they provide a list of things that characterize a classroom that has fallen behind. Number 16 lists a variety of technology tools that every educator should know about. As I read the list, I realized that although many teachers are interested in and excited about technology integration, they are too busy to explore all the new technology tools available online. This blog post is dedicated to all of the overworked teachers who just don’t have the time to seek out this information. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. [Note: StoryJumper is another online digital storybook maker worth checking out!] 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Book Club Blog Teaching Literacy in the Early Years How to Write a Blog Post in 70 Minutes or Less Blogging is an important part of my life. It the primary way I have built and communicate with my tribe. However, it is not the only thing I do. Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/slobo If you are like most bloggers, you are trying to squeeze it in between your job, your family, and a thousand other activities. After writing more than 1,000 posts, I have gotten better and faster with practice. Start the night before. Sometimes it takes a little longer than 70 minutes. Questions: How long does it take you to write your typical blog post?
Games That Work The Language Teacher Toolkit by Steve Smith and Gianfranco Conti is now available from Amazon. I don’t think that you have to use games to teach classes successfully. Inexperienced teachers should be wary of using games if class control is still shaky or if you have an unusually difficult class. That said, games bring variety and a bit of fun to lessons. Here is a list of some games which I have found to work well over the years. Strip bingo Give each pupil a piece of A4 paper which is then divided lengthways so that each pupil has a long strip of paper. Alternatively: pupils write down about 15 words on a long strip of paper and tear of from the top or bottom when you call the words. Pass the bomb Form groups of about 10. Baccalauréat This is the one where you give pupils a set of categories (e.g. towns in France, food, drink, objects in the classroom, objects around the home, hobbies, sports). This practises vocab and keeps pupils quiet (if that’s what you want). Alibi Dumb customer 1.e.
Removing the 'e' from 'e-learning' — Integrating important new technologies more seamlessly into our teaching. How to Write Effective Blog Posts The best compliment I ever receive about my blog is that my posts are short, simple, and actionable. Any time I get that response, I feel that I’ve hit the mark. When I get a lot of comments about uncertainty or when people seek clarity, or when I find myself defending parts of the post that didn’t mean anything, or when I get comments about the analogy and not the meat of the post, that’s when I know that I rushed it, or that I blew it. I’ve shared before about the writing practice, about how I get ideas for posts. This time, I’ll share about what I do to make my posts effective (or what I hope will be effective). Start With a Useful Title One thing we’ve seen in Third Tribe Marketing is that when people write a vague topic title for a forum post, it gets very little response. Lead In With a Story and an Image I use images to start your thought processes flowing, and I make the first paragraph a very small bit of personable information that will be relevant to the piece. It Takes Practice
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