Week 2: Jan.21 -27 Understanding and Starting a Blog |
During this week, participants will:
Extension: The World of Microblogging in Twitter
We had already commented on Blogger (Week 1) and Edublogs (Week 2).
Choose one of these blog hosts to create your own blog.
Consider the following issues:
If you chose Blogger,
If you chose Edublogs,
Make sure you edit your profile that is shown on your blog. People need to know who's responsible for the blog.
Consider moderation options. Are you going to moderate comments or not?
Consider adding word verification to the comment area to avoid spam.
a. Log in to your blog account.
b. Write a post with the purpose of your blog, your target audience and how you plan to achieve your blogging goals.
c. Add tags to your blog posts (always add blogging4educators as it is our session tag)
By tagging you're labelling, attaching personal keywords to your posts
d. Include your Blog URL in the folder labelled Participants'Blogs in our Yahoogroups Links Area.
Going Beyond: add an image and/or a link to your blog entry.
Remember to resize your photo to post on the blog.
You can use EasyThumbnails or Picasa to do it.
Check our Pageflakes for blogs of the week, microblogging in Twitter and an interesting reading.
Monday to Friday, Jan 21 - 25 |
13:00 to 14:00 GMT |
Skype |
Questions about Blogger |
Ana Maria's Skype Contact ID: anamariacult |
Monday, Jan 21 |
or any time you see my skype ID in online mode |
Skype | Questions on week 2 tasks | Cris Costa's Skype Contact ID: navysternchen |
Skype | Questions on week 2 tasks | Nina's Skype Contact ID: nagora |
Wednesday, Jan 23 |
Skype |
Questions about Edublogs |
Skype Contact ID: carlaarena |
Skype | Questions about Blogger |
Skype Contact ID: erikacruvinel |
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Tuesday, January 22nd at WiziQ
21 GMT Check your local time here.
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Links mentioned by Bee:
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Barbara Dieu is the Coordinator of the Foreign Languages Department and an EFL teacher at the Franco Brazilian secondary school in São Paulo. She´s been involved in collaborative projects online since 1997 and blogging since 2003. Check out Her Personal Blog.
Bee has developed a wonderful joint Blogging project with Aaron Campbell, The Open Web Publishing EFL/ESL project Dekita.org
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