Why and How I Made this Blog….

This article explains how and why I started this blog. What tools I use, what I’ve explored, lessons learned and more…

How do I leave a comment on a blog?

Interesting Fact – Blogging can cut down on emails. How? Using the comments option and RSS feeds… This posts shows you how to leave a comment.

Happy 1st Birthday to my blog!

Today is my blog’s 1st birthday. April 18th. I can’t believe it’s been a year since I started this blog. It’s really quite amazing when I look back through all the entries…

Feeling Slack because my Dad’s got a blog!

Is nothing sacred? My Dad’s got a blog AND he’s getting more comments than me… If it’s not enough he humiliates me in real life…

LTT: Weekly Blog Challenge – Task 4

Inspiring colleagues

Regan Harding Guest BloggerA couple of things have made me decide to finish this series of challenges. The first being regular gig for Regan Harding as guest blogger on the engageme.net/blog, Regan is one of our team members and her posts have been very inspiring and I would like you all to go visit them… and the second, a link to a very interesting blog that I received by email today;
Using Blogs to Promote Authentic Learning in the Classroom

What a great list of resources! In particular, check out the Student Safety and Responsible Blogging section

Now for Task 4 – Email a Reader

This challenge is about thanking readers that commented on your blog and contributors from way back if you’ve been blogging for a while now. My suggestions would be to do it via a personal email.

LTT: Weekly Blog Challenge – Where are you?

Why?

What do you think about blogging in education? Why doesn’t it work for you? Does it work for you? Is it just another thing you need to do? Can you see any benefits yet? I’d like to invite you to comment on this post and start a conversation about it. What are the issues?

LTT: Weekly Blog Challenge – Task 3

So you have a blog! What now? What can you do with it? How could it be useful in Teaching and Learning or even social networking?

LTT: Weekly Blog Challenge – Task 2

In these five short tasks, we’ll be exploring some of the techniques you can use to embed blogging into your work, engage your colleagues and your students…

LTT: Weekly Blog Challenge – Task 1

Embedding Blogging into your Educational Spaces

In Phase one of the Technolog-e sessions, we looked at Educational uses of Blogs.

As part of this challenge, we will explore some of the techniques you can use to embed blogging into your work, whether that’s engaging colleagues, student, family or all of them (you get out of this as much as you put in) in the one space.
Your Challenge

It’s time to strengthen our network, collaborate more with our team, and email less.
So let’s start with our own Blog Challenge.

Note: One task a day (even a quick one) might be a bit much to ask of you, but you have some paid time for your role once a week. So I am asking you to take 10 – 15 mins to complete one task per week for five weeks.

To learn about the power of blogs, we need to start using them. There’s not much point me listing the blog challenges on our team wiki, so I’ll do it through my blog….

Blog Themes… can you claim one?

Creating and maintaining an online identity.

Blog themes are usually free and as such we can’t possibly expect others not to use the same ones. You have to pay for that!
But what if that person is someone you know? What if someone who has a fairly strong virtual identity and is in the same professional field, and is someone who visits your blog?
What if someone that you knew changed their blog theme to something almost identical to yours?

Would you be surprised when you visited their space? Would you be annoyed or flattered?

What if you had carried that theme through to other spaces?
Would you change your theme?

Youth and Social Networking

LearnScope Regional event focused on Youth and Social Networking in Education. Presentations came virtually via Adobe Connect and face to face. This resulted in some interesting discussion at lunch time about both the content and the delivery method.

Dear Readers… who are you?

ask your readers to do some self promotion.
So… “I’d like to get to know you well…” (sing it)

As well as giving you the opportunity to promote yourself on this blog, I’d like to take the opportunity to get to know you, on a more… personal level. Yes, I’m going to ask you to share something personal with me.

If you’re not comfortable with that, then share something that you use to strengthen your networks, encourage collaboration and, or resource sharing. I’d love you to post a comment, include a link to your Flickr/Facebook or other social networking site…