Blogging for Beginners 2007 WEEK 3 Tasks - Jan 29th to Feb 4th Blogging: Off We Go!

Task 1 - Editing your Profile/Class Profile

Access The Blogger Tutorial and edit your profile/class profile.

Task 2 - Playing Around with Blog Posts

• Check the editing and posting Blogger Tutorial
• Post an entry and edit it.
• Play around with text format.
• Insert images (don't forget copyright issues) and hyperlinks to your blog entry.
• Invite participants in our Yahoogroups to comment on your first post.
• Comment on at least three participants' blogs

References on Copyright Issues:

10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained

Creative Commons

Task 3 - Discuss Issues related to Blog Safety

• Answer the questions about Blog Safety posted on our group blog (use the comment area).
    

   

   

Task 4 - Syndication (The basics of RSS, RSS in the blogging classroom, subscription to Feedblitz)

• Read about the reasons Why RSS is crucial for a Blogging Classroom
• Post a Comment on our group blog.
• Subscribe to our group blog using Feedblitz. It will let you be updated when there is a new post.

   

1st Guest Speaker

Phil Hollows,the Founder and Chief Executive of Feedblitz, the Internet's largest and most successful RSS and Blog to Email service

at Alado.net

- Learn how to subscribe to your students' blogs or other blogs that interest you and get updates in your e-mail inbox - Learn how to offer e-mail subscription to your blog and increase your reader community

Help us get organised for this session by adding your name to our group database if you're planning to join us!

Collaborators of the week

• Illya Celena (Bloglines)

• Graham Stanley (Netvibes)

   

Blogs of the Week

Teresa d'Eça's Blog with her 5th and 6th Graders 

Elected the Best Teacher Blog of the Year (Edublogs Award 2006)

Remote Access Clarence Fisher has much to say about blogging in the classroom

Check your work for Week 3