blogging for beginners: using blogs to promote your research
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Blogging for beginners:using blogs to promote your research
LSE Centre for Learning Technology
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License.
Outline
• What is a Blog?
• Using Blogs for Research
– Other uses
• Hands-on: Create your own Blog
• Blogging Good Practice
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About
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Search
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LinksAnother BlogA websiteJohn’s Blog
• Website• Easy-to-publish• Reverse Chronology• Comments• (RSS) Feeds
How can blogs be useful for research?
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Other uses
• Newsletter / Updates• Teaching
– Teacher’s course Blog– Students’ course Blog– Students’ personal Blogs
Hands on: Create your own blog with Wordpress
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Suggested Tasks
1. Create a Wordpress Account & Blog
2. Add your first ‘Post’3. Add a post that links to my blog
post4. Comment on another participants
Blog5. Change the Blog Appearance6. Add a post with an embedded
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RSS Feeds & Email
• Embed links (RSS feeds) to your blog elsewhere on the web
• Readers can ‘follow’ your blog
– Feed Reader
– Email Subscription
Good practice tips
• Clear purpose
• Develop a writing style
• Write regularly
• Tag your posts
• Short & concise posts with links
• Publicise your blog
More technical tips
• Backup strategy for hosted blogs• Spam protection• Take advantage of RSS• Blog Tools:
– Wordpress.com, Blogger, edublogs.org
