The final presentation in a series of 3 to help EFL students and teachers learn how to blog and how to use blogger. This presentation goes into a few of the other hints, tips and tricks a blogger or an edublogger needs to make their blog "complete." From filling in a profile to EFL teachers and learners to learn the comments features of blogger.

1. Blogging and
Edublogging
3: Get Your Blog Moving
Seth Dickens www.digitalang.com

2. Get your blog moving

3. Fill in your profile

4. Fill in your profile

5. A picture that’s important to you.
 Go to your blog’s homepage
 e.g. http://bloggingforlanguages.blogspot.com
 Click on “New Post” at the top of the
page

6. Uploading a photo

7. Uploading a photo

8. A photo I care about
 Search the internet (or your
computer) for a photo that describes
an area of Social Science that
interests you
 You can find wonderful, legally
useable images here:
www.compfight.com
 Upload it to your blog
 Write a post explaining why this
science interests you and why this
photo is relevant

9. Adding a “Hyperlink”

10. Link to a page you like
 Start a new post describing a website that you
like.
 Any website is ok – I’d suggest something that
will be useful to your classmates.
 Describe what like about the site & anything you
don’t like about it.
 Select text you want to turn into a Hyperlink.
 Could be words like “Click Here” or name site
“Phonetics Focus.”
 Click hyperlink button
 Type your URL
http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Fo
cus/

11. Homework for 16 November 2009
Write a blog post about one of the
following questions:
 Which social science would you like
to specialise in with your blog?
 Imagine what it would be like to
connect well-known social scientist
on your blog. What would you ask
them about?
 How can our Canadian colleagues
help you to improve your English?
 Explain one theme from Psychology

12. Share Your Blog!
 Write the address on the White
Board
 Remember, no www.
 http://reetourbabber.blogspot.com
 (not http://www.reetourbabber.blogspot.com)

13. Reflecting On Blogging
 In which positive ways can blogs benefit
your classroom and learners?
 How can you avoid “Blog Fade” with your
learners?
 What other blogging tasks can you think
of that would interest your learners?
 special guest
 collaborative writing tasks
 news / current affairs
 commenting on video
 controversial topics
 commenting on an external blog of interest

14. Seth’s Blogging Challenge
 Set a couple of blogging tasks for a
class you think would enjoy it
 Encourage them to interact with
each other and you using the blog
commenting feature
 We’ll compare our blogging
experiences the next time we meet

15. Seth’s Blog
 www.digitalang.com/blog