Category: Personal Blog 2013

Welcome to the final step in our free self-paced course to help you set up your own personal or professional educator blog! The aim of this step is to go through five things you can do to share and market your blog: Make posts ‘shareable’ Use social media Set up an email subscription Encourage others to share your…Continue Reading Step 10: Sharing And Marketing Your Blog

Welcome to the ninth step in our free self-paced course to help you set up your own personal or professional educator blog! The aim of this short activity is to: Help you understand how plugins are used on blogs. Show you how to activate and deactivate plugins. Activate plugins. What Are Plugins? Plugins extend functionality or add new features to your blog…Continue Reading Step 9: Working With Plugins

Welcome to the eighth step in our free self-paced course to help you set up your own personal or professional educator blog! The aim of this step is to: Share some free tools for creating videos online Explain some different methods for creating videos offline Explain the copyright implications of using videos Provide an overview of different video…Continue Reading Step 8: Creating And Using Video

Welcome to the seventh step in our free self-paced course to help you set up your own personal or professional educator blog! The aim of this step is to introduce you to a range of easy to use online tools that you can embed into posts and pages. Back to Top Why Enhance Posts With Interactive Tools? Originally,…Continue Reading Step 7: Cools Tools To Embed

Welcome to the sixth step in our free self-paced course to help you set up your own personal or professional educator blog! The aim of this step is to: Discuss copyright, fair use, and using images on blogs. Introduce you to Creative Commons. Explain how to find and add Creative Commons images to posts. Define free and public…Continue Reading Step 6: Images, Copyright, And Creative Commons

Welcome to the fifth step in our free self-paced course to help you set up your own personal or professional educator blog! The aim of this step is to: Explain how widgets are used on personal educator blogs. Introduce you to the commonly used widgets. Show you how to change widgets and add widgets to your sidebar….Continue Reading Step 5: Working With Widgets

Welcome to the fourth step in our free professional learning series on personal blogging to help you set up your own personal or professional educator blog! The aim of this step is to: Help you understand why commenting is an important part of your reflective blogging process. Provide commenting tips. Help you connect with other educational…Continue Reading Step 4: Connecting With Others

Welcome to the third step in our free self-paced course designed to help you set up your own personal or professional educator blog! The aim of this step is to: Help you understand how posts are used on personal blogs. Provide tips for writing effective posts. Teach you how to publish your first posts. Back to…Continue Reading Step 3: Publishing Your First Posts

Welcome to the second step in our free professional learning series on personal blogging! The aim of this step is to: Help you understand how pages are used on personal educator blogs. Help you set up an About page and Contact page on your personal educator blog. Back to Top Introduction to pages Pages on…Continue Reading Step 2: Setting Up Pages

Welcome to our free professional learning series on personal blogging! This series guides you step-by-step through the process of setting up your own personal or professional educator blog. Refer our class and student blogging series if you want to set up a class blog. The activities can be completed at your own pace and in any order….Continue Reading Step 1: Setting Up Your Blog