Creating Blogs & Websitesfor Education

Matt Lingard,LSE Centre for Learning Technology

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•Personal Publishing• What’s so great about blogs?

•Examples of blogs in Education

•WordPress hands-on• Create your own blog / website

•Blogging good practice

Outline

Easy-to-publish

• As easy as email• Single or many authors

• Design Templates• Free

Unique Structure

• Posts• Reverse Chronology• Tags (Categories)

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• Website• Easy-to-publish• Unique Structure• Feeds & Social Media• Comments

Uses for Blogs in Education

• Teaching• Teacher &/or student course blog• Student learning journal

• Newsletter / Updates• Showcase / Disseminate / Share• Participate in a Community• Personal reflection (e.g. your own research)• Personal homepage• Document a project

UK Primary Bloggers

“I love our blog, it’s so fun to go on.

I learn lots of new things in our blog.

I especially liked working with the other P5 class from Tannochside Primary on the rainforest.It’s awesome, I hope I get to come on tomorrow”

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/brilliantbloggers/

Chloe F, Year 5,Chapelside Primary School

Blog Post

Blog Index

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LSE Moodle

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[My blogging is] “driven by my need to create and sustain a community of researchers and interested people around my research area”

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Creating a Blog

• Institutional services• Blogging platform• VLE / E-Portfolio

• Free WordPress Services• WordPress.com• Edublogs.org

• Other Free Services• Blogger, TypePad

Create your own blog

Suggested Tasks

1. Create a Wordpress Account & Blog

2. Amend Basics Settings

3. Add your first ‘Post’

4. Comment on another participants Blog

5. Change the Blog Appearance

6. Add a post with a link &/or image

Today’s blogs

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Good practice tips

• Clear purpose• Know your audience and their purpose

• Write regularly • Tag your posts• Consider your writing style• Make use of links• Publicise your blog

Writing for the Web

• Users scan, sometimes read • Post Titles really matter• Lead with key information• Structure for Scanning• Plain language• Remove redundancy

Further Help

• Today’s links• http://bit.ly/blogpelc11• Contact me• m.j.lingard@lse.ac.uk

• LSE Blogging Help• http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/help/