Blogs: Save Time While Keeping Your Class and Career Current

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Blogs: Save Time While Keeping Your Class and Career Current Jim Luke Economics Professor Lansing Community College* Lansing, MI Forum Presentation League for Innovation in Community Colleges 2009 CIT Conference Oct 12, 2009 Copyright 2009 Jim Luke, Creative Commons Attribution Non-Comm License; Some images are registered trademarks or copyright of others. Used under Fair Use provisions of Copyright Law. *Opinions and views are the author's only and do not represent official views of LCC.

“In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not”

Choice of blog services. √ http://blog-services-review.toptenreviews.com/

Why Wordpress? Persistent

Forget diary. Think easy-to-update website. jimluke.com econproph.com

Syllabi and book lists: past, present, future

Teaching portfolio.

Up-to-the-minute CV.

Public calendar – office hours.

Resources for courses: one place, persistent

Organize resources with categories, tags, links, search.

Discuss “handouts” or homework with students.

Link & comment on news/web items – by course or topic. No more handouts.

No Wait! More Ideas! Program or course news. Special tutorials or help. Single point of contact. Broadcast to reminders to students via RSS, Twitter, Facebook, text. Store podcasts, videos, mp3's, ppt's Embed videos & documents Heck, build a course!

How a Blog Saves Time. Create/edit once, one place. Multiple courses instantly current via links Quick log-in, posting tools No html or files needed Tagged for retrieval Available anywhere Answer questions once

Don't just take my word... edublogs.com's Top 10 List 1. Post materials and resources 2. Host online discussions 3. Create a class publication 4. Replace your newsletter 5. Get your students blogging 6. Share your lesson plans 7. Integrate multimedia of all descriptions 8. Organise, organise, organise 9. Get feedback 10. Create a fully functional website http://www.edublogs.com/

Questions, Comments, Resources http://jimluke.com http://econproph.com lukej@lcc.edu http://wordpress.com http://wordpress.org http://wordpress.tv http://edublogs.org www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.no w/2006/05/what_exactly_is_a_blog _anyway.html

Questions, Comments, Resources Box 1 Box 2 Box 3