1. 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 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.

2. “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 you. Or not”

3. Choice of blog services.√

4. Why Wordpress?
Persistent

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

6. Syllabi and book lists: past, present, future

7. Teaching portfolio.

8. Up-to-the-minute CV.

9. Public calendar – office hours.

10. Resources for courses: one place, persistent

11. Organize resources with categories, tags, links, search.

12. Discuss “handouts” or homework with students.

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

14. 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!

15. 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

16. 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

17. Questions, Comments, Resources
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18. Questions, Comments, Resources
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