1. Blogging for beginners: using blogs to promote your research LSE Centre for Learning Technology This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License.Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License

2. Outline What is a Blog? Using Blogs for Research –Other uses Hands-on: Create your own Blog Blogging Good Practice

3. Most recent ‘post’ condimentum vel. Proin lacinia tempor mi, sed consectetur lorem vulputate eget. Donec venenatis vulputate purus et eleifen Donec quis ante id ante More >> Matt’s Blog Even earlier post Nam arcu sapien, feugiat in viverra vitae, interdum eu risus. Sed dolor nunc, porttitor sit amet faucibus tincidunt, dapibus sit amet purus. Fusce viverra libero eu velit lobortis quis consequat ante iaculis. Vestibulum sed convallis tellus. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Earlier blog post Pellentesque quis libero lorem, id tempus nunc. Sed iaculis, diam nec molestie semper, enim augue About Fusce viverra libero eu velit Search Categories Nam arcu Sapien, Feugiat I Vviverra vitae, Interdum Sed dolor Links Another Blog A website John’s Blog Website Easy-to-publish Reverse Chronology Comments (RSS) Feeds

4. How can blogs be useful for research?

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8. Other uses Newsletter / Updates Teaching –Teacher’s course Blog –Students’ course Blog –Students’ personal Blogs

9. Hands on: Create your own blog with Wordpress Image: Wordpress logo Subscription resource: No URL: http://wordpress.comhttp://wordpress.com Edited: No Amendments: N / A Date: Unknown

10. Suggested Tasks 1.Create a Wordpress Account & Blog 2.Add your first ‘Post’ 3.Add a post that links to my blog post 4.Comment on another participants Blog 5.Change the Blog Appearance 6.Add a post with an embedded image

11. Today’s blogs http://xxxxxxx.wordpress.com

12. RSS Feeds & Email Embed links (RSS feeds) to your blog elsewhere on the web Readers can ‘follow’ your blog –Feed Reader –Email Subscription

13. Good practice tips Clear purpose Develop a writing style Write regularly Tag your posts Short & concise posts with links Publicise your blog

14. More technical tips Backup strategy for hosted blogs Spam protection Take advantage of RSS Blog Tools: –Wordpress.com, Blogger, edublogs.org

15. Further Help Centre for Learning Technology –S169 –clt-support@lse.ac.ukclt-support@lse.ac.uk –x4697

16. Blog Characteristics Messages or posts Journal format / reverse chronology Use of categories (tags) Use of links Commenting open to readers RSS Feeds