{Throughout the readings, advice was given for successful blogging. What do you think was the best advice for individual blogging? What do you think was the best advice for classroom blogging?}
Best advice from the readings to individual bloggers? post regularly. As a consumer of blogs, this is the most sure-fire way to keep my attention. As a blogger, this is the single most stressful thing!
Best advice from the readings for classroom blogging? keep comment moderation on. It's the simplest way to filter out unwanted material in the comments section.
Although I didn't add this to my list, I agree that updating regularly (with interesting content) is a surefire way to keep readers interested. This may be an obvious point, but in terms of using blogs in educational organizations, this point is key. Students, first, will lack interest without regular updates to hold their attention. And second, if educators only use the tool once in a while, they will be letting a great, interactive learning opportunity pass them by!
ReplyDeleteI agree about keeping up with your blog. I struggle with this, and sometimes worry that my own blogposts are just boring prattle. But the flip side is, if you start a blog for your classroom or library and don't keep it up, the implicit message is that this it's not important. This can devalue not only the blog, but could also undermine any future forays into Web 2.0 applications.
ReplyDeleteI think that if you keep a specific intent to the blog, it may be easier to keep it up. A lot of the examples that were given, had a somewhat narrow, clearly defined scope. I struggle with my blog too,I think because it does not really have a scope or focus just yet. I found the blog easier when I was taking our reference class, because I was focusing on the reference observations.
ReplyDeleteI think keeping up a blog is stressful as well for the blogger. I have not done a very good job at all at keeping up with my blog for IST 511. Good advice for the classroom blogging. I can see where moderation is definitely necessary to ensure the quality of the posts that go up.
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