Week 6: My visitors

Photo Credit: Ed Yourdon via Compfight You have been blogging now for at least five weeks. Have you been getting many visitors? Have you been receiving many comments? If your answer is no, then what are you going to do about it? How can you attract readers to your blog? When I first began blogging…Continue…Continue Reading Week 6: My visitors

Week 5: Guest bloggers

Every year in November/December Edublogs runs an award program. They ask for nominations for student,class, group, individual blogs and a variety of other things. Once nominations are in, they are looked at and a shortlist is created ready for bloggers around the world to vote on. The winners for best class blog in 2013 are…Continue…Continue Reading Week 5: Guest bloggers

Week 4: A picture is worth

Yes, this week we deal with using images, music and sounds in your posts. But can’t I use any image, music or sound that is on the internet? No, you must use creative commons or in some cases the fair use rule. But where can I find these images, music and sounds? Head to the…Continue…Continue Reading Week 4: A picture is worth

Week 3: Leaving footprints

I have spent a lot of time this week trying to find different resources to use when talking about leaving our digital footprint. These first two videos I use each set of challenges as it shows how easily a footprint can be created. It is not only you but your relatives, friends, newspapers etc also…Continue…Continue Reading Week 3: Leaving footprints

Week 2: It’s a small world

Welcome to the second set of activities. But first a little bit of ADMIN Firstly, with over 1000 students now registered, I am sorting out mentors to be allocated to students. I don’t want one student to end up with  more than one mentor but this will happen if you are on the student list…Continue…Continue Reading Week 2: It’s a small world