How to get started edublogging

In General on 5/5/2005 at 10:48 am

A colleague just asked me by email how she could get started edublogging.

She wants to build contacts with ‘peers / students/ friends / strangers’ in her area (education, culture), get feedback on her PhD research and generally ‘get into’ blogging.

I fired off this quick advice, do you reckon it’s appropriate:

First up: Go create a blog at IncSub Blogs (hey, it’s the best free edublogging service I know :o)

Then:

1. Start writing… useful / interesting stuff that other people will react to / value as information

2. Search Google for blogs that are in the area you are thinking about and comment on their blog / email them your blog describing the kind of things you are doing and would like to get feedback on (many will have blogrolls which will be good places to check for similar blogs)

3. Subscribe to those blogs RSS feeds in Bloglines (here’s a little guide on how to do that)

4. Keep on writing, commenting, reading & emailing…

Whaddya reckon? What would you add / change?

  1. You didn’t mention Technorati http://technorati.com or Pubsub http://pubsub.com

    Those are really interesting tools to allow people to track trends they are interested in.

    Scott Adams 6 May 2005 at 1am

  2. To be honest I probably wouldn’t recommend Technorati based on my experience of RSSing watchlists from them but you’re right, pubsub deserves a mention in the RSS field.

    I thinking of including Feedster… would you?

    James Farmer 6 May 2005 at 10am

  3. Hi James… I’ve taken advantage of your creative commons license and put your ideas up on our blended learning wiki… easy to edit!

    http://blendedlearning.wikispaces.org/Building+a+community+with+your+blog

    Michael Nelson 10 May 2005 at 10pm

  4. It’s a pleasure Michael, glad you find them of some value!

    James Farmer 10 May 2005 at 10pm