- Work skills! Students who blog are used to articulating their thoughts and processes (without realising they’re learning these skills) and will find it easier to do so when asked to for their courses / future jobs.
- They can use these skills to set up their own blogs and websites related to their eventual careers in the future.
- For creative students, it is another outlet for them that can feed back into their work.
- Students have been asked to put work onto blogs for university interviews, and even if they’re not, having a good blog can give them an edge at the selection stage.
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Skills For Students
The Purpose of Your Blog
Before you set your blog up, you need to think about
the purpose of your blog:
PROMOTION
SETTING
WORK
SHARING
GOOD PRACTICE
EXTENDING
INFORMATION FROM LESSONS
CENTRALISING
INFORMATION
Creating Your Blog
1. Go to Blogger.com
and
sign up to a google account (use your college email when it asks for an email
to keep it separate from any personal work).
2. When signed in, click on the New Blog button, give it a title, address and pick a template
3.
Click
on your title to get the edit bar up on the left – this is where you can change
the appearance of your blog. The main buttons you will use will be Layout and Template.
In Layout you can add a title image too if
you want it to look more personal. There is a template for this on the O drive
(O/Art 2012/Blogs)
4. Now you’re ready to post – click the New Post button on the left.
5.
Give
it a title and start writing. If you want to add a link, image or video at any
time, click the icon in the toolbar at the top and it will appear where you
stopped writing. When you’re finished, you can preview it or just click Publish and there it is.
6. Your new post will automatically appear at the top of the blogroll of anyone following you. When anyone you’re following creates a new post, it will appear at the top of your blogroll, with the date, so you can keep an eye on how often people are posting.
2. When signed in, click on the New Blog button, give it a title, address and pick a template
Template is exactly what it says – more appearance templates. If you want to
customise it more, use a simple template.
Layout allows you to remove or add items and move things around. Good
things to add are Links and Blog Roll. Blog Roll will be a list of
blogs you want to keep an eye on – really good if it’s a class / student
project rather than a promotional tool. If this is the case, make sure they add
you (and each other?) too.
4. Now you’re ready to post – click the New Post button on the left.
6. Your new post will automatically appear at the top of the blogroll of anyone following you. When anyone you’re following creates a new post, it will appear at the top of your blogroll, with the date, so you can keep an eye on how often people are posting.
Some Useful Links
Blogger Buzz - A blog about using Blogger.com
A glossary of blog terms - from Harvard Law
WordPress.com - An alternative free blog hoster
A glossary of blog terms - from Harvard Law
WordPress.com - An alternative free blog hoster
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