Gearing Up for Blogging

Gearing Up for Blogging

Blogs and other social networking platforms have become a means for teachers to build professional learning communities online in which they share resources and discuss any number of education-related issues with other educators and experts from around the globe. The purpose of this assignment is for you to gain practice using a blog as a networking and learning tool by interacting with your colleagues in this course and the larger online education community. An RSS aggregator can help you manage multiple blogs by delivering updates and new posts to one place. An aggregator makes reviewing all your personal, professional, and class blogs quick and easy. This week, you will also set up an RSS aggregator to help you manage your blog and the blogs you post to.

*Note: If you still have a blog and aggregator account from the previous course, you may use them for this course. Skip to Step 3.

By Sunday, complete the following steps:

Step 1: Referring to the list of free blog sites in the Tech Resources section (or a blog site you choose), set up your own blog. Make it open to public searches and enable the option to provide a link for an RSS feed.

Step 2: Using the links provided in Tech Resources (or an aggregator you choose), create an account on an RSS aggregator site.

Step 3: Post the URL for your blog on the Blog Links Board.

Step 4: Using your aggregator, subscribe to the feeds of your blog and those of your group members. You can find the links to their blogs on the Blog Links Board.

Step 5: Copy and paste the URL for your blog into a Word document. Submit the document to the submission link.