Teaching and Learning with blogs

I have a new interest now, what is it? Well it’s my blog. What do I want to do with it? There are many ways to use it. I have done some research on it and would love to share it with you. You can use it as an online publishing tool to create a website and add content on the Internet. But what’s even more important is that many people miss the wonderful potential that blogs have to connect to people and ideas. Blogging can be used to teach and learn. I am glad we all got the great opportunity to create our own blogs and now enjoy adding more. Let’s all take a good look at what blogs can do for us.

Many of us did not know that blogs can be used as a social and networking tool. We all want others to see and hear what we have to say. We enjoy finding others with similar interests and passions or perhaps in a completely different way. We enjoy reading what people have to say particularly if these are interesting things and discuss topics we care about.

The best advice I can give you, if you want to belong to a successful blog you have to find people and connect with them. Let other people know that you have a blog and are interested in what they have to say, and would like to start a conversation with them.

You can’t just be pretty and wait for people to discover you. The web is a huge place, and there are so many blogs out there. According to recent data there are 70 million blogs. http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/19/blog-count-for-july-70-million-blogs/
Bottom line if you want your blog to be found and read, you have to create personal connections.

As in all human relationships, creating a blog network is a give-and-take process. Give-in the form of comments, links, contributions to the discussion-and you will receive. Comments and links are what keeps your blog alive.

You can think of blog networking as a simple 3-step process:
Step 1: Create your blog community
Step 2: Visit blogs and leave comments
Step 3: Talk about what you read in other blogs and link to them

A final comment
You may be thinking: “Hey, this is a lot of work!” Yes, it is. Good networking is always a lot of work. You can do just a little bit, but you will find that the more networking you do the more people will visit your blog and will engage in interesting conversations with you. If you feel that nobody reads your blog or leaves comment, it’s time to go out and network. Remember this is a great way to learn more and teach more about great topics that you consider very important. And more importantly blogs are being used to Teach and Learn.

Thank you,

Josie

(Your comments are always welcomed)