12 Lessons from 12,000 Blog Posts
It occurred to me the other day as I was watching the Red Sox home opener that over the course of the last ten years I’ve written and published more than 12,000 blog posts across this blog and a few others that I maintain. When I realized that I took out my notebook and jotted […]
Why You Should Use Videos In Your Blog
Using videos in blog posts helps to keep visitors on your blog longer. For teachers and school administrators, adding a videos to your blog is a good way to show students and parents who you are and what you sound like. And, of course, videos are helpful when you’re explaining something that needs visuals in […]
Why You Should Try to Use Video on Your Blog
This morning Isla and I posted a short video on YouTube to explain why you should try to include videos in your blog posts. Using videos in blog posts helps to keep visitors on your blog longer. For teachers and school administrators, adding a videos to your blog is a good way to show students […]
9 Lessons Learned Through Nine Years of Blogging
Today marks the ninth birthday for this little blog that I started on a Wednesday evening in 2007. Read that first post and you’ll see that I didn’t have much in the way of goals or expectations for this blog. It was just something I was doing to help other teachers. Back then I didn’t […]
Weekend Project – Identify a Goal for Your Blog
When it comes to blogging one of the patterns that I see every school year starts to emerge around this time of year. That pattern is, our blogs that we started with the best of intentions in August start to lose their momentum. It’s easy to blame the tasks of the daily grind of the […]
How to Put a Random Name Selector In Your Blog
Whether it is to call on a student to answer a question during a lesson or two choose a line leader for the day, we all have occasions for using a random name selector. The Random Name Picker from Russel Tarr’s Classtools.net is one of those tools that can be used in almost every classroom […]
Three Things That Get People to Read Your School or Classroom Blog
I run a lot of workshops for teachers and school administrators about using blogs and social media to connect with students and their parents. At the beginning of those workshops I almost always ask some variation of the question, “have you ever started a blog and then stopped using it?” Most of the time many […]
