Tens of thousands of teachers have signed up to edublogs in order to set themselves up with a voice online.
Your edublog is a gateway into conversations that you never thought you’d have. Not only is there there the Edublogs community, but once you’ve got a blog, the whole education blogoshpere is your oyster.
But how do you get involved in conversations with other edubloggers? How can you use your blog to communicate with your peers and those in your wider community?
We’ve got some ideas for you…
- Set yourself up a blogroll
Nothing says ‘I love you’ better than a link in your sidebar. With edublogs you can easily set up a list of them, creating a ‘blogroll’, to your favourite bloggers and sites, they’ll most likely notice by searching on a site like Technorati, and you’ll have a friend for life :)
- Good old fashioned email
Add your blog as a link in your email signature, or simply email everyone you know with your latest posts… you’ll be wallowing in attention before you know it.
- Have an opinion
Everyone loves a rant, and your blog is the perfect place to have one. expressing your opinions openly and honestly is a brilliant way to get responses, stir up a discussion and start that conversation that you’re after.
- Comment freely
Now you’ve got a blog you can finally fill in that ‘URL’ field in comment forms - and there’s nothing wrong with adding a relevant link back to your site if you’re extending on the comment or adding another perspective there. You’ll be amazed at how many bloggers will follow the links and subscribe to your RSS feed.
- Trackback / Pingback
When you link to a specific post on another blog, you automatically send them a ‘ping’ - an electronic message that you have linked to them. If they have ‘trackback’ or ‘pingback’ facilities enabled it should show up as a link from their post to your site - another great way of joining the conversation.
- Search ‘n browse
Are you looking for education blogs? Well, we’ve got a few so you might want to go back to the homepage, scroll down and do some searching, or clicking on tags on the edublogs universe… you’ll be amazed at what you can find.
