Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged blogging
Blogging Process – Find Your Flow
Mar 14th
Brian Grenier wrote a blog post back in 2007 that I think I missed where he asks the question how do you write a blog post?
Miguel Guhlin just wrote a great post in response to Brian’s thoughts. In my COETAIL course yesterday we had a great discussion around how blogging was going for those in the class. All of them just 5 weeks into blogging. It was interesting to hear that many of them say blogging as publishing. That they had a lot of drafts waiting to be published but they wanted them to be “perfect” or “publishable”.
“The thought that other can read More >
The Stick Turns 4!
Sep 19th
I can’t believe I’ve been blogging for 4 years…and that after 4 years….I still have things to say.
Last week while working with 5th Graders on their blogs and talking about blogging one students asked, “How’d you get to be famous?”
I love 5th Graders!
My answer: You have to write something that people want to read, and the more you write the more Google finds you and the more people read you. But first…you have to write something that people want to read.
Of course I could have gone into niche markets and finding a way to blog about something that someone More >
Socialize your Science Data
Sep 12th
As we continue to set up and learn about blogging in the 5th grade we’re finding ways to both teach skills and tie blogging to the content in which the students are learning.
Idea: Can we move the students’ science journals online?
The Set Up:Two classes of 5th Graders. Mr. Armitage’s Class and Ms. Hellyer’s class took time this week to post data from a recent science experiment on their blogs.
Skills:
- Write a blog post
- Take a picture, transfer it to a computer, upload it to the blog, insert into blog post
Task:Each student will now look at the data from a student in the More >
EdubloggerCon 2009 Reflections
Jun 28th
Last year I was pretty critical of EduBloggerCon. For me it was too big, too scripted, and…well…you can read the post.
This year….smaller, deeper, and more thoughtful. Exactly what I was hoping for and personally what I need to push my own thinking. It was one of those days where you went to one but watch others via Twitter. You wanted to go to all the sessions…and in some ways you did via the conversations that happened between the actual sessions.
Last year I said it was too big…around 250 people. This year around 75 people….not a bad size.
Last year it was to More >
Does Your Blog have a Search?
Mar 8th
I’ve found myself lately looking for posts on ideas or concepts that I know exist and not being able to find them. As I’ve been looking through the blogosphere I’ve been interested in how few people put a search on their blog so that others can search their content. So I thought I’d write a post on how to create a Google Custom Search for your blog.
There are a couple things I think every blogger should do when they get started to help others find their content.
1. Sign-up at Technorati.com for an account and go through the process of registering your More >
Teachers as blogging models
Jan 17th
I held a professional development session after school back in October around my K12online conference presentation Sustaining Blogging in the Classroom. I only had two teachers show up. Two teachers who have started blogging this year and were interested in taking it deeper and really making it meaningful to student learning.
Basically I told the teachers that you must model good blogging for your students. You to must read blogs, reflect on what you are learning, and link to other sources. That as a blogger your actions speak louder than words.
It has been fun to watch these two teachers grow into More >
Blogging, Classrooms, Clarence
Oct 17th
Today I sat down with the 8th grade team who asked me to come in and talk about blogging. All 8th graders have blogs and all of the teachers now how blog. But “Now what?”
I’ve only listened to half of Clarence Fisher’s Keynote for the k12online conference (Don’t want to ruin the LAN party fun!). He touches on how pedagogy has to change. Which is exactly what I told the 8th grade team today.
I sat down with them. All of us with laptops in hand and started by saying “If you are not going to commit to blogging…really commit to it, it More >
Where are the comments?
May 7th
Posted by Jeff Utecht in Random Thoughts
18 comments
The conversation that has been going on around Twitter over at Utechtips.com both here and here has lead to other e-mails and discussions around building networks and specifically how do you get people to comment on your blog?
The problem is….you can’t make people comment. What you can do is write compelling blog posts that make people want to leave comments. How do you do that….I’m not sure.
Seth Godin outlines 9 rules of blogging: