Please find below a PowerPoint presentation of a talk I gave to a group of iNote members in Dublin West Education centre on February 25th 2013. I discussed my experience of Blogging over the past year and some software and apps that I have found helpful in the teaching of English.

Internet Links and Videos used

‘A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser.’ Source
‘A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.’ Source
‘From “Web log.” A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.”‘ Source
‘A weblog is kind of a continual tour, with a human guide who you get to know. There are many guides to choose from, each develops an audience, and there’s also camaraderie and politics between the people who run weblogs, they point to each other, in all kinds of structures, graphs, loops, etc.’ Source

‘A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently.’ Source

‘A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. Individual articles on a blog are called “blog posts,” “posts” or “entries”. A person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”. A blog comprises text, hypertext, images, and links (to other web pages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular “area of interest”, such as Washington, D.C.’s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences.’ Source.

Wordpress.com

Step by step approach for Wordpress.com

Video Hyperlink

Blogger

How to post on Blogger

Video Hyperlink

English Teacher Blogs (Ireland)

Courtesy of @evelynoconnor

http://leavingcertenglish.net

www.sccenglish.ie

http://dgsenglishdept.blogspot.com/

http://meighan.edublogs.org/

http://6thyearenglish.tumblr.com/archive

www.juliecullen.weebly.com/english-class-blog

http://www.cbcenglishdep.blogspot.com/

http://collegebookclub.weebly.com/index.html

http://newenglishirl.blogspot.com/

http://calasanctiusenglish.blogspot.ie/

http://bccnsenglish.com/about/sylvia-plath/

http://5j2012msgreville.wordpress.com/category/english-education/

www.stmarysenglish13.blogspot.ie

www.stmichaelsenglishdept.tumblr.com

http://ienglish.ie/

http://pclm.weebly.com

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