English Language Teaching Blogging

English
Language
Teachers…

Now
Blogging!

The Blog Carnival: Advice for New ELT bloggers
hosted by Karenne @ Kalinago English
http://kalinago.blogspot.com

27 bloggers
answered
writing over
40 posts,
sending
2 emails
What advice would you
on
ONE task
give ELTeachers interested
23 topics.
in becoming bloggers?
31 edubloggers
were polled.
2 bloggers
hosted ONE
guest-pieces
&
wrote these
community
4 postings
contain tips for
videos… you.

What is a blog?

• A web-log
we
• An online magazine
• A source of news in your niche
• A public diary
• A place to keep stuff
• Anything you want it to be!

What is an ELT blog?

• An online dialogue about teaching or learning English.

• A conversation with yourself, with a private or public
group of students, with a group of colleagues.

• An open discussion with an enormous global
community of like-minded educators.

• A great way to share professional development

Why I blog

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Vicki Hollett
Advice for bloggin‘ newbies, The Blog Carnival
July 2009 hosted by Karenne @ Kalinago English

Why I blog

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Alex Case

Why I blog

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Natasa Gojic

Why I blog

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Tamas Lorincz

The basics

• Each article is referred to as a post or a posting.

• Each article is categorized using tags.

• Newest posts are always seen first on the page.

• To review previous postings: use the search function,
visit the archives or click on the tags at the bottom of
each posting.

Number of Blogs / Time as a blogger

Number of blogs Time as a blogger

6% 9%
less than 3mo.s
6%
22% 3 - 6 months
1 6 months - 1 year
22% 1 - 2 years
2+
3 - 5 years
over 5 years
35%

Results based on poll of 32 edu-bloggers (not all ELT)

On getting started

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Larry Ferlazzo

On getting started

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Nik Peachey

On getting started

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Shelly Terrell

On getting started

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Lindsay Clandfield on Burcu Akyol‘s

Writing tips

• Do not only write about
yourself - you're simply not
that interesting.

• Write in simple sentences
using common words.

• Blogging is not academia.

• Don't try to please or impress
anyone – stay yourself.

• Write as if you know your
readers personally.

On blogging with students

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Carla Arena

I’ve been blogging for three years , since
January 2006 when I met Webheads.
My first blog was a class blog :
http://endelvallesi.blogspot.com

I’ve uploaded a lot of different activities,
from exercises to songs and games.

My students enjoyed it and saw it was a
different way of learning.

Some of the posts take a topic developed in
class and encourage more work, some are for
critical thinking.

Some of them are like doors to another blogs
or wikis with school projects.

Difficulties ? We haven’t got a good
computer lab. Most of our students do this
kind of homework at the weekends at home
or in the nearest cybercafé.

It requires time, the little time we teachers
have...but isn’t it funnier than marking tests
??
(received via email)

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Susana Canelo


English Language Teachers Now Blogging Burcu Akyol


English Language Teachers Now Blogging Illya Arnet-Clark

Why I blog

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Toby Crowley

Why I blog

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Graham Stanley

On finding inspiration


On finding inspiration

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Janet Bianchini

On writing great content

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Siobhan Curious

On the effect on your career

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Gavin Dudeney

On the effect on your career
The internet offers everyone - from the mightiest corporation
down to the smallest lone operator - the same chance of attracting
readers.
If you can use key words effectively, you can come up on the first
page of a Google search, competing on a level playing field with
the likes of the BBC or the British Council.
That's a great ego boost. But the "internet as democratiser" has
other benefits, apart from your pride.
By writing blog posts and commenting on others, you connect
with other professionals.
If you combine blogging with other free tools such as LinkedIn
and Twitter, you can join the "magic circle" of other bloggers,
thought leaders and illuminaries. In short, an "unknown" can have
as much voice and prominence as the industry greats, and has as
much chance of getting opinions and ideas heard along with
theirs.
(via email)

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Clare Whitmell

On stuff to know: RSS/ google reader

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Karenne Sylvester
English Language Teachers Blogging
July 2009 hosted by Karenne @ KalinagoCarnival edited by Karenne Sylvester, Kalinago English
Blog English

On stuff to know: widgets

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Ana Maria Mene

On stuff to know: images

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Vicky Saumell

On attributing photographs

• Use creative commons licensed images

• Reference the photographer of the photos you use
– (edit html) =
• alt= "description"
• title="name of photo, photographer, source"

e.g. alt="carnival" title="drum drama at Kelvingrove by
werewegian flickr.com"

• This will show up on hover and shows you respect the
photographer.

On embedding stuff into your blog

•To embed slideshares & videos look for the
share option, click, copy the code in the box.
•Paste this into the edit html version of your blog
posting.
•Change the width and height when necessary.

On stuff to know: blogrolls


On stuff to know: html

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Shelly Terrell

html (see it's not so scary)

• writes bold
• writes italics

• puts a break or
space between lines

• <center>puts something  To add a link within a comment
(adding to the conversation/
you embed in the middle referencing an article etc):
of your post</center>
<a href="http://the url that you‘re
linking.com/">text you want to appear on
the page here</a>

On stuff to know: SEO

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Anne Hodgson

On stuff to know: urls

http://myblog.com/2009/10/myposting
is always better than
http://myblog.com/2009/gen=?-view0p32

WHY?
• If a regular reader tries to get back to a specific page on
your blog she can find it again easily.

• Google recognizes the relationships between your url,
keywords and the text within your posting.

On stuff to know: making money

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Miracel Juanta on Nik Peachey‘s
English Language Teachers Blogging
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Blog English

On stuff to know: spam

Standardized, Paid For,
Insincere Crap

IMPORTANT
– Most bloggers use a spam moderation filter to avoid these issues.

AS A GENERAL RULE
– Typing urls into the comments on someone else's blog is SPAM….
unless
– you are adding to/ contributing to/ continuing on the conversation & are
simply letting the blogger and her audience know where.

On stuff to know: micro-blogging

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Neal Chambers

On time

Bloggers' time

16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
0 hrs <1 <5 <15 <40 100+
pcm hour hours hours hours hours
pcm pcm pcm pcm pcm

Time-writing content responding-2-comments
fixing-broken-links working-on-template
updating-blogroll commenting-on-other-blogs

On time management


On time management

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Isabelle Jones

On editorial calendars

• You don´t have to post every day. Set up a rythmn that
suits you and your lifestyle.

• Enter the dates/times into your diary and keep these as
you would any other appointment.

• It´s a good idea to have a regular schedule so your
readers know what to expect and when.

• It prevents blogger's block.

Why I blog

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Jeremy Day

Why I blog

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Lindsay Clandfield

On guesting

Unless you are a NAME in the world of ELT with many, many contacts (in
fact, you're new to blogging) then

Always give before you ask to receive
Who to give to?
• Any other blogger especially ones with a larger audience / years online

What to give?
• Something that matches the blogger’s main subjects.
• Ask the blogger what they’re currently looking for.
• Your very best.

Who to receive from?
• Anyone in the TEFL/TESOL industry, preferably people you know/who know
you (even if only virtually)!
• Other bloggers, offer to exchange wherever possible.
• Your most frequent commenters.

On audience


Why I blog / On audience

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Dave Royal

On audience

Number of Visitors

10,000+ v-pcm

1001-3000 v-pcm
Reihe1
101-500 v-pcm

1-10 v-pcm

0 2 4 6 8


On tracking your audience


On finding your audience / marketing = web 2.0

more 12hrs
does no
weekly
5-8hrs marketing
weekly

3-4hrs
weekly
1/2hr
2-3hrs weekly
weekly 1-2hrs
weekly


On getting good, maybe even great…

•To become a great author,
read the best books.

• To become a great football
player, watch how the best
play.

• To become a great blogger,
read the problogs:

 Darren Rowse/Problogger
 Seth Godin’s blog
 Chris Brogan’s blog
 Liz Strauss /Successful Blog
 Sue Waters/ The Edublogger

Why I blog

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Anne Hodgson

On blogging with others

• If you don’t have time to manage a blog by
yourself consider

– writing articles for the bloggers
– becoming a serial guest-poster
– participating in a group blog

On what community means

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Joao Carlos Salves

On community


On commenting

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Özge Karaoðlu

On commenting

English Language Teachers Now Blogging Kim Cofino

On how to comment

• Congratulate the blogger‘s ideas, expand the
conversation, ask questions, disagree or ask for more
information.

• Always enter the captcha/ spam filter password.

• If you don‘t have a blog, use your LinkedIn profile.

• If you have a blog, enter the url and your name/id in
the field provided.

• You can comment anonymously if you wish.

Blogosphere is a collective
term encompassing all blogs
and their interconnections.

It is the perception that blogs exist together
as a connected community (or as a
collection of connected communities),
as a social network.
Wikipedia (via Burcu Akyol)

Join the global conversation…

English Language Teachers Bloggers

Last thoughts: On respect

If a blogger writes about something you were about to post
about:
•

• Link to their post, state that you´re continuing on from
what you read there or presenting an alternate view.

• Save your draft and publish it in a month or two.

• Delete the post and come up with something new.

• Continue conversations, don´t hijack ideas.

• If you see a blogger doing something don't jump on
his/her bandwagon pretend the idea was yours.

• Never ever copy and paste another blogger´s full post without
FULL permission to do so.

Thank you ;-)
The carnival The carnival
bloggers photographers

Flickr.com
Alex Case Kim Cofino
David Berkowitz
Ana Maria Meine Larry Ferlazzo
•
Anne Hodgson Lindsay Clandfield • Wereweigan
Burcu Akyol Miracel Juanta • Alaskan Dude
• Dominic
Snappybex
Carla Arena Natasa Grojic
•
Sfmission
Clare Whitmell Neal Chambers
•
Dave Royal Nik Peachey • Oimax
Gavin Dudeney Özge Karoðlu
Graham Stanley Shelly Terrell
Illya Arnet Clarke Susana Canelo
Darren Rowse for the 31 day challenge
Janet Bianchini Tamas Lorincz
Special extra thanks
–
Jeremy Day Toby Crowley – Chris Brogan for 40 ways to deliver killer content
Joao Carlos Alves Vicki Hollet – Seth Godin for Tribes Triiibes

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