This session focuses on ways that educators can learn from regularly reading other people's teacher blogs and education blogs. An introduction to how to start your own education-focused blog will also be discussed and demonstrated. Free blogging services will be shared during the webinar. The session will also focus on the new UTA New Teachers website and blog and ways that people can be guest bloggers!

1. Teacher Blogs: Getting Started!
Educators as bloggers
Hosted by:
Peggy Semingson, Ph.D.
Justin Dellinger, MA
Marla Robertson, Ph.D.
Dr. Harrison McCoy
David Sparks, Ph.D.
University of Texas at ARLINGTON
Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction
New Teacher Webinar Series, Fall 2015
Recordings will be available of webinars.
No names will be visible in the
recordings.
Type in the chat window with questions
or comments throughout!
The recording will be available on our
YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/utanewteachers
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2015
1:00-1:45 PM, CST

2. Goals for the Webinar
The opinions of each the
presenters in the series are
their own individual
viewpoints and do not
necessarily reflect the views of
UT Arlington.
Our goal is for you to hear a
variety of viewpoints to help
support you in your first years
of teaching! We have been
down the road you are going!
– Support
– Respect
– Dialogue
– Sharing
• Ask questions and post
comments along the way.
• Main Q/A at the end.
• Make a list of “Things to
Google” later.
• Use chat window often.
• We will check the chat
window throughout the
session and respond in
“real time” as we can.
Tips for
your own learning

3. Recordings
Archive
Social Media:
YouTube [video]:
http://www.youtube.com/utanewteachers
Slideshare [PowerPoints]
http://www.slideshare.net/utanewteachers
Facebook Page [interaction/updates]:
https://www.facebook.com/UTANewTeacherProje
ct
Blog: http://utanewteachers.com/

4. • Thanks for joining us! Please use the marker/pen tool to mark a small x
below where you are at. You can also type it in the chat window.
WHERE WE ARE NOW:
Use the pen tool to mark your location

5. Poll question:
• Where are you in your teaching
career?
• Select A-E ptional! We will display the results!
• The drop down polling area is in the participants’
window next to the “hand” tool.
I am currently a:
A. Pre-service teacher
B. 1st-3rd year teacher & UTA graduate
C. 1st-3rd year teacher & non-UTA graduate
D. 4th year+ teacher
E. Faculty or none of the above

6. Our Presenters
Dr. Peggy Semingson Justin Dellinger, MA Dr. Marla Robertson
Dr. Harrison McCoy Dr. David Sparks

7. Links from Today’s Webinar
• Links from today’s webinar in one Google Doc:
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nODeI
PCpjPf--
QByVD8cIqEpl2HCChxQDI3n9g_2qYQ/edit#

8. Link to Recording of Today’s Webinar
• Click here to view the Blackboard Collaborate
recording of today’s webinar:
• https://elearn.uta.edu/webapps/bb-
collaborate-
bb_bb60/recording/launchGuest?uid=28204
be4-dc27-4dfc-babc-eb536efae448

9. UTA New Teacher Blog
Would you be interested in guest blogging for the forthcoming UTA New
Teacher Blog? If so, please contact Dr. Peggy Semingson directly and ask
to be. Let us know what topics you would be interested in blogging. We
are open to ideas and welcome one-time contributions or regular posts!
Benefits of blogging include influencing new teachers, building your skills
as a blogger, and adding it to your resume as a published venue!
http://utanewteachers.com/
Dr. Semingson: peggys@uta.edu

10. Blogging Options
• Free versus paid
• Teacher bloggers can connect with each other
• Read/Read + comment/write
• What are the benefits of being a [teacher]
blogger? Type your ideas in the chat window
• What blogs do you read or want to read?

11. Justin Dellinger, Research Coordinator
Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Lab,
The University of Texas at Arlington
A Domain of One’s Own

12. Follow Bloggers
Follow Teacher Bloggers

13. Follow Authors and Educators on Twitter

14. Join Professional Organizations

15. Just Do It! Wordpress

16. Just Do It! Blogger

17. Just Do It! Weebly

18. Teacher Blogs:
Getting Started
@drharrisonmccoy
theothereduguy.blogspot.com
2015

19. Think about why you are blogging
1. Share Your Best Ideas
2. Reflect on Your Process
3. Create an Authentic Audience
4. Become a Resource
5. Plan Your Own PD
6. Create a Digital Presence
7. Be Ahead of Your Students
8. Showcase Student Work

20. Decide what you
will call your blog
Connect with what your blog posts will
consist of and play with words that will
help communicate the content as well
as the spirit.
Imagine a memorable domain name.

21. Decide where you
will post your blog
http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/choosing-a-
blogging-platform-quick-reference

22. How will you decide what to
write about?
1. Creative solutions
2. Courage to be innovative
3. Entertainment and encouragement
4. Understanding for complex issues
http://amylynnandrews.com/how-to-decide-what-to-blog-
about/

23. Why do YOU read blogs?
PollEv.com/harrisonmcco196

24. Set up a schedule and write
whether you think you have
an audience or not.

25. Some blogs I’m reading:
http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
http://www.edudemic.com/
https://jonharper70.wordpress.com/
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/
http://www.edutopia.org/blogs
http://catlintucker.com/
http://www.teachercast.net/
http://starrsackstein.com/
http://mrkempnz.com/
http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/
https://shelleywright.wordpress.com/
http://www.cyclesoflearning.com/

26. PowerPoint Template
Courtesy of
www.presentationmagazine.com

27. Dr. David Sparks
Science-focused education blogger
Dr. Sparks
maintains several
blogs.
He blogs both
personally and
professionally.

28. End-of-Webinar Poll
• Would you consider starting a blog of your
own?
• Yes
• No
Feel free to type comments in the chat window.

29. What do you think?
type in the chat window!
• What information stood out to you from the presentation?
• What questions do you have?
• “I hope to explore.…”
• “I learned….”
• “ I want to try….”
• “I want to know….”

30. Graduate Program in Literacy
Studies
• http://www.utcoursesonline.org/programs/progra
minfo/med/curriculumandinstruction/index.html
• Email Dr. Kathleen Tice about Literacy Studies:
ktice@uta.edu
• Our other Master’s programs in Curriculum and
Instruction:
https://www.uta.edu/coed/gradadvising/programs
/curricandinstruct/index.php

31. UT Arlington
Master’s in Mind, Brain, and Education
Our work at the SW Center for Mind, Brain and Education seeks to advance the quality of teaching based upon
insights gained from the cognitive and neural sciences as well as contribute to research in this new and
evolving field.
We build collaborative research relationships with schools, develop research trajectories that profit from the
strengths of our faculty and students and maintain a working and teaching laboratory for researchers and
graduate students.
1. Courses include:
Neuroscience of typical and atypical language development
Neuroscience of typical and atypical mathematical reasoning
Complex dynamic systems
Research design
EEG research methodology
2. Individual work:
Research-based capstone project
encouraged - Conference presentations
encouraged - Publishing in peer-reviewed journals

32. For more information on the
Mind, Brain, and Education
Master’s degree, please
contact Dr. Marc Schwartz
schwarma@uta.edu