I've enjoyed the process of watching you come to grips with blogging over the last 8 weeks or so, and get your thoughts online. Some of the posts have been very interesting to read, and it has always been good to go into class with your perspectives on the set reading at the front of my mind: that has certainly made the teaching process a lot easier for me.
I'm curious to know what you think makes a good blog. (Do any of you read any of the teaching blogs out there?) Based on your experience of reading your classmates blogs, what are the things that most grab your attention? Is it writing style, content, the interactions and commenting on the site, presentation or a mixture of all of the above?
One way that you can try to measure the 'impact' of your blog is by searching it on Technorati. Technorati is a web-based service that indexes blogs, and currently has over 100 million blogs indexed world wide. Technorati can tell you how many blogs are linking to your blog, and records this as the 'authority' of your blog. According to Will Richardson (in his book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts) a blog that has an authority of 100 or more can be generally regarded as well-accepted by its community of readers. But that's not to say that a blog with an authority of less than 100 can't be a good blog.
So getting back to the original question, what do you think makes a good blog post? You might like to have a look at some of the blogs that I read, for ideas. I'll put them in a blog roll, in the links column.
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I think a good blog should include the following elements, such as the style, the layout. Yet, the most important thing is the content. Why do we want to read boring stuff?
I don't know whether the other classmates enjoy reading blogs. But I do. There is one famous blogger who has over ten thousand people browsing their blog. The blog is around a family with Mama, Dada, Meimei and Didi. People enjoy reading their blogs not only because of the cute children, but the love in the family. That's why so many people visit their blog everyday and that's why they publish a book based on their blogs. How amazing that is!!!
enjoy reading some classmates' blogs since these blogs include some beautiful photos, experience sharing, interesting texts, etc.
Sometimes I read our classmates' blogs, our classmates tell us about their students, their teaching life, their happy or unhappy, etc. I feel touching.
Have you got a link for that blog Dora? (even if it's not in English I can still get someone to translate). Perhaps if you keep blogging you'll have a book of your own in a little while?! (It's not that uncommon)
Fanny - I've also found the additional contact through the blogs to be a very positive and informative experience...
The link of this blog: http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/mami-mama
It's really relaxing to read the homepage!
Thanks for the link. It seems to be a very active community at this site - those kids are so cute!
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