Getting Back to Previous Posts
OK so the first thing you need to know is how to get back to your first post and do any editing you might want. Look at the tool bar on the left hand side. Open the drop down for Posts and then click on All Posts. This will show any posts you have created. Simply click on the post and you can start editing. If you want to create a new post click on add new. The same process as from the previous blog.
Like everything the more you use it the better you get with it. Take Microsoft word for example I recently updated from the version I was using. At first I found it really difficult to find my way around and perform the functions I needed. Now I am a lot more capable and can appreciate some of the new features. To get me to this stage took a while and it is exactly the same with WordPress, by using it, playing with it seeing what the different buttons do I am gradually becoming much more competent. Although there is still a long way to go……
Anyway here some ideas that I have heard about or seen blogs used for.
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Poetry blog
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Homework blog
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Classroom Blogs
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Guided Writing Blogs
100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups
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Thought of the week
Six reasons why kids should know how to blog
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Celebration blog
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Show and tell
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Collaboration with other schools/teachers/students on shared blogs.
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Reflective Blogs
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Resource blogs podcasts of your kids doing the Thrass chant etc…
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Integrating Technology
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Art blog
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News letter blogs
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PE Blog
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Generic Teaching Blogs
*****Education Blog Awards*****
*****Creative School Blogs*****
100 Seriously Cool Classroom Blogs for Teaching Ideas & Inspiration
64 Interesting Ideas for School Blogs
Other Education Blogs from Word Press
A Teacher Field Guide To Parents
If you have any more great ideas please put them in the comment boxes. I would love to know what else is out there. I suppose now is the time for us all to start creating and having a go at putting something out there. Don’t worry if you are at all like me the first time was by far the hardest. I look forward to seeing what gets created.
Term of The Week
Widget : A widget is basically a piece of web text that some clever designer has written. This pre made text can then be put into your blog or web page. The map at the top of this page is an example of a widget so is the subscribe button. There are loads and loads of different widgets out there that do a multitude of things.
ictadam 
Many thanks for using 100WCGU as an example!
Nice post (again!). Just a few suggestions about your blog links:
1) It might be good to link the blog examples to the categories of blogs you list.
2) Rather than putting in the actual URLs of the blogs, why not just link the URLs to the names of the blogs?
3) One of your blog URLs is actually the address for a link from Twitter – you can remove the last part of the URL, which refers to Twitter.
Hi Mark,
Some great ideas and appropriate changes made. Can you explain point one a little more I don’t think I fully understand what you mean.
You list blog uses (poetry blog, homework blog, etc), then give a separate list of example blogs. Why not integrate the two lists, so that you place examples next to the relevant uses?
Another good idea that way I can just cut and paste onto next blog or create a separate page with the resources on. Thanks Mark
Thank you for using outstandingteaching as an example!
This is pretty resourceful. Never really looked at blogs so closely. thanks
Hi Sara, I am still very much learning myself but the more I see what’s out there the more impressed I am. Hopefully these blogs will prove useful to teachers who are keen to start blogging but didn’t know where to begin.