- What did you learn? I learned how to utilize some of the blogger options I had never heard of and/or played with before. I have used blogger, but I have mainly used edublogs for the class blog I set up last summer. So the mail-to-blogger was pretty interesting for me, as I had trouble getting student participation on the blog last year. I love the "remove next button" video where I learned how to remove the google navigation bar. So lots of new fun stuff to play with in Week 1.
- How will you use what you have learned? Well, I already have started using what I learned, but I need to start considering Blogger for the class blog.
- How did you feel about this information? I feel confident that I will utilize all the activities from Week 1, for both my class and personal blogs.
- Do you feel that comment moderation is a benefit or a detriment? Why? Both possibly. It is obviously a benefit to avoid spam and innappropriate comments, but notifications fill up mailboxes and moderation time takes away from spontaneous and/or real-time chatter.
- Who did you ask to try the Mail-to-Blogger feature? Did it work? Would you use this with your students? colleagues? I did it myself but hopefully I try to utilize it with some classmates for guest blogging. I really like the idea and I think there are lots of ways to utilize it in the classroom. They love Youtube, and this might be a way for them to contribute class content easily: copy and paste Youtube embed code into an email. Also, students could email answers to test reviews and you could pick a 100% to be a post before the test. Student work is on display... digitally.
- What do you not want to forget about this week's information? Not to lurk...
- What questions do you still have about blog settings and templates? None right now.
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