Useful Blogs-people with nice ideas!

Dear everyone,

 this is my first post. I want to present you some blogs which have been inspiring to me and quite helpful at this early stage of creating my blog. It is a good idea to explore these if you are also interesting in creating your own blog.
                                                 

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• Larry Ferlazzo's blog 
• Nik Peachey's blog
• Ozge Karaoglu's blog
• Vicky Loras's blog

I find Nik Peachey's blog quite useful. It was easy for me to navigate through his blog even though I am inexperienced in handling with blogs. His blog's organization and layout is simple and clear. Here are some of the most important features which I believe that have made his blog efficient. 

1. Blog Archive: It is a default gadget which enables us to give date stamp to each post we make so that we can use that we can organize our entries according to dates.
2. Labels: It is not a default gadget, we have to add it on our own. It allows us to search the blog for specific content and will bring up all the posts that any time have being made and are linked to that particular label, content. It enables easier and more dynamic searches for content on blogs.
3. Pages: One of the latest features of blogs which makes us feel that blogs are more like websites. Nik's blog is consisted of the "Home" page located at the top tab where we can find the posts he makes and other pages again at the top tab like "More articles" and "About Me"which are more fixed and are changed less frequently. So, it is easy to search for content and distinguish his posts from other kind of information. 

Apart from the above technicalities, you can also find interesting web tools to use in your classrooms and get informed about ICT matters. For me Nik's blog was very enlightening, I hope you will also find it useful. So, if you have not visited his blog yet, it is time to give it a try! What do you think?

Finally, for those of you who want to gain more details of how to construct a blog, have a look at Russell Stannard's teacher training videos website and in particular at his Blogger- start your own blog or get your students blogging video. Enjoy!