It’s good to know a little html :)
Today a colleague of mine, Ann, and I were discussing how to set up a blog with a familiar blogging software included in our district web site solution to discuss best practices in block scheduling with our school faculty. The blogging software is limited in that the dialogue box where you type your post does not offer a special area to title the post. The software offers only the option to title the the blog itself which can have many topics. The post dialogue box does not allow you to format text or add hyperlinks for posts either.
So, we had to fix the look of the blog so that each post was not just separated by a date of post. We wanted each post to have its own title.
To give the post a title we typed a little bit of html code in the dialogue box where we type our post. We typed <b> then typed the title of our post. We typed a <p> to skip a double space or block then typed our actual thoughts.
This resulted in our post having a bolded title, a space, then our posted thoughts.
After our post we added a few links using html. We added the links using html code < a href=”url”>the name of the link</a>.
Here is the actual code we used to tweak the blogging software.
<b>Block Scheduling and Professional Practices</b>
<p>The goal of this <b>post</b> is to create a dialogue amongst our faculty about quality instruction, and expose everyone to <i>professional practices related to teaching in the block.</i> Professional, scholarly articles have been provided. When commenting, tell us what you think of the attached articles as they relate to your own experiences teaching in the block.<p>
<a href=”http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/asobol/files/analysis%20of%20research%20on%20block%20scheduling.pdf”>Article #1</a>
<p>
<a href=”http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/asobol/files/blockscheduling.pdf”>Article #2</a>
The more html code teachers know the more flexibilty they will have in their design when confronted with the limitations of their web page software.:)
Click here Alden HS Faculty Blog to see the actual blog post.
on August 28th, 2007 at 7:34 am
If you teach kids, teachers will follow!
on August 28th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Perhaps, edublogs will work.
on August 28th, 2007 at 7:37 am
What about h1 tags
on August 28th, 2007 at 7:37 am
I guess only bold works.
on August 28th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Thank you Chris for the comments. I will tinker with the tags and see how they work. For some teachers it would be hard for them to find the small comment link in edublogs. We can very soon set up my student blogs with edublogs.:)
on September 4th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
How do I get on the Alden Faculty Blog, or is that strictly for teachers?
Thanks for sharing such good stuff!