You can receive new teacher blog posts by e-mail! Using a free service like Feed my Inbox, you can get teacher updates delivered to your inbox. First, grab the RSS feed link from a teacher blog. (Hint: add /feed after the teacher's blog URL.) Then, paste/type this into the form at Feed my Inbox. Add your e-mail address, and voila! Be sure to respond to their confirmation e-mail. You can repeat this for multiple teachers. Now, everytime a teacher updates their blog, you'll get an e-mail with the update.
As an example, the link to Dr. Underwood's blog would look like this:
http://blogs.glnd.k12.va.us/teachers/lunderwood/feed
Simply change the red part (above) for the teacher name for your student.
School Teacher Lists
If you are new to blogging, there’s some new vocabulary that will help you make the most of the experience of reading and following blogs.
Individual blog entries, called posts, are created each time someone sits down to write something new in their blog. When you visit a blog, it’s presented in reverse chronological order, with the newest posts at the top of the page.
Metadata is the information located around each post that provides information about it: what categories it has been placed in for organization, which keyword tags were assigned for facilitating searches, what time the post was published, and how many people have commented on the individual post. The date and time displayed has a name too, a timestamp.
A blogroll is a list of other blogs (or websites) that the blog author likes to visit. These could be other educational websites, or the blogs of colleagues here in Goochland.
A trackback is a way to comment on a blog post through your own blog post. Let’s say I want to respond to something in another person’s blog… I can write my own blog post, include a link to the post I read, and a link back to my own post is listed along with comments. Blogs really are extended conversations.
The special link required to create trackbacks is called a permalink. These point not to a person’s blog, but to a specific post within the blog.
Our blogs also contain pages. These are created and maintained with blogging software, but are more static. Many teachers have an “about” page to tell you more about getting in touch with them, what they teach, and any other details they wish to share.
Last, blogs contain a mechanism called newsfeeds. These feeds can be plugged into browsers and specialized programs called newsfeed readers to track changes made to blogs you like to read. This way, you save yourself the bother of going back to revisit to check for updates. We like Google Reader! Many of our blogs have feeds for both blog posts and comments.
About the Weblogs
Our blogs are managed by John Hendron, division webmaster using WordPress.
Publication of all content including images, video, and comments from visitors falls under the umbrella of our acceptable use policy (AUP). This document provides guidelines for teachers, but also covers appropriate use for students. We will exercise our right to not post comments or honor trackbacks that violate the standards set forth in the AUP.
Password Protected Posts
From time to time, teachers may choose to password-protect a post on their blog. This is done to limit the audience to the information that was posted. When we do this, we typically use an easy-to-remember word that is given to students so they can access the information on this post. Password-protected posts may also be used to differentiate assignments for different student groups.
