No such mandate exists in blogging. You can iterate, experiment, and even invite others to help you explore a topic more. It is okay if a post is incomplete.
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A Term on my Class Blog
I’ve now been running blogs with & for my classes since 2005. I still find them a really useful tool for teaching and learning. The focus and content has changed continually over the years.
Back in the noughties I was keen on having my class blog kept up by pupils (archive.org link).
I find this harder to organise now, not sure if it is my age, the demands of the curriculum or something else. Pupils in my class now post to their e-Portfolios1 and add pieces of work to the class blog which I collate into posts. I also pinch quotes from their e-portfolios for the class blog2.
Like my own blog here I still find my class blog a great resource to remember & review. Of course it is a curated view. Much depends on what I am finding most interesting at the time. I both enjoy reading back and use it as a tool when asked for feedback or a record of some sort.
I was somewhat cheered up by Matt Mullenweg’s birthday. Sometimes it feels like WordPress is focused on content management. Matt’s post show that blogging is still loved.
While content management is a main focus of Glow Blogs my love is blogging. I still think we are only scratching the surface of the use of WordPress in school3.
Posts Last Term (Oct 2023 – Dec 2023 on my class blog )
- Autumn Haiku
- HALLOWEEN MAGIC
- Banton Mill
- Arcade Fun
- Steady Hands Stage 1
- New Podcast out BBP episode 8
- Outdoor Learning Day
- Steady Hands Stage 2
- ScribbleBots
- Christmas Challenge
- Glow Blogs – WordPress blogs for Scottish Education ↩
- example of quote collection↩
- H5P for example ↩
Bookmarked Building a Block-Based Microblog by .
IndieBlocks, which I am using to post this, is an alternative to the Post Kinds plugin that works with the block editor instead of classic.
I am still using mostly using classic on this blog as it seems the right tool for the job. But WordPress’s future seems to be blocks. I like the ui for bookmarks etc in IndieBlogs and guess I can ignore most of the blocks editor features.
I am a bit conflicted as to how switching approaches would work. For example Post Kinds adds an extra taxonomy for different kinds of post, IndieBlocks uses custom post types. I’ve got 7 years of post kinds posts here. I’ve also some styles based on the kinds.
I lean towards taxonomies over custom posts. This probably due to an over enthusiastic use of custom post kinds a few years back.
I think I prefer the incorporation of the link, author & quote into the main entry in IndieBlocks.
Good to have choices I guess 😉
Likes IndieBlocks 0.6.2 Released by .
I’ve been keeping half an eye on this. I’m not fully onboard with blocks yet and don’t really know how this will fit with the post kinds plug-in I usually use.
2022 in titles, made with wordcloud cli.
2022 Books
According to my Books page, I’ve read 46 books this year. I started adding star ratings as tags so can give a list of 5 star books (weight by my enjoyment ) using the lovely display posts plugin.
- Read seven steeples 21/11/2022
- Read: Rose Nicolson by Andrew Greig 09/10/2022
- Read: The Glass Hotel 11/09/2022
- Read: Small Things Like These 09/09/2022
- Read: The family Chao 07/08/2022
- Read: Islands of Abandonment 04/07/2022
- Read: Blank Pages 22/04/2022
- Read: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead 06/02/2022
- Read: O Caledonia 07/01/2022
Hi Joe,
Another trio of fascinating links. podviaznikov.com took me to montaigne.io which the site is made with. Montaigne is a simple tool that allows you to publish any type of website from Apple Notes , the docs are not yet complete but I certainly want to keep an eye on.
Thanks!
MarsEdit and IndieWeb Replies
My On this Day page leads me to think about webmentions. I’ve also been listening to
which reminds me of MarsEdit.Mar’s edit has custom formatting macros so I am testing one that add the u-in-reply-to class to links:
.Hopefully this is the right way to format a macro.
https://collect.readwriterespond.com/triple-entry-blogging/
Interesting, the rather challanging hypothes.is comments were interesting too.
My blog was born on 5th February 2005, which makes it 17 years old today. I continue to find blogging valuable, both the process and the concept. I also read old posts most days which may well be the best thing about it.