Today I learned some more stuff about blogging.
When you register your blog, your blog gets more recognition because I think it gets pined and crawled more. I'm not interested in registering my blog because I don't necessarily want just anyone reading it. I'm not wanting to sell anything or garner recognition. Eventually, after I finish the "23 Things" course, I want my blog to be for my family. I'll just give them my blog address.
I found out that ping is a little program that is sent out to other web sites and the other web sites send back an answer; sort of like radar sends out a signal and it's bounced back to the sender. A time lapse is calculated depending on how far away the other computer is. I'm not sure why this is important.
A ping is tied in some way with a blog crawler. When Google or some other entity crawls your blog, it is another program looking for new information that has been recently posted. Key words are important to the crawlers because the information extracted is put in an index. When someone is searching for a particular topic, if one of your keywords has been indexed, your blog may come up on the list for the searcher to see. If you want your blog to be very visible, blog something important every day.
Well, that's what I learned today and I hope that it's somewhat correct.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
"23 Things and Learning 2.0 – Discover…Explore…Share
I am taking an on-line class called "Learning web 2.0 skills". It's purpose is stated as follows: "Listed below are “23 Things” (or small exercises) that you can do as a “possible” way to enhance your skills with Family History and/or Genealogy on any level. The exercises will expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0 technology."
The first thing that was suggested in the "23 Things" e-learning project was to " read about “23 things” by putting that phrase into a search engine". I read several articles about e-learning. One of the first things I learned was that I didn't know what web 2.0 was. I asked a friend and mentor about it and she led me on a self-discovery expedition and also gave me her understanding of the web 1.0 vs. web 2.0 concept She pointed me to several on-line articles and printed a table from one of them that showed the difference between web 1.0 and web 2.0.
Now, here I am at the 3rd activity in "23 Things". I've signed up with Google's Blogger and started a blog. We are encouraged to comment on the things we learn as we progress through the "23 Things" project. I learned that setting up a blogger account was easy enough. The hard part was reading all the terms, conditions, privacy and security statements and etc. involved with setting up the Google account, which I had to have before I could set up the Blogger account. OK! So it didn't kill me, But it did exhaust a lot of brain cells.
I also went to a friend's blog, read it, made a comment and set myself up to "follow" her blog. I will be notified when there is activity on her blog, I think. I hope.
Uh, OH! I just read about registering my blog and pinging. I don't know that word "ping". I guess I'll just leave that subject until another day. However, I've made good progress this week by completing 3 "things".
The next thing I did in my exploration of e-learning was to: "Discover a few pointers from lifelong learners and learn how to nuture your own learning process." In this learning phase, I read more on-line articles and decided to take a challenge listed in "the 7 1/2 habits of lifelong learners" to make a learning contract. In my learning contract, I set a goal to complete the "23 Things" project in 23 weeks or less. I set up a chart on which to monitor and report my progress. I also chose a person with/to whom to collaborate and report my progress. (I've yet to ask that person if she will work with me.) I acknowledged, on paper, that I can still learn at my age. The last item on the contract was to sign it so as to make it binding and, thereby, make myself more accountable.
The first thing that was suggested in the "23 Things" e-learning project was to " read about “23 things” by putting that phrase into a search engine". I read several articles about e-learning. One of the first things I learned was that I didn't know what web 2.0 was. I asked a friend and mentor about it and she led me on a self-discovery expedition and also gave me her understanding of the web 1.0 vs. web 2.0 concept She pointed me to several on-line articles and printed a table from one of them that showed the difference between web 1.0 and web 2.0.
"As I see it the first web applications were for information dissemination to a user. Web 2.0 is more for interaction and collaboration on a social basis between a group of users. This is one person's comparison: http://blog.vovici.com/blog/bid/18085/Web-1-0-vs-Web-2-0"
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
One-way Two-way
Authoritarian Democratic
Passive Active
Static Dynamic
Closed Collaborative
"Learning 1.0 is a conventional model of learning. Learning 2.0 includes e-learning or internet-based learning."
Now, here I am at the 3rd activity in "23 Things". I've signed up with Google's Blogger and started a blog. We are encouraged to comment on the things we learn as we progress through the "23 Things" project. I learned that setting up a blogger account was easy enough. The hard part was reading all the terms, conditions, privacy and security statements and etc. involved with setting up the Google account, which I had to have before I could set up the Blogger account. OK! So it didn't kill me, But it did exhaust a lot of brain cells.
I also went to a friend's blog, read it, made a comment and set myself up to "follow" her blog. I will be notified when there is activity on her blog, I think. I hope.
Uh, OH! I just read about registering my blog and pinging. I don't know that word "ping". I guess I'll just leave that subject until another day. However, I've made good progress this week by completing 3 "things".
The next thing I did in my exploration of e-learning was to: "Discover a few pointers from lifelong learners and learn how to nuture your own learning process." In this learning phase, I read more on-line articles and decided to take a challenge listed in "the 7 1/2 habits of lifelong learners" to make a learning contract. In my learning contract, I set a goal to complete the "23 Things" project in 23 weeks or less. I set up a chart on which to monitor and report my progress. I also chose a person with/to whom to collaborate and report my progress. (I've yet to ask that person if she will work with me.) I acknowledged, on paper, that I can still learn at my age. The last item on the contract was to sign it so as to make it binding and, thereby, make myself more accountable.
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