Welcome to students of the course blog Making Secondary Mathematics Meaningful at OISE/UT in the department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning. (And welcome guest bloggers, too!)
For those who have never tried it, blogging is pretty easy and intuitive once you get started. You’ll need to know how to:
1. create your own posts
2. modify your own posts
3. comment on other people’s posts
4. read other people’s posts
5. keep track of comments – on your own posts, and when you comment on other people
Students, please experiment during the first week of the semester to try out these different functions. Try writing a first blog post to introduce yourself to all of us, and then make a small change by editing it. Also, feel free to comment on this post here to try out the comment function. For tips on writing compelling blog posts, see Sue Waters’ post on theedublogger newsletter.
A word about privacy: the blog is readable by *anyone* who has the web address, but it is not indexed in search engines. The reason I set the privacy this way is so that you can set up an rss feed to keep track of posts and comments. If you are uncomfortable having public information displayed here, you should use a different google account than usual, or make sure that your displayed username does not reveal any information you would prefer to keep private.
I think that’s all that I can think of for now… please ask any questions below, or send me an email at my oise email address.
Looking forward to working together this year!
Indigo
