SETT Scottish Learning Festival starts today in Glasgow. This is bound to be a rich learning and sharing experience, especially as Scotland has become home to some of the most prolific and influential edubloggers of the Internet. I suspect that we will see a lot coming out of that conference. It will surely shine.
For those bloggers in the heather, who are not as practiced as Ewan, David, and John, it is essential that you tag your blog entries so that they can be captured by blog readers who are aggregating SETT blogs. There are a number of ways to do this, but one fullproof way is to simply code the tags directly into your blog entry.
Hitchhikr has a tag generating tool that is linked to any and all of the conferences that have been registered, including the SETT Scottish Learning Festival.
Simply load the page.
- The suggested tags for the conference are already in the first text box (a). You can add additional ones, such as weinberger for David Weinberger’s keynote. Make sure that the tags you add are seperated by spaces.
- Then, if you have added any additional tags, click the [Submit] button.
- Copy the html code that is in the larger textbox (b).
- It is important that your blog editing page is set to accept HTML. There should be a button that says [HTML] or it may say [Source]. When you click it you should see your blog text with some codes that may look like this — <a href=”http:….
- Paste the code at the bottom of the page.
- Finally, after you have submitted your blog, type or paste the URL of your blog in the third textbox (c), and click [Ping!]. This notifies Technorati (a major blogging search engine) that you blog has been submitted and that it should add it to its list of blogs to be indexed. When it has been indexed (perhaps a few minutes later or a few hours), it will be accessible to conference readers through their aggregators and through Hitchhikr.
Have a fantastic conference! We’ll be watching and listening.
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