Unless your education blog is your sole source of income, spending more than 5-10 minutes analyzing your analytics each week can be unnecessary.  Analytics, or the stats on your blog, will give you an idea of how many people have seen your blog, what they have looked at, and how they got there.  Why is
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How wonderful blogging would be if we simply built our blog and it became an instant success.  The reality is that blogging is work and marketing your blog is just as important as anything else you do.  If your purpose for blogging is simply to connect with your students’ parents, there is no need to
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Today’s Teaching Blog 101 Series article is all about Networking.  Watch the short video below for tips and tricks on how to make the best impression and find teachers with whom to network.  

Have you started your teaching blog yet?  How is it going?  If you are like many new bloggers, you want to get all of the bells and whistles going immediately.  After all, you have probably been spending time perusing some of the education and even non-education blogs on the web to get ideas for what
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Have you ever wondered what makes people come back to a blog?  Is it the platform, the colors, the design, the template, the cutesy characters on the sidebar that draws in thousands of visitors?  The answer is no, it is none of those things.  The number one reason why people return to blogs is because
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Creating a teaching blog is a great way to showcase your students’ work, your love for all-things teaching, and your lesson ideas.  The Teaching Blog 101 series is designed to help you tackle the world of blogging one step at a time.  Last week we discussed choosing a blogging platform and this week deals with
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You have been seeing them pop up all over the Internet.  Teaching blogs are the latest and greatest way for teachers to connect, share ideas, and, for some, earn extra income.  After spending more time than you may care to admit reading and surfing the blogs of fellow educators, you may have decided that now
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