Using ScotsEdublogs
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Using ScotsEdublogs: The Basics
On the simplest level just visit the home page ScotEduBlogs News and read the more recent posts by Scots Educators. This will save you a lot of time if you visit a lot of Scots Edu Blogs.
Or you can subscribe to the front page RSS Feed with your feed reader. You can use an online feed reader like Bloglines or an offline one such as Vienna (mac, search google or read some blogs to find more RSS readers.)
The next stage would be to read a feed of a particular set of blogs, on the Blogs page you would click on tags until you had a list you were interested in, for example primary, teachers and blogging. You can then subscribe to the RSS feed linked. Again this will keep you up-to-date with many blogs without having to visit them all .
Andrew Brown has produced a great screencast What is ScotEduBlogs
Further Reading:
Using a feed from ScotsEdublogs on your blog
You can take a RSS feed from ScotsEduBlogs and display it on your own webpage.
With a wordpress blog this is very easy:
Copy the rss feed from SEB, you can right click and copy link on any of the orange rss buttons.
You go to the Presentation tab of the Wordpress managment system and click on Sidebar Widgets.
Then drag a RSS widget to your sidebar and edit it:
Close the edit box and you should now have a list of the latest posts in your sidebar:
Other blogs systems have there own methods of including feeds.
For example in Pivot which I use you just need to include:
[[rss:http://www.scotedublogs.org.uk/blogs/rss:15]]
in your blog template. You can see a list of posts from the scotsEduBlogs front page on My Blog
Other Uses
You can follow posts on twitter via the ScotEduBlogs twitter feed
