Who Reads Your Blog or Website?

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If you have taken the time to post to a blog or website, you likely hope that parents and students are reading it.  Are they?

If you use the blog feature of your Google Site or Blogger, you can notify parents/students and ask them to subscribe.  Here is a letter you can send home (make a copy of this in your Google Drive so that you can edit and insert your own information).  If parents send this back and want you to subscribe them, go to your blog, click "Subscribe" and type in their email address.  They will receive a confirmation email asking whether they want to subscribe.

Before doing this, you may want to send those parents an email letting them know that they should expect a confirmation email from "Feedburner".  This is important because many people will ignore or delete this if they are not expecting it.  Click here for a sample email you could send.

Remember that subscribers are only notified when you create a new post, not when you modify an old one!  Each time you want them to receive information, you need to create a new blog post.

After parents/students have been subscribed for a month or two, consider sending home a survey such as this to find out what kind of reach your blog has.  Make adjustments as needed!

Examples of teachers in our district using the blog feature on Google Sites (these are just a sampling - there are many more!):

Steve Fuchs

Tami Kolemainen

Eric Meyer

Amy Voigt

Examples of teachers in our district using Blogger (then automatically publishing it to their Google Site):

Stacie Schneider - see how the blog looks and how it looks embedded into Google Sites

Amy Kosloski - On Blogger and Google Sites

Tanya Malwitz - On Blogger and Google Sites

Adam Ronnenberg - On Blogger and Google Sites

For an exhaustive list of who is blogging at District 881, click here.