30 Days to Being a Better Blogger Teach42s Blogging Challenge

Steve Dembo, aka Teach42, is the Online Community Manager for the Discovery Educator Network (check out their terrific resources for educators at DEN), and the former Director of Technology at the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School in Chicago, IL.

Steve recently proposed a challenge to bloggers new and veteran who are seeking opportunities to freshen up their blogging skills and cross-pollinate new ideas: 30 Days to Being A Better Blogger. He developed a series of 30 activities and ideas, as well as tips, techniques, and encouragement which he cross-posted on his blog and his wiki.

The challenge originated in November, but participants are encouraged to drop in anytime and work according to their own time frame. In addition to posting on his blog and wiki, Steve sent daily updates to his feed on Twitter.

Planning on jumping in? Join the 30 Days community by tagging your posts so that others can find them: 30D2BBB. (More about tagging can be found here)

There has been a growing trend in self-paced online learning opportunities with community components such as this one, on a variety of topics. What would a community challenge look like in your organization or community? Is this a model that might engage members in different ways? How would it extend your notion of community and how to be a member? What would it take to experiment with this? Imagine the possibilities!

Learn More:

Blogs in Plain English: Common Craft Show – Video
How to Create A Blog with Blogger: Video Tutuorial
See other video tutorials in this series by BloggerHelp.
Why Start a Blog and 25 Tips to Make it Work
from Conversation Agent
Not Just for Educators:

The Edublogger: Tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web 2.0 technologies and edublogs
Using Blogs to Promote Authentic Learning in the Classroom from Transitioning to Web2.0

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