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Share Your Tips On Writing ‘About Pages’ For Class Blogs!

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Image of class blogOh NO……forget class blogs :oops: ! Really need YOUR help to make amends to all class blogs!

What Happened!

My Have You Set Up Your About Page? post provided tips on About pages for student and adult bloggers but totally forgot about Class blogs.

Wouldn’t have realised the neglect without Angela Kulikowski‘s comment:

“One challenge I have had is writing an About page for my class blog. I don’t really feel that it should be about me since the blog is representative of my students and how they think. On the other hand, perhaps I should include some things about myself as a teacher and my teaching philosophy.”

The Help Required!

Please share your thoughts on what to write on an “About page” for a CLASS blogs as opposed to an individual blog in terms of:

  • What should/shouldn’t be included?
  • How much information should you provide about the teacher and their teaching philosophies?
  • Links to Class blogs ‘About Pages’ to check out?

Angela — asked also if you could check out her Class ‘About Page‘ and leave a comment with any recommended changes.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Take the time to check out the ‘about page’ on Grade 5/NT class blog — definitely worth it! Thanks Nathan Toft for sharing the link!

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Have You Set Up Your About Page?

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Image of how to find the about pageHave you set up your About page? Or taken the time to review what you’ve written on this page?

NO! Well make this a priority because your About page is extremely important to new readers. It’s where readers find out more about you and your blog. Readers often use it to decide whether to bother subscribing to a blog.

Updating Your About Page

When you set up a new Edublogs blog it automatically comes set up with an about page. Readers access this page by clicking on About in the page links at the top of your theme or in the link in your sidebar.

The idea is you change the default text on this about page by inserting your own information.

Image of the default about page

You do this in your dashboard by clicking on Manage > Pages.  Now click on the link to your About page.

Image of Editing About page

Now it is just a case of replacing the default text on the about page with your own text, images etc.

Image of editing about page text

What To Write On An About Page

Your about page is all about letting people know who are you, what’s your interests and what you write about.

Writing a good ‘About Page’ is hard. Start with telling people more about yourself, people are more likely to engage with your site if they can relate to you as an individual. Then tell them about your blog. Not too long, not too short, include photos that help readers relate to you as a person.   Check out how Darren Rowse (Problogger) achieve this.

For class blogs – check out Tips On Writing ‘About Pages’ For Class Blogs!

PLEASE NOTE:

If you are a school student you need to think carefully about:

  1. What to say or not say -  read Miss Wyatt’s post and if in doubt check with your teacher or maybe ask Miss Wyatt!
  2. Any Photos you use – It’s still possible to include photos that help people relate to you as a person without using your own photo.  Check out Meghna’s About page to see how she does this!!!

FINAL THOUGHTS

This post was inspired by the Week 1 task for the Student Blogging Competition because new bloggers often overlook the importance of their About page.

Take the time to review what you’ve written on your about page.  Does it clearly highlight to readers:

  1. Who are you?
  2. What are your interests?
  3. What you’re about?
  4. What you write about?

Why not write a post to ask your readers what they think about your about page?  What they like? What changes they’d recommend?

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