{"id":6647,"date":"2018-03-13T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T09:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2018-03-20T09:35:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T09:35:48","slug":"blogs-academics-5-great-reasons-get-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2018\/03\/13\/blogs-academics-5-great-reasons-get-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs for academics – 5 great reasons to get involved"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blogs are all around us on the internet and you may sometimes read posts from <\/span>popular news blogs<\/span><\/a> without necessarily thinking of them as blogs or formally subscribing to them. For anyone involved in teaching and\/or learning, however, there is a great deal to gain from engaging with blogs a bit more. This posts offers 5 ways in which blogs can help you as a learner, researcher or teacher.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Read blogs to connect with and keep up with your discipline.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Reading blogs written by other researchers or related to your area of interest, can be a great way of keeping informed about developments in your discipline and connecting to a community of interest. Blog aggregators such as <\/span>Feedly<\/span><\/a> or <\/span>Inoreader<\/span><\/a> allow you to subscribe to many blogs, then see the latest posts in one place, accessible from any of your devices. With a range of different display options and the ability to create categories to organise incoming content, either of these apps will be a great help in keeping up with what is being blogged about in your area of interest. Here is an example of a page in Feedly on an Android phone. You can easily and quickly flip through the headlines until you see something that you want to read. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Feedly on an Android phone<\/p><\/div>\n

Most blogs will have a \u2018comments\u2019 section where you can get involved in discussion around the topic. <\/span><\/p>\n

You can find blogs that interest you in a few ways:<\/span><\/p>\n