Welcome to Rural Matters
Welcome to Rural Matters blog, sponsored by the Rural School and Community Trust.
Rural Matters will regularly post information and resources, perspective and comment, on issues related to rural education and small schools.
A blog is an interactive web site. That means that anyone with computer access can participate in and contribute to Rural Matters. We want to hear from you, so we've provided several easy and fun options you can use to share your news and perspectives on rural schools and communities.
COMMENTS. Anyone can add comments to any post. You can also read the comments others have made. Simply click the word "comments" under a post that interests you. You'll see the comments others have posted. Scroll to the bottom for easy instructions on how to post a comment. Note: you do not have to register to post a comment.
GUEST AUTHOR. A second way to participate in Rural Matters is by posting a blog entry. Click on the button "Apply to Post a Blog as a Guest Author" in the right column of the MAIN Rural Matters page.
Rural Matters has a number of additional useful and easy-to-use features.
TOPICAL CATEGORIES/ARCHIVES. Rural Matters archives all posts in topical categories. That will make it easier for you to follow topics that are of particular interest to you. In addition, all posts are also archived chronologically by month.
RESOURCE PAGES. These pages provide useful links to studies, web sites, and other resources related to particular themes. They are regularly updated.
PERMALINKS. Every post on Rural Matters has it's own unique url--that's the web address. To find the permalink for any post, just click the work "permalink" under the post. This allows you to bookmark or create other kinds of links to specific posts.
BLOG@ruraledu.org. Share your questions or make suggestions via email to blog@ruraledu.org. This is an email link and your suggestions or questions will not show up on Rural Matters.
EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS. If you'd like to get a notification in your email in-box when new posts appear on Rural Matters, just click on "notifications" and follow the simple instructions.
RSS FEEDS. RSS Feeds are another easy way to keep up with activities and posts on Rural Matters. A "feed reader" is an easy-to-use program that grabs and stores new blog posts for blogs for which you’ve subscribed. You don’t have to visit each blog separately, your inbox does not get cluttered, you can choose only the Rural Matters blog topics that interest you, and you can open your feed reader when it’s convenient for you.
For more information on RSS feeds and for step-by-step instructions for subscribing to an RSS feed for Rural Matters, visit About RSS. For general information about RSS feeds, click on [What is RSS?] on the right side bar of the main Rural Matters page. To sign up for RSS feeds, click the "Subscribe to this blog's feed" button on the right side bar, ignore the HTML code in the link, and put the url from the address bar into your feed reader.
LINKS. In the right column of Rural Matters, you'll find links to websites and other blogs. If you have suggestions for links that should be listed on Rural Matters, email the link and the organization to BLOG@ruraledu.org. We won't guarantee that we'll post your links, but we do want to hear about them.
TRACKBACKS. TrackBacks show where other bloga have linked to specific posts in Rural Matters.