3. Put simply by the people at Commoncraft:
Blogs in plain English
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5. Rachel Boyd, a teacher from Nelson, NZ,
sums it up in this video
Why let our students blog?
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7. • Students from our classes
• Students from our classes
• Parents & family members
• Students’ extended family
• Colleagues at school
• Students from other schools
• Educators from around the globe
8. • Sharing news & events
• Sharing work
• Students’ ideas/opinions
• Accessing information, e.g. spelling lists,
homework
• Linking to other student/class blogs
• Links for projects via our diigo site
• Feedback on what’s happening at school
• Parent information
• Sharing/reviewing tools
9. • Authentic audience
• Familiar form of communication
• Student voice
• Multimedia capabilities – sharing of digital
work
• Global communication –collaborative work
with other classes in Australia & overseas,
comments from all over world, networking
with classes in NZ, UK & USA
• Feedback from others
10. • New skills
• Consider new ways of doing things, e.g.
podcasts, videos, web2.0 tools - Picturetrail,
slideshare, voicethread, audioboo
• Contact with other educators, both in
Australia & overseas
• Opportunity for shared, collaborative
learning experiences with others
• Student engagement
11. • Not blocked in schools, unlike some others
• Easy to use
• App available
• Ability to moderate comments
• Registering students or other users at different
levels – contributor, author, editor, administrator
• Ease of uploading files, media etc
• Edublogs forum
• Free, but with - no ads & more facilities when you
become a supporter – small annual fee & bulk
upgrades very reasonable
• The edublogger – great support & info
12. • Blocked in schools - but can be easily
unblocked
• Easy to use
• Multiple templates
• Ability to moderate comments
• Multiple contributors
• Ease of uploading files, media etc
• Automatic tags and search engines
• FREE!
13. • Easy to use
• App available for both Apple & Android
• Multiple templates
• Ability to moderate comments
• Multiple contributors
• Ease of uploading files, media etc
• Automatic tags and search engines
• FREE!
14. • Moderation of comments to avoid
inappropriate content
• Student anonymity & privacy
• Class blog with student posts or individual
blogs?
• Blogging is about reading as well as writing –
which blogs will you add to your blogroll?
• Consider subscribing to a blog reader for
updates on favourite blogs, e.g Google
Reader, feedly, iGoogle
• Comments – relevant & appropriate
15. • Interviewing parents about a particular topic
– can be written report or recorded as mp3
• PMI about school or a school event – can
use wallwisher or linoit
• Recounts of activities, e.g. buddy classes
• Reflections on learning
• Videos of talks, drama, assemblies, visitors
• Podcasts
• Book reviews
16. Great opportunity to connect & network
with others when new to blogging
Quadblogging set up and managed by
David Mitchell in UK
17. • Clairvaux Connects
• Room 6 Cyberkids – Year 3
• Little Voices Little Scholars – Year 2
• Room 2 All Stars – Reception & Year 1
• Mr Webb (NZ)
• Mr C's Class (USA)
• Allstars – Library
• Room 102 – 1st grade
• Room 6 St Mary’s (NZ)
• 4KM & 4KJ
18. • What Ed Said
• Blogging through the Fourth Dimension
• Spencer’s Scratch Pad
• For the love of learning
• The Wejr Board
• On an e-journey with Generation Y
• Cool Tools for 21st century learning
• The Principal of Change
• A view from the middle
• Life is not a race to be finished first
19. • Clustrmaps – see where your visitors are coming
from
• Widgetbox – lots of widgets, e.g. clocks, games
• Counters – how many visitors are you getting?
• Vokis – record a welcome message for your
visitors
• Avatars – use an avatar instead of a photo – great
for students to have identity but stay anonymous
• More avatars
20. • Promote your blog
• Keep it up to date
• The blogging community
• Comments work both ways!
• Start simple
• Pam Thompson @pam_thompson
thompsonpam@gmail.com
• Jarrod Lamshed @jlamshed
jglamshed@gmail.com
