2. What is Digital Communication?
Ribble (2015) states that “Digital communication is the
electronic exchange of information” (p.32).
Digital communication has become easy almost instant access
to communicate globally.
3. Digital Ways of Communication
Cell Phones
Social Networking
E-mail
Skype
Facetime
Chat Rooms Digital Communication. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 June 2016.
4. Workshop Objectives
Participants will understand the value of using blogs to communicate with
parents and involve them in the learning process.
Participants will understand the best practices of using a blog to communicate
with parents and students.
Participants will create a blog to share classroom activities.
5. What is blogging?
A blog is a web based site that contains post and
pages. It is generally updated frequently and is
visited by different people.
6. Blogging for Your Classroom
Students showing off
their reading skills
15. What is included on the workshop blog?
Workshop Information
Instructor Contact Information
Links to EduBlogs Tutorials
Extended Assignment Instructions
Blog Inspiration
If no one has had experience with a blog - start a discussion about how blogs could be used in the classroom
In a few minutes you are going to be asked to comment on a blog I have set up for this workshop. It will ask you to share something fun or exciting that you have done recently in your classroom.
You will type your comment
Prove you are human by typing the letters shown
Type your name
You can use any valid email address
When you have your own blog you may want to use your school email because the email address is visible to other blog viewers.
On this slide I will use the Web Tour tool to show this teacher blog
On this slide I will use the Web Tour tool to show this teacher blog