2. Title of my workshop Speaker’s Name Blogs Lyndsay Buckingham
3. What do you know? I have my own blog, either for personal or professional use. I have RSS feeds of my favorite blogs, or visit some blogs faithfully. I’ve visited some blogs occasionally, for personal or professional use. I know nothing about blogs!
First. What level do they teach? Do their students enjoy using technology? Next, do they enjoy using technology? What do they know about blogs? 4 corners
Discussion on possible uses of blogs, why they could be motivating, what key competences do they work? Processing info/use of ICT, linguistic competence, social skills/citizenship, cultural/aritistic competence, learning to learn, autonomy/personal initiative
Link in 1st image to blogger. Blogger is the easiest to use, comes in many languages, free.
Should you create a class blog or individual student blogs? It depends on your objectives. Is your project/activity more independent or cooperative?
If privacy is important for your students, be careful with the settings of your blog. You can choose to add your students as readers or authors. Authors can post, readers can read and comment. Think about also adding parents as readers, maybe by request. For user profiles, encourage them to make up user names (you can keep a list of who’s who) and/or keep their profile private.
Maintenance of your blog, following other blogs (helpful if your students have blogs). Also on iGoogle you can have RSS feed to your favorite blogs (professional development, personal interest, etc.)
Tabs for editing html, or for simple composing. Compose – fonts, colors, etc. Publish! Edit posts – edit past posts Edit pages – in free version you can have up to 10 pages Comment moderation – depends on your settings. You can set to only publish the comments you approve, or automatically publish comments. You can also be alerted by new comments – by email. You can even send updates to more than one email address.
You can add images from your files, or from the internet Same with videos. To add a video from youtube, use the embedding code from the website, and add it to your post (be sure to choose “edit html”)
Add page elements to appear to the side of your blog, above or below. Select “add gadget” and choose from options, or HTML/Java Script to add a piece of code, such as for delicious. Add a calendar, RSS – news (CNN, Yahoo!, etc.) – search RSS news in Google. Add your delicious tags to share bookmarks.
Brainstorm with participants – what can you do? What types of activities? Anything you do now that could be expanded? Do a chain writing with participants, then demonstrate how that could be done online
What can the teacher do with the blog? Interact with students, share ideas, give HW, etc Parents – they see what their children study, can encourage them, involves them Allow students to interact bt themselves, with other classes, etc.
KC – linguistic comp, interaction w phys world?, ICT, social skills/citizenship, cultural/artistic?, learn to learn, autonomy
