Let’s blog!

1. Students go to the edublogs homepage and apply for a user account

2. Student should select the USERNAME ONLY option. (DO NOT select ‘gimme a blog)
    * Students should use their DET email address

3. An automated message will be sent to the student email account. Students must then open their email and activate the account.

4. Teacher to log in to edublogs and go to the blog dashboard. Click the ‘users’ link

5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and under ‘Add User from Community’ enter the students’ email address.  

* I suggest you assign them author privileges.

6.  The student may now login to your edublog and begin posting

Remember Stu from Term 2 SDD? He and his people have developed a blog which can help us on our journey. I listened to some of the podcasts and learnt that we are on the right track. He has some interesting information regarding what we should be doing and how to keep students safe. The information will help with ensuring we follow DET rules and expectations. I urge you to ‘check in’ with this blog. You can also see what else can be done with blogging as there are great ideas from others too.

http://podcastlane.wordpress.com

 

I hope you all enjoyed the ‘blogging’ session. As you can see we now have many more bloggers on our journey. Here are your responses to the reflection topics, as promised.

3 things you found interesting

· The idea of blogging

· Different things people do on blogs / uses of blogs in education

· Material available through links / teaching resources / sharing

· Could be used easily by students and teachers

· Found lots of educational info that can be used in my lessons

· Fun things available to do with our students

· How interactive sites are!

· The blogging sites / other teachers’ sites /broadened my understanding of sites available

· Creating a blog

· The edublogs site

· Possibilities for class use

· The number of khs staff already involved /good work from fellow teachers

· Interesting way to communicate with other teachers around the world and in remote locations

· Easy to start a blog

· For an Australian school, interesting a lot of HTML goes to American sites

· A large variety of blogs and purposes / a variety of ways to present blogs

· Anybody can blog!

 

2 things you learnt

· The different formats of blogging

· It is easy to set up blogs

· The amount of people using this

· Amazing technology

· Navigating around the site

· How to sign up for a blog

· Where edublogs is and why we are using it

· Other teachers’ work online

· There is step by step support

· Discoveries about ‘better’ books through links to American sites

· How to blog

· How to log in

· The uses of blogs

· Looked at sites I can revisit to use scaffolds

· A good site for smartboard resources—www.SmartDraw.com (mindmapping)

 1 question you have

· So, how do you do it? Would like to have a go and get a blog going.

· How do you put pictures/info/your work on a blog?

· Privacy issues for students re: photos etc?

· How do you make your blog private?

· How do I set up a class blog for a topic area?

· When am I going to find the time to engage in this form of media?

· Can you blog for your own personal use?

· If you include a youtube attachment will it be blocked by the department?

 

It’s great to see that we have quite a few people joining this learning journey. Get yourself an avatar if you haven’t already done so by choosing an image or photo to represent you, and post a comment on someone else’s blog. You can find them on the blogroll. Also, please link this blog to your blog.

Hi all, I’ve discovered a great website that allows you to create your own mind maps etc. You have to sign up but there is no fee. Try it.    www.bubbl.us

Welcome to our blog! I hope we can use it to learn about what blogs are and how to use them to improve students’ engagement and learning. As you all know, you learn by doing… so I hope you will ‘do’ with me. This is the first time I’ve ‘blogged’ and am learning as I go. I think this can evolve into a valuable source of learning together for us. We will determine it’s direction as we go. Think about what you want to know, what you want to learn and what you can help others with. So, let’s blog!

We are a group of teachers from a coeducational comprehensive high school in Sydney. Our students come from a variety of rich and diverse cultural backgrounds, as do our teachers. We hope, together, to emerse ourselves in e learning and learn to use web 2.0 tools. We hope to have fun, learn new skills and improve student outcomes.

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