Due to the popularity of blogging and its interactve quality, many teachers are joining in. Providing students with the opportunity to be producers of information on the web instead of just being consumers is a powerful teaching tool. Today, I am conducting a training on blogging for the staff of Escobedo MS.
The goal for today’s training is to allow teachers the time to explore edublogs.org and other blogging tools, determine how they see blogs fitting into theri curriculum, and get started blogging!
Teachers = your tasks today are to:
1. Visit the blogs of teachers on campus and through edublogs.org. Determing how you see blogging fitting into your curriculum.
Samples:
http://integratingtechnology.edublogs.org/
http://lgeslibrary.edublogs.org/
http://mr-fisher.edublogs.org/
http://africacolony.wordpress.com/
2. Log into your edublogs.org account. Set up your theme (Desigh tab). And create a post (Write>Post).
get help if you need it: http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/getting-started-with-edublogs/
3. Enter my forum and post an answer to the question I have provided.
Advanced users:
Visit the following sites and add one of the tools to your blog. Make it meaningful!
Add a picutre or video to your blog.
Add surveys and polls : http://polldaddy.com
Creaet a form : http://wufoo.com/
Create a quiz: http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/create-a-quiz.php
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I hope they find the information on The Getting Started With Edublogs page helps them.
With the embeds you might want to point out to the more advanced people remember do it as the last step — click on HTML tab, add embed code and immediately click PUBLISH. Don’t change back to Visual Tab and if you edit post you may have to re-add the embed code.