Northwest Region ECS Training – thank you

I wanted to thank those who were at the NW ECS training last Wednesday for your participation in the blog training! There were some great comments and ideas posted to my blog. Hopefully you learned something new and went away with an idea of how you can use blogging on your campus to enhance the curriculum.

For those of you who weren’t in attendance, hopefully this info will get you started if you were looking to add blogging as one of the tech integration tools you use on your campus.

I am currently working on a set of training modules that will walk you and your teachers through the process of setting up classroom blogs, but until then I wanted to give you some instruction sheets that will get you going. **See the box.net widget at the end of this post for handouts**

I also wanted to send you all a few helpful links:

1. I don’t know if any of you get THE Journal, but the issue I got in my mailbox last Friday has an article on blogging (great timing!)..anyway, here is the link to the article.

2. A few elementary ECSs were concerned about how blogging could be used in the elementary setting…I have seen some amazing stuff done on elementary blogs. Here are a few examples:

http://teacher102.edublogs.org/
http://strettonhandley.edublogs.org/
http://2mgems.blogspot.com/

3. There is a woman named Sue Waters who is known as http://theedublogger.edublogs.org. She posts helpful tidbits on using edublogs in the classroom. She currently is compiling a list of educational blogs broken down into categories. Check out the post with her list of blogs here, there are over 100 blogs listed. This may help you see how blogging can ‘fit’ for your school. If you have teachers that already have blogs, have them leave a comment with their blog information here so that The Edublogger can add them to the list.

good luck and please email me if you have any questions!

edublogs tutorial sources:
http://www.willard.k12.mo.us/co/tech/blog.htm