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04/18/23

May 7, 2010

Marilyn, Kelley, Jill

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Presentation Outline

Introductions Experience a Blog Marilyn Jill Kelley Issues Begin your class blog today Other resources

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Experience a Blog

Learn. Explore. Change the World….

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Why Blog?

Marilyn Gammon4dragons

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It’s fun!

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We can connect to our community

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Go Dogs Go! Happy New Year!

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It’s our toolkit

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Math Games

Digital Storytelling

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We can connect to the world

A dolphin in Florida

Hope for Haiti

Olympic Torch

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Why I Blog

http://northernmuses3.blogspot.com/ for my students for my teaching

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Kelley’s First Blog – A website

First –my website, where I keep a running record of everything that is happening http://indenblog.edublogs.org/

Each class has its own parent page Each parent page can have separate pages for

distinct units I have a few general pages, like “Help with

Writing” The front page is a blog where I make general

comments

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Kelley’s Second Blog

Second – History 12 Class Blog http://history12.wordpress.com/ First year for me I am hoping to

increase student accountability in classroom discussions

create a learning community structure current events homework provide students with the opportunity to

experience the Web 2.0 future coming at them

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Issues

Efficiency Safety

privacy/anonymity e.g. pictures usernames

Etiquette Presentation Filter Assessment (one) (two)

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Sign up now for one of these blogging

tools so that you can begin using it with

your class next week!

edublogs

wordpress

blogger

classblogmeister

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Other Resources Blogs

Classroom Blogging Training Videos

(Blogger) (Word Press) (Blogs in Plain English)

Wikis (DIRT) (WebTools4u2use)

Safety Microsoft

PDF (Blogger from www.larkin.net.au)