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ICON• It is an expectation that the spaces in
Ultranet will be used to create collaborative learning spaces.
• Global 2 (edublogs) Blogging is a tool that can simply drop straight into a collaborative learning space on Ultranet.
• The CEO are telling us to prepare staff for ICON by setting up blogs.
• Digital portfolios will be an expectation.
Why should we blog?
LiteracySkills
ICT Skills
Audience and
Purpose
Collaboration
Developing Inquiry
Feedback
Sharing Successes
Cybersafety
Making Learning
Visual
Engagement
Cybersafety
• Building a positive digital footprint
• Modelling appropriate online behaviours
• Effective digital citizenship
ICT Skills• Students and teachers learn ICT
skills through creating blog posts
• They use ICT tools involving images, videos, audio, presenting information, etc
• A lot of the ICT curriculum standards are covered through blogging
Sharing Successes
• When students succeed at something they can share it with a wider audience
• Parents, peers, school community, global community
Collaboration
• Students can collaborate with other students or classes on projects
• Parents can be involved in their child’s learning
• The global community can become part of the learning process
• Classes can be part of world wide projects
• (eg. World Read Aloud Day/Feb 29th)
Engagement
• Students are engaged as they have a clear purpose for their work and are sharing it with an audience
• Students are often engaged when working with ICT tools
• Students are creating
• Students receive feedback on their posts
Literacy Skills• Leaving comments teaches
students to think carefully about what they write and revise
• Students read their own blog as well as others
• Writing for a purpose motivates students to write better
• Publishing audio and video increases oral language skills
• Blogs give you authentic reasons to model many literacy skills
Audience and Purpose
• Everything is produced for a purpose with an audience in mind
• Having a clear purpose increases motivation and engagement
• Writing now has an audience. Work is not left in books it is published for the world to see!
Developing Inquiry
• Connecting with experts
• Taking action that matters
• Researching
• Sharing understandings
• Can be used as an inquiry wall
Making Learning Visible• A window into the classroom
• Parents can access the blog at anytime day or night and see what is happening in class
• Use past posts to draw conclusions and reflect on learning
• Use the blog as assessment of learning
• An archive of learning
Resources
- Kathleen Morris: Integrating Technology in the Classroom http://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au
- Celia Coffa: Presentation at St Luke’s Blackburn South
- Jenny Luca: http://mindshift.kged.org/2011/08/six-reasons-why-kids-should-know-how-to-blog/
Stage Two
Contribute to the Holy Family
practice blog
Build skills in a safe and supported
environment
Support each other as we
learn
Stage Three
Start your own class
blog
Class blog - teacher
controlled/ student centred
Class blog - students take more control
What to do next?
• Explore and comment on some of the blogs in the email
• Collect four ideas that can be used for practise blog posts next PLT
• These could include – photos, samples of students work (we can take the photos in the PLT), videos, topics