Blogging 101 Learning at Schools presentation.

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What is blogging?○ Blog is short for web log.

○ A blog is an online diary.

○ Most recent posts are usually at the top.

○ Posts are ordered by date stamp.

○ Blogger is a popular, free weblog publishing tool from Google for sharing text, photos and video.

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Why blog?○ An authentic audience for your students work.

○ A place to put all the digital content you are creating.

○ Helps you to reflect on your teaching and students reflect on their learning.

○ It's rewarding and it's fun!

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How to get started.○ Go blog surfing. Think about what you like and what

you don’t like.

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Get permission.

•Inform the parents.

•Only first names and photos.

•Share some examples.

•Share your excitement.

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What to blog?

○ Write a great introduction.

○ Share the classroom walls.

○ Take lots of photos.

○ Ask the students!

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Get some gadgets.

○ A hit counter.

○ An email subscriber feature.

○ Links to favourite sites.

○ A cluster map.

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Now get posting!

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Writing.

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Videos.Yesterday was one of the wettest we have had in Northland and by the end of the day I only had 3 children left at school!This morning we talked about the rain we have been having, we looked at some photos Reuben brought in on a pen drive of his cousins farm flooded and we talked about the rain and what it does when it really really rains.We listened to the rain in the youtube clip below to create images in our minds then I read to the children the poem Real Rain by Alan Bagnall and we brainstormed all the verbs we could think of to describe the rain falling.Now we are writing our own real rain poems - check back later to read them. : )

Real Rain posts on blog.http://room10sfx.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/rain-has-gone-for-now-at-least.html?q=rainhttp://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1781310978086000426#allposts

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Lessons.

○ Teach the parents.

○ Reinforce lessons.

○ Flip the classroom.

○ Share the learning.

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Comments.

○ Teach students and parents how to comment.

○ Moderate comments.

○ Share the comments in the morning like email.

○ Rave about comments.

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Tagging or Labelling Posts.

○ Tag to sort posts by curriculum area.

○ Tag to identify individual children's work.

○ Tag for assessment.

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Promoting your blog.

Make business cards for your students to take home.

Make fridge magnets for parents.

Link from your school website.

Drop into your class newsletter.

Make it an activity for homework.

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Quadblogging.

A Blog needs an audience to keep it alive for your learners. Too often blogs wither away leaving the learners frustrated and bored. Quadblogging gives your blog a truly authentic and global audience that will visit your blog, leave comments and return on a 4 week cycle.

http://quadblogging.net/

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Keeping the momentum going.

•Set a regular time to blog. ( I used ssr time.)

• Have a blogger of the week / day.

• Pair up with another class to peer blog.

• Build reading blogs into reading time.

• Use email posting.

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How to start a blog on blogger.

Here are 2 links to sites which will talk you through, step by step, setting up and starting a blog.

http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Blog-on-Blogger

Adding bling to your blog

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Email posting to your blog.One of the real challenges facing teachers with class blogs is finding the time to post online the wonderful teaching and learning experiences they are sharing in their classrooms.

Email posting is fast, holds the time/place in your blog and allows you to go back and add more detail later. (if you wish)

It also allows you to post from anywhere at any time and allows you to let other people, including students, post to your blog without having to give them sign in access.

Check out this video to show how I used email to live-blog a class trip. : )

http://blog.core-ed.org/blog/2012/03/a-blog-an-iphone-a-school-visit-

and-its-impact.html