Taking Your Class Blog Further

Margaret VassICT Curriculum Support Officer

Falkirk Council Education Services

Build An Audience - 1

Falkirk Council Education Services

Track your visitors in Google Earth

http://feedjit.com/

•Read blogs

•Leave comments

Building An Audience - 2

Falkirk Council Education Services

http://www.scotedublogs.org.uk/

Connect with other educational bloggers in Scotland

Subscribe to RSS feeds

Blogging Activity – Mp3 Recorders

Falkirk Council Education Services

•Introductions – My Hobbies

•Interviews – parents, class members, community, etc.

•Recounts – school trips, lesson revision

Blogging Activity – Digital Camera

Falkirk Council Education Services

•Photo-a-day project

Blogging Activity – Video Recorder

•Inexpensive ‘Flip’ video cameras are very easy to use and ‘child-friendly’

•Use free video hosting sites such as Photobucket.com

Blogging Activity – Parent Workshop

Group presentations

Blogging Activity – Topic 1

School Bullying Survey

Blogging Activity – Topic 2

Writing For An Audience

Blogging Activities – Out and About

Our

Community

Curricular Blogs

Set up blogs for different curricular areas

Share a Wiki

http://www.wikispaces.com

http://pbwiki.com/

Create Avatars

http://www.weeworld.com/

Free Online Resources - 1

Set up a class Voki account

http://www.voki.com/

Create a

‘Meet the Class’

page

Free Online Resources - 2

http://voicethread.com/

Free Online Tools - 3

http://animoto.com/

Free Online Tools - 4

Share Powerpoint presentations online

http://www.myplick.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/