Blogging For All
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Blogs can be used by both teachers and students. Teachers' blogs allow them to communicate with colleagues, reflect on their own practice, and share resources. Students' blogs provide a purpose for writing and can enhance literacy skills if moderated properly. Setting up a blog is easy and there are many teacher-created blogs linked that cover different subject areas and provide examples.
Blogging For All
- 2. What a blog is Teachers’ blogs Students’ blogs Safe blogging Easy blog reading Setting up a blog
- 4. Traditionally used as an online journal Combines text, images, videos, links Allows discussion through comments NOT a social network e.g. Facebook, Ning NOT a website Teachers’ blogs Students’ blogs
- 5. http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/ To keep in touch with local and national picture: New courses, who is doing what locally... To support colleagues’ development: To cascade good practice To reflect on my own practice
- 6. http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/ Made a great number of professional contacts that supported my own development and that of my colleagues ; Help me re-affirm what my core purposes are ; Developed my ICT skills and ability to quickly adapt to new ICT tools.
- 10. Provide a real purpose: audience Quiet way to praise students Support literacy development Assessment for learning Enhances listening, speaking, reading and writing skills Facilitates student access to resources http://mrsjoneslanguageresources.blogspot.com/
- 11. Introduce competition between parallel classes Post questions Magazines Multimedia projects Collaborative writing Creative writing Exchanging information with link schools
- 12. Agree rules with students: respect, language... First names only All posts and comments moderated by teacher Use avatars Check rules for publishing pictures
- 13. Rss feeds: http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/ My own Teacher blog http://mrsjoneslanguageresources.blogspot.com/ My own MFL blog for students http://www.dougbelshaw.com/ high profile blog by history / ICT teacher Doug Belshaw http://elearnr.edublogs.org/ Doug also runs ICT insets for his colleagues http://www.geographyalltheway.com/ Geography blog http://www.geogtastic.blogspot.com/ Geography blog by Miss Ellis http://mrscossu.blogspot.com/ new mfl blog that has just been set up for students http://historytech.wordpress.com/ History blog by American teacher http://skambalu.edublogs.org/tag/web-20/ Susan Kambalu’s blog (RS teacher) http://www.nodehillre.typepad.com/ Nodehill School RS blog http://rs.rainhammark.com/ Rainham Mark Grammar School’s RS blog http://stmre.edublogs.org/ RE at St Thomas More’s School http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/ Joe dale’s MFL blog