Sesh 2, WLSSlibrary PD.

There are many different directions you could take in this session.

1. You can explore how to change and manage things within your blog at http://edublogs.org/videos/

2. Add pictures to your blog.

3. There are some great wigits available…

• The Generator Blog FD Flickr Toys
• try searching for online generators, text generators or image generators such as Comic Strip Generator http://www.fototrix.com/comics/
• Image Chef
• Image Generator has a large selection of categories to choose from.
• JellyMuffin Image Generator
• Cool Text
• Make images from text- Font Image Generator

4. Explore teacher-tube and add videos to your blog. Some examples of embedding videos are:-

Medievil Help Desk

• students projects can be created and showcased
• teachers can post notes, resources,
• Students can collaborate to build glossaries, thesaurus…

Sesh 1. WLSSLibrary PD

Why let our children blog? Rachel Boyd, 18/04/07

Blogs in the elementary classroom Runheisey 24/4/09 (Slow but good)

Mike Temple from edublogs gives a few ideas of things that you can add to your blog

Choose your own blogging PD at Teachertube

1. Set up a blog

There are many bogging sites available. I like used Edublogs and Global teacher, as they are fairly easy and versatile. Whichever you choose, you need to apply, and then you should receive an activation email. When you receive this, you can login and start using your blog. Activation can take a while, mine have been almost instant but I believe they can take up to 30min. In the down time explore the links listed above.

Make sure you record your login and password

Choose one and follow the steps.

Edublogs

Global Teacher

Be sure to record your blog address

View some of the great short “how to videos” about managing your blog at Edublog Videos.

to get to your blog –

• You can type in your blog address which will be like http://(xxxx).globalteacher.org.au xxxx=is the unique name you entered in Step 2, i.e. http://maryslearning.globalteacher.com.

• You will be able to login to your blog using the ’site admin’ or ‘meta’ area on your blog.

Save your blog to your bookmarks or favourites so you can return to it easily.

2. Write

Write your very first post on your blog – you can wipe it later if you wish.

On your “About” page introduce yourself…you can change the title…or explain what the blog is for. Simply go to the admin site of your blog (sometimes also called ‘meta’), login and this will bring you to your dashboard. Click ‘write’, and create a post.

3.  More

How to change your template or theme - edublogs

Scott Leslie’s ‘Some uses for Blogs in Education’

Blogging in Plain English-educational video

Edubeacon (Education Blog by Camilla Elliot)

VEC Blogs

Lucacept – a great blog post on utilising blogging in the classroom

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