“HAPPY BLOGGING”
WHAT?
Classroom examples:
Have a look at these classroom blogs – browse through the blogrolls for even more blogs to check out 🙂
High School Blogs!
The Open Classroom – English Secondary School teacher
Technolote – a Ning group for Language teachers
Hawkesdale School – Victoria
Collaboration Nation – Middle School Blog
These blogs are written by Ian McLean – Librarian. Interesting ideas!
Book Rap Blogs Wilrid Rap Blog – Stage 1 content
Identity Rap Blog – Stage 4 content
Here are two help sites for edublogs. Help, hints, ideas, and how tos …..
WHY?
- Visitors
- Comments
- Engagement
- Motivation
- Quality Teaching Elements:
- Intellectual Quality
- Problematic knowledge
- Higher-order thinking
- Substantive communication
- Quality Learning Environment
- Explicit quality criteria
- High expectations
- Student direction
- Significance
- Cultural knowledge
- Knowledge integration
- Connectedness
- Narrative
- Intellectual Quality
PROCESS
Experience
Talking
Sharing
Making
Doing
Recording – photographing
Writing
Sharing
“Writing stops; blogging continues.
Writing is inside; blogging is outside.
Writing is monologue; blogging is conversation.
Writing is thesis; blogging is synthesis.”
Will Richardson 2006
You can check out Will’s blog here!
21ST CENTURY CLASSROOM
- Tools for learning
- Cultural resonance
- Creating
- Designing
- Synthesising
- Collaborating
- Multiple Intelligences
- Blooms
- VOICE
TYPES
Newsletter
Noticeboard
Reports
Show and tell
Interactive discussion
Conversations
Collaborative work
Reflective tool
Research tool
TOOLS
Pictures
- Flikr
- Bubbleshare
- Slideshare
- Photostory
- Voicethread
- Rock You
- Photobucket
- Slide.com
Cartoons
- ToonDoo
- Stripgenerator
- Comiqs
Voki
WeeMee
Video
- Teacher tube
- Photobucket
- Jumpcut
- Google video
- Vodpod
- UStream
Montages
- Scrapblog
- Glog
- Showbeyond
Wikis
Room 18 New Zealand Class wiki
Skype
Social Networks
- Ning
- Bebo
- MySpace
Bling
- Clustremaps
- Counters
- Bookshelf
- Deli.cio.us bookmarking
- Weather Pixie
- Clocks
- Time zones
PROJECTS
Projects are a great way to start blogging. here are some ideas and places to start.
Often projects can be found by “word of mouth” and on peoples blogs. Look in the sidebars/menus for referneces to projects too.
Jenuine Tech has a list of projects for the next 6 months
Oz Projects has Australian based projects K-12, both Australia wide and global projects