FORUM: Blogging 101
Posted by Karen Spencer
When: 6 Aug 2012 - 27 Aug 2012
Venue: Enabling e-Learning: Teaching
Organiser: Karen Melhuish Spencer - Enabling e-Learning
Contact: Karen Melhuish Spencer
This is a facilitated forum discussion: /discussion/view/695542
Join this discussion to ask questions about getting started, share how blogs are being used within schools to develop communication, collaboration, and deeper levels of reflection. Skilled bloggers will be available to share their experience: Allanah King, Kimberley Rivett, and Stephanie Thompson.
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Comments
I love blogging as a way of children sharing their learning with family / whanau and the wider world.
The learning is greatly enhanced when children can revisit it via a blog from home and involve their families in their journey.
One sucessful example of using a class blog to share the learning, on a class trip, with families/whanau is linked below.
http://blog.core-ed.org/blog/2012/03/a-blog-an-iphone-a-school-visit-and-its-impact.html
Anyone intersted in blogging here is a great new site.
http://www.primaryblogmap.org/
What a great way to find blogs from other countries and/or cultures your students have a particular interest in.
Dont forget to add your blog to the map to increase your blog traffic too.
Room 5 @ Whangarei Primary School have just started their blog. Would love to show them the power of sharing through the class blog by getting comments on their posts
Would appreciate anyone who has time to jump in and leave a comment.
I am running a staff meeting tonight to encourage a variety of ways to post onto and engage with blogs. Last night the power of Twitter enabled a group of educators around the globe to collaborate on an e-learning bingo card! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ujeB4_rLOafoTyBeMFxrtYiCxvUlgiFfeV38Qori32E/edit
Amazed by the speed and creativity of the collaboration I blogged about it here http://annekcam.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/pure-magic-of-crowdsourcing.html
Thanks Anne for sharing your blogging bingo this morning - this is a perfect example of collaborative planning and shows the range of great knowledge and expertise available to us in our teaching community and the willingness to share. Great to see.
For a NZ list of blogs check out the Interface Magazine link. Great idea to add your blog here if you haven't already done so.
Great idea from twitter this morning.
Upgrade your class jobs chart to include daily blogger, emailer and tweeter!