Blogs - Creating Classroom Content in Cyberspace!!
Day 1
Class Information - food rules(!), cell phone rules, bathroom location, etc.
- What it is
- What it isn’t
- what you can use the tool for?
Some examples and discussion about various uses for an educational blog
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Read and Respond exercises in class
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Woodlawn Blogs (http://wcsprimary.cuipblogs.org),(http://blog.cuip.net/wcs/)
- Rana Khan’s Hollaback blog (http://sextonblogs.cuip.net/hollaback/)
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- Communicate with parents/Classroom website
- Shoesmith Kindergarten Blog (http://shoesmithk.cuipblogs.org/)
- Joe Mills Murray Blog (http://mills.murrayblogs.org/)
- Student Collaboration
- Shoesmith Battle of the Books Blog (http://shoesmithbobblog.cuipblogs.org/)
- School Website
- Shoesmith Website (http://schools.cuip.net/shoesmith/)
Sign into blogs and get familiar with the Dashboard
Go through blog setup
- Blogroll (links)
- Design (themes)
- Comment moderation
- Plugins
Make a post, make a page
Difference between posts and pages
Categories and Tags
Homework: bring camera or a flash drive with photos
Day 2
Design:
- Choose a theme!
- Arrange widgets
- Theme options
Using digital photos in your blog
- Getting photos from the web
- Using your digital camera
- Getting Photos off camera and onto your computer
- Organizing your pictures
- Re-sizing your pictures
- Windows media importing wizard demo
- Uploading to blog
- Using “add media”
- Difference between gallery and media libraryI
Day 3
Audio and Video
Find Audio on web
- Copyright note
- Find sounds on the web
- Record your own sound file
PodPress
Windows Sound Recorder
- Record
- Upload
Audacity demo
Day 4
Video
- How to link/embed properly
- How to make your own and upload
Sidebars
Widgets
Day 5
Work and presentations
http://dmlambert.cuipblogs.org/
http://swhitfield.cuipblogs.org/
http://115.rayblogs.org/
http://ldwright.cuipblogs.org/
http://lcstuttley.cuipblogs.org/
http://mrkubey.cuipblogs.org/
http://mep2003.cuipblogs.org/
Additional resources to look at
- Blogging help at The Edublogger covers both educational goals / methods on using blogs in education, plus tech tips on using the system (User Roles, Comment Settings, Classification of their 100 Themes). Since their system is WPMU, the tech-tips aspect works in part for our CUIP WPMU users too.