It’s time for you to create your own Blogger blog – take the challenge!
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Just the other day I was showing a group how to blog using one of my favourite sites – Blogger.com – when I discovered to my shock that the new interface was now mandatory. No more hiding behind what one was once comfortable with. I then decided to get to know the new interface and made screenshots as I went along. I would really like to share these with you and encourage you to make yourself a blog. A classroom blog is one of the things you can do to transform your c...Read more
Recently I created a Slideshare called ‘Your blog can be a fantastic teaching tool’ and I wrote from the standpoint of the teacher using a blog to teach. I posted this in an earlier blog post. Here it is just as a reminder.
A blog can be a fantastic teaching tool
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Today’s post examines how a blog can be very beneficial to the students in a classroom, and in this case, an English classroom.
Create a blog for yourself and for your students
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I always look forward in anticipation to the Edublogs Awards every year to see their choice of best blogs, wikis, podcasts, webinar series, social networks, Web tools, individual tweeters and group twitter hashtags. Initially potential winners from the categories are nominated, and then everyone votes. This is a big affair!
Took a look at the winners from around the world. It is a great way of keeping in touch with what is happening on the social networking scene. (By the way, wi...
I have recently been exploring several different ways of putting video on to a blog or wiki; and when a friend asked me for some ideas on how to do this I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to summarise what I have tried up to now and what I plan to try in the future and use it as a blog post! So here goes…
1. SHORT VIDEOS
This is something I learned through someone else – isn’t it amazing how we learn from one another all the time! In Blogger and Edublogs you can easily add vid...
Even if you have only one computer in your classroom, you can make a start in integrating technology into your curriculum by getting your class involved in a blogging programme. Why not consider it?
Get involved in blogging projects
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There are five Web2.0 applications that I think make a blog a really worthwhile teaching tool in a technology integrated classroom. They are:
1) Box.net where you can store documents that you have created and link to them.
2) Embedit.in which allows you to embed anything on your blog.
3) Slideshare which maakes an e-book from a PowerPoint or PDF. This is so useful for instructions.
4) Screencast-o-matic where you can explain and show at the same time.
5) Vocaroo.com where you can give verbal instructions...
Recently I have been running a free online blogging course for teachers around South Africa, and I decided to do all the teaching from a blog to model blogging. I suddenly realised what a fantastic teaching tool a blog can be in a technology integrated classroom. I’d like to share a few of the Web 2.0 applications that can really aid a teacher in a classroom.
1. Use Box.net to link to documents you have created http://box.net
For example
1.1 Join Box.net and upload your document. You ...
Have you recently created a blog and you find it is look rather bare?
*Perhaps you would like to make it look more like a website?
*Would you like to change the background into something bright and appealing?
*Would you like to have a whole string of gadgets down the side?
We call the gadgets down the side ‘Widgets’ and they certainly do make our blogs more interesting and effective. Here is a slideshare of some of the things you can do to spruce up your blog.
Adding bells and whistles to yo...
Classroom blogging is one of the most exciting ventures for a classroom teacher to embark on. It opens a door of possibilities and makes the way for making a host of new friends around the world. Apart from that it gives parents an opportunity to take a peek into the classroom and see what is happening. I love blogging!
This weekend I presented a workshop entitled ‘Blogging for teachers’ at the EdTechConference at Elkanah House in Cape Town. I started off with the ideas that follow in the slide-share...
