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Talking points – Blogging workshop

Talking points – Blogging workshop


1. Intro Blogs – what are they good for
  a. Staff to community
  b. Comments – community to staff
  c. Staff to
  d. Student Blog as learning tool


2. Recommended tools:
a. Blogger – Google Product – free for schools and will allow students in secure location for email and interaction with blogs, Google docs. District has it set up and ready to roll.
b. EduBlog – free limited, subscription for advanced features


3. Ten Rules of blogging
4. Walk through set up
5. Gmail account required for Blogger
6. Create account using Gmail login.
7. Both have dashboard to control access to features and resources
8. Permissions
  a. turn off comments until you have a reason to use them
  b. make private or public
9. Start with simple text
10. add pages as you see a need to
11. add pictures and links as you become comfortable
12. add media – links and embedded
13. start small – and practice daily until you get it figured out
14. Questions

Intro Notes Ch1

Thoughts, terms and twittle:

Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts and other Powerful WebTools for Classrooms, Will Richardson

• Citizen Journalist-participatory journalism
• example: Northwest Voice 
• Greensboro 101 
• Read/Write Web - contrast with early web which was one way - read only
• Education Impacts
• worldwide public communication both by students and teacher
• how do we think about literacy under that condition?
• what are risks and opportunities?
• Digital Natives who (Mathew Bischoff , Dylan Verdi) have gotten national recognition for the innovative ways they use the web.
• Teachers: digital immigrants - did not grow up with technology.
• Tools are easy to use and should help close the gap
•  21st century tool box
• Weblogs - easy to use, can handle pictures, video, text with comments
• Wikis online collaborative webspace
• Rich Site Summary - allow you to subscribe to feeds of content created on the Internet
• Aggregators- collects and organizes content generated by RSS feeds
• Social Bookmarking -0 saves addresses as well as entire pages and allow subject specific resources lists which then can be shared via RSS
• Online photo galleries Flickr - my site
• Audio/Video-casting publish and distribute digital and video files  (Claxton Food video )

How will this change the way you teach? What do you hope to accomplish with the first Blog you do?

What do you consider when teaching with technology

• Student Safety
• commonsense
• policy/law - federal, state and local
• Gov't regulation CIPA
• monitors and filters content at school
• privacy of students
• Make your own web tours/webquests, use class blog to identify safe content to support your curriculum
• Know how to use permissions and settings to protect children
• Notify parents of the Internet use
• Be ready to set guidelines and stick to them with students
• Be sure students are aware that information posted to the web is there permanently and that they have no control once it's posted