Wednesday 22 July 2009

Creating a blog for your students. Why and How?

My digital learning journey began in 2007.
The steps are documented in one of my very first posts in 2007. My November post outlines the steps I took.

I settled for a google blog. At that time it was blogspot, soon to be renamed blogger.com

Click to begin to set up your blog using google Blogger platform or the edublogs platform.

This YouTube video may also assist.

Commoncraft produced Blogs in Plain English video.

Learning with Blogs and Wikis is a worthwhile read by Bill Ferriter in Educational Leadership.

50 Useful Blogging Tools for Teachers says it all- almost ...

Blogging: Basics and Beyond is worth a view on SlideShare.

To blog or not to blog? A post by Graham Stanley.

Nik Peachey has written Blogging as part of the community.

This post discusses blog safety

These blogs show what teachers are doing:

Global Teacher is a virtual blogging environment which exists to promote curriculum excellence through the use of Web 2.0 technology. This directory acts as a 'front door' to a virtual staff room that is filled with rich resources, global projects and examples of teachers and students using Web 2.0 technology in exciting ways.

Feeling ready to delve more deeply into the possibilities, check the blogs of these top users.

Mrs Wyatt's inspirational work on several blogs with global blogging projects.
http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/07/17/the-best-practical-ed-tech-blogs/
http://electriceducator.blogspot.com/
http://mrslachance.blogspot.com/
http://classroom-technology.weebly.com/
http://marynabadenhorst.globalteacher.org.au/thinkingbrainstorming-tools/

Resources for blog posts
http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/gallery-swgfl.html



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