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Using a Weblog as an Educational Tool
  • Reinhard Wieser Teacher Training College,
    Innsbruckwww.pa-tirol.tsn.at www.pa-aktuell.tsn
    .at/blog.helsinki

2
Overview
  • Introduction
  • Tools we are using for our English course for
    teachers at agricultural schools
  • What is a weblog?
  • What is Wordpress?

3
About myself ?
  • 1985 - 2003 Commercial college
  • 1998 - today also employed at In-Service Teacher
    Training Institute mainly for CAI!
  • 2000 - today employed at Pre-Service Teacher
    Training College (PH Tirol)
  • Since 98 free-lance writer
  • Since March 2005 fully employed at PH Tirol
  • Comenius network RIAC
  • CAI English courses
  • International office

4
Resources for teachers
  • Since 1999 Tirolean School Network
  • Nearly all schools broadband
  • TSN hosted by a company owned by the local
    government
  • Services (free for schools/teachers)
  • Mail, WWW, subdomains, video servers support
    hotline
  • E-learning platforms (Blackboard, Moodle)

5
Wordpress
  • Apart from using it as a blog
  • Can be used for small medium websites
  • Can be used for online portfolios
  • Online portfolio
  • Names of authors created by system
  • Date created by system
  • Archives created by system

6
English Course
  • For agricultural teachers who want to acquire
    additional competences
  • 4 instructors, 13 participants gt 3 semesters
  • Basic platform Blackboard (hosted by university,
    license fees)
  • Portfolio Wordpress (hosted in Tirolean school
    network, free)

7
What is a weblog?
  • Weblog form of a Content Management System (CMS)
  • Weblogs and CMS gt website
  • Weblogs small CMS, mostly used as online
    diaries, but some are versatile!
  • Weblogs
  • Commercial blogs blogger.com etc.
  • Open source blogs Wordpress.org etc.

8
Wordpress tech talk
  • Open source software no costs
  • Requires LAMP server
  • Linux
  • Apache web server
  • MySQL database
  • PHP
  • Installed in 2 minutes
  • Based on CSS technology, RSS feeds

9
Wordpress - Publishing
  • After the installation
  • Tool ready for use (except structure and content
    link categories, imprint etc.)
  • Package various designs or "themes, 100s of
    themes can be downloaded
  • No programming required
  • Various user levels administrator, editor,
    author, etc.
  • Pages, links, archives created automatically

10
Links
  • Download it from here
  • English version www.wordpress.org
  • Finnish version http//kimmo.suominen.com/sw/word
    press-fi

11
  • Thank you for your attention!
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