I blog, you blog, (we)blog

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I blog, you blog, (we)blog
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Welcome to the blogosphere
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What is a blog?!?!?!

• Blog web log
• Traditionally used as an online diary

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Why do I want a blog?!?!?!

• Motivation
• Watch this, and then think how your pupils,
  colleagues and the parents will react

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The last 100 visitors to the Spanish blog
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Why use blogs?

• Motivation- make the world your classroom wall
• Learning no longer confined to exercise books
• Who is the audience for work which goes into an
  exercise book?
• - Truly global perspective

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Why use blogs?

• Assessment for Learning
• Comment function allows peer assessment using
  Two Stars and a Wish formula
• 2 positive elements
• 1 element to work at next time
• Self-assessment as pupils comment on their own
  work and thus self target set.

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Why use blogs?

• Enhances all 4 skill areas
• - listening, speaking reading and writing

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Why use blogs?

• Writing
• Increased motivation- will be viewed by more than
  just the teacher
• Very obvious to all when their peers work is
  missing from the blog

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Why use blogs?

• Reading
• Principal skill gain- pupils constantly reading
  each others work
• Allows free choice of which sections to read
• Aids pupil independence

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Why use blogs?

• Speaking
• Oral vocab lists to aid pronunciation
• Pupil and teacher generated podcasts
• Speaking tests / exercises
• learning opportunity rather than just an
  assessment opportunity
• Provides a platform for pupil-made videos

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• www.gizmoz.com
• www.voki.com
• - Pupils write scripts
• Peer assess
• Practise
• Record
• High level of enjoyment

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• Year 2 and 3- same rules apply
• Wrote scripts
• Peer-assessed and improved by adding conjunctions
• Practised together
• Recorded
• Listened to each others and gave a mark out of 5
  for accent and detail

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Why use blogs?

• Listening
• To podcasts
• To videos (pupil created, music, adverts,
  football commentaries etc)
• To peers work

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• On the blog this is a listening exercise, but...
• Pupils had to write scripts
• Peer-assessment
• Pupils read the script out and record it

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Music video - great cultural input - an
interesting homework to end topic of body parts
- Year 8 pupils were mostly humming the song
round school for next few days
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• Who provides the blog facility?
• TypePad - www.typepad.com
• Easiest for inserting fun stuff (provider that I
  use)
• Blogger - www.blogger.com
• Edublogs - www.edublogs.org
• Wordpress - www.wordpress.org
• Many, many more

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• How to find out new ideas?
• - keep reading other blogs!

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Google Reader - Uses RSS feeds to update you when
your favourite blogs have changed
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Why use blogs?

• Providing access to other resources
• Easy to access links to useful websites
• Resources such as PowerPoint or Word documents
  can be made available
• Motivation
• Assessment for learning
• Safe, monitored conditions for work on the web

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Objectives

• During the following session, you will be able
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• Adapt the design of your blog
• Make your first post
• Set up Comment Moderation
• Create a link to another site
• Investigate other tools to use with your blog

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• If in doubt, ask...
• Mrfulleredgehill_at_yahoo.co.uk
• www.chrisfuller.typepad.com