Gwinnett Digital Learning Conference

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Blogging 101

• Gwinnett Digital Learning Conference
• June 14, 2011
• Sarah Crawford

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Why use blogs?

• Personal Professional means
• Be heard
• Have your own voice

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Why use blogs?
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Why blog?

• Writing across the curriculum
• Increase critical thinking skills
• Increase writing skills
• Incorporate the word of the day in
• writing lessons
• Catch those students who think
• better by using a computer

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Why use blogs?English, Language Arts, Business Ed

• Develop writing and communication skills
• Provide students creative outlet through
• journaling
• Engage in virtual learning circles
• Collaborate with classrooms all over the world

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Why use blogs?Foreign Language

• Have students blog in the language they are
• learning
• Create blogs about different geographical and
• cultural topics
• To find news, websites or videos in their
• target language

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Why use blogs?History Social Studies

• Have students create timelines using
• different tools embed them into blogs
• Write posts in the voice of historical figures
• Look at current events and compare and
• contrast them to historical events

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Why use blogs?Mathematics

• Working mathematical problems and then
• have to post their processes to find the
• answer
• Link videos or other websites to mathematical
• problems for more practice

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Why use blogs?Science

• Keep interactive science experiment notebook
• detailing methods and conclusions
• Class discussions concerning controversial
• issues such as evolution
• Discussion in the dialogue of famous
• scientists

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Setting up Blogs1. Choose a blog service

• - Personal
• Wordpress -wordpress.org/
• Blogger/blog spot www.blogger.com
• LiveJournal - www.livejournal.com
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Setting up Blogs1. Choose a blog service

• - Professional
• 21 Classes -www.21classes.com
• Edublogs edublogs.org
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Setting up Blogs2. Vocabulary

• Dashboard, Theme, Post, Page, Comments, Sidebar,
  Widget, Plugins, RSS, Threaded discussion
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Setting up Blogs3. Privacy User Settings

• Administrator
• Editor
• Author
• GCPS all comments must be moderated!
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Setting up Blogs4. Blogging Rules

• Identify information that is appropriate in posts
  e.g., names, images.
• What is inappropriate?
• Ex 1, 2, 3
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Setting up Blogs5. Creating a blog

• Examples
• Cool Cat Teacher Blog Vicki Davis
• E-learning Queen
• David Pogue - NYTimes
• Hey Brookwood
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