Blog, blog, blog… a way to get your students “talking” about learning

1. Blog, blog, blog… a way to get your students “talking” about learning Presented by Kelly Shea and Victoria Peterson

2. Tools We Will Be Using The Talk Button Hand Raising Tool Make sure you are posting to the main room! Chat Box Yes/No Tool

3. Tools We Will Be Using Arrow Key Text Tool

4. Who is our audience? Use the text tool to type on the screen the grades and subjects that you teach.

5. Focus and Objectives Focus Question: How can educators use blogging to enhance the learning experience for students in the content area of reading in the P-12 learning environment? Objective: The learners will be able to identify uses for blogging in the content area of reading.

6. Have you ever used a blog with your students? YES NO I would like to, but who has time?!?

7. Why Blog? • Encourages shy students to participate • Creates a sense of community in a • classroom • Extra reading and writing practice • Creates a way to communicate and/or • respond outside of class. • Students develop a desire to write • correctly, knowing that others will • see their writing.

8. First Things First! What are some things you should do when first beginning a blog in your classroom?

9. First Things First! Parental Permission Monitor Postings Administrative Support Respond in a Timely Manner Take Safety Precautions

10. First Things First! Signed AUP for Each Student Have Clear and Concise Expectations and Consequences Established and Reputable Blog Sites

11. What can elementary school students “talk” about?

12. What can elementary school students “talk” about? • Post original fact and opinion sentences • Word walls • Respond to literature • Classroom debate • Post sentences which include current vocabulary and spelling words • Students post facts on an assigned topic (ie. Frogs) and then class compiles facts and writes an informational paper.

13. What can middle school students “talk” about?

14. What can middle school students “talk” about? • Pen-Pals with students from other states…or even other countries!! • Share poetry • Random acts of kindness… • Classroom debate • Start a book club! • Private journals between student/teacher • Reflections (example: successes/failures at school?)

15. What can high school students “talk” about?

16. What can high school students “talk” about? • Record steps and research process for research papers/assignments • Role playing • Study guide • Classroom suggestion “box” • Continuing stories • Vocabulary add-to stories • Reflecting on or sequencing event in a novel • Reflections (example: successes/failures at school?) • Create and post podcasts

17. Blogging Across the Curriculum

18. Blogging Across the Curriculum • Fictional blog of a historical • figure • Use Google Earth to “pin” favorite • vacation spots on the map • Create KWL charts • Science Fair projects • Timelines • Political elections-positions • Media interviews • Math concepts/problem solving

19. A Well Designed Elementary School Blog

20. A Well Designed Middle School Blog

21. ????Questions????

22. Resources Miss McMillan's 7th Grade Blog http://wiki.ctkschool.org/users/mcmillank/ Nicole Gleason 2nd Grade Blog http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=221080&assignmentid=9452 Education World Article on Blogging http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech217.shtml Classroom Blogging: Blogging for Beginners http://www.classroomblogging.com/blogging-for-beginners Resourcing the Curriculum: Blogging in the Classroom http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/weblogs/