Agenda--January 14th

1. What is a Blog?
2. Why use a Blog?
3. Check your AUP
4. Check out other blogs
5. Set up a Blog yourself
6. If you want it private, click on settings, permissions-choose only people I choose
7. If you want the students to comment but you want to see the comments first-click on settings, choose comments, choose always monitor comments, add your email address
8. If you want to set up student blogs - check out post on this blog.
9. If you want to add video, slides shows, voki's, audio--check out other posts on this blog.

How to Add a Student Blog

Once you are at your blog's dashboard:
Click on Layout
Click on Add a Gadget
Click on Blue plus sign to add link list
Title=Student Blogs
Number of links = number of students
Make up new site url --(I usually add the school or teacher name first ie.ormsstudent1.blogspot.com)
Name of Student
Click Add link
Click on Student 1 from the list
Register (click on orange arrow)
Create a google account for student or click sign in first (I usually sign in first)
Name Blog Title the student name
Pick a template
Click continue
Start Blogging
(Repeat these steps for each student)

How to Guide

This is a nice PDF file that will take you through setting up your Blog with screen shots. PDF ON BLOG CREATION

Edutopia Article

This is a link to an article about what should be in place before your class decides to blog.



http://www.edutopia.org/place-based-blogging-how-to

Training Agenda

Blogs in the Classroom
Presented by Danielle Bolduc, Oyster River School District

A G E N D A

What is a Blog?

Why Use a Blog in the Classroom?

Examples of Blogs used in an educational setting
 Mr. McCormick’s 4th grade blog
 Civil War Tumblr blog
 6th Grade Blog for Ancient Egypt

Ideas for using Blogs in the Classroom
 An online journal
 As a web page
 A place for responses

Blogs I use:
 Blogger
 Tumblr

Fun Tools to Use With Blogs
 Audacity (www.audacity.sourceforge.net)
 Voki (www.voki.com)
 Slide (www.slide.com)
 Videos (youtube or schooltube)

Hands – On Activities

1. All participants will log on to the (doetraining.blogspot.com) Blog that I have created and add a comment.
2. Participants will take photos using their new camera and upload them to Slide.com
3. Participants will work with Audacity, and upload to GCast.
4. Participants will create their own Blog and include
a. Post
b. Slide.Com slideshow
c. One more fun thing (Voki, GCast, voicethread)

Video

TO add a video:
1. Take a video with your digital camera or digital video camera
2. save it to your C; (hard drive)
3. Add a post in blogger and click on the video icon
4. browse to find the video
5. the video will process, it takes a long time. You can save the post and come back later to publish it.

What Do You Want to Learn?

List one thing you would like to learn about setting up blogs today.