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)
Monday, June 2, 2008
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.
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.
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