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Intermediate Educational Blogging

Intermediate Educational Blogging. Recognizing the screen elements of a blog, composing posts, making comments and a basic understanding of aggregators. What are we doing today?. Feedback Review of the schedule Review of the reading Review of the assignment Screen elements of the blog?

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Intermediate Educational Blogging

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  1. Intermediate Educational Blogging Recognizing the screen elements of a blog, composing posts, making comments and a basic understanding of aggregators.

  2. What are we doing today? • Feedback • Review of the schedule • Review of the reading • Review of the assignment • Screen elements of the blog? • Blog posting • The good, the bad and the ugly • Aggregators

  3. Feedback (what I learned) • People liked the activities • People felt they learned about the technology • People wanted more visuals and lecture • People wanted the groups to be smaller • People found the large group activity a little confusing • People need to access the ED3484 blog to be prepared. http://3484w06.blogspot.com/

  4. Course schedule • Lectures • Labs • Assignment

  5. RSS Ideas for Educators • Describes what we are doing. • What is RSS? • Really Simple Syndication • Rich Site Summary • Is a PULL technology • Considered FEEDS

  6. RSS Ideas for Educators • Aggregators (later today) • A way of view a number of blogs • Social Networks • People putting their social life online • Bookmarking • See what other like people are thinking • ePortfolios • Online rich media resumes • Sharing (flickr, odeo, bubblesphere) • Publishing your work

  7. Assignment Audience: Any one of K6 Students • Kindergarten • Primary (Grades 1-3) • Elementary (Grades 4-6) Context: NL K6 curriculum • Any subject within the NL curriculum Choose a grade, choose a subject, build a blog

  8. Assignment • A URL by March 21st • An 800 word design document • APA guidelines • A peer assessed rubric by March 30th • Completed by April 6th

  9. Assignment Grading Assignment is worth 25% of your ED3484 course grade. • 15/100 - meets dates • 30/100 - design document • 15/100 - peer assessment • 40/100 - BLOG

  10. NL Gov’t Curriculum Guide http://www.ed.gov.nl.ca/edu/sp/pcdbgl.htm • Choose your grade • Choose your subject • Create or find lessons plans • Brainstorm ideas • Include multimedia • Have fun • Build your blog…

  11. Parts of a blog • Browser • Header • Posts • About • Links • Previous • Archives • Login

  12. The administration of your blog also runs in a browser. Browser • Blogging software runs in a browser • Internet Explorer • Firefox • Opera

  13. Header • Provides a title and brief description • Can be customized to suit your audience and context • Your assignment blog should include YOUR name to begin it’s title.

  14. Posts • Have a content related title • Should have well written content • Should contain references; • To other sites • To multimedia elements • Every post should enrich the readers experience

  15. About • Displays information about your blog and you with data from your blogs description and your blogger profile’s meta-data.

  16. Links • Creates a list of blogs and sites the author of the blog likes to read. • Is a great way to find other interesting blogs related to teaching.

  17. Previous • Provides a list of your previous posts.

  18. Archives • Provides a method for readers to view all the blogs postings. • Can be archived by week, month and year.

  19. Note: Blogger uses this button to login. Administration • The dashboard has links to the administration features for all your blogs.

  20. A good blog is concise • Is active with posts and comments • Is current • Has rich media • Has related blogrolls • Is organized with categories • Is linked to an author profile • A well understood context • Has good aesthetics • Has concise post titles

  21. Activity • Small groups (3 or 4 people) • Brainstorm • The grade & the subject • Two or three blog posts • On the flip charts write the two or more posts you thought of for your blog. (include brief descriptions of the multimedia elements placed in the post)

  22. DEMO • Adding a post • Reference NL K6 Curriculum • Adding a comment

  23. Quality posting is important • A good post; • Has a concise post title • One or two paragraphs only • References other web info • Is a complete idea • Has an author • Does not duplicate another post • Anything else???

  24. Encourage thoughtful comments • A good comment; • Adds to the original post • Should NOT be anonymous • May include a web reference • Avoids being just a personal comment

  25. Document your Blog Design • Describe your audience • Social, economic & ethnic • Describe your subject • Grade, Subject, Curriculum elements • Blog elements and aesthetics • APA Guidelines

  26. Aggregators • See pages 10 through 14 of RSS ideas for Educators • Use bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com) DEMO

  27. Exit Activity • Write on one side of the card three things you learned during today’s lecture. • On the other side of the card write what you would like to learn more about. • Leave your cards at the front as you leave. Remember: Next class is in the LAB, E5006

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