Teachmeet Road Show- Blogging

 

collaborative online blogs.doc.This document is an outline for the Online Publishing Roadshow using East Lothian Wordpress blogging tools.

 Screen_Cast_Summary.docThis document contains adaptions of Andrew Brown's screen casts.

 

 

 

Teachmeet Session Structure

 

Intro (7 mins)

Some examples of how blogs have been used for different gains:

Primary School specific:

 

• Pencaitland Primary School: Written by students, school news, what we did, class/school learning log (Two stars and a wish at Sandaig Poets)
• Whitecraig Primary School: shareable calendar
• Athelstaneford and Longniddry Primary Schools: The importance of digital image
• Ormiston Primary School: Slideshows, 3rd Party Apps
• Prestonpans Infants and Nursery: Using slideshows to tell digital stories
• Law Primary School: multimedia (audio, photos, text), school news, campaigns (Enterprise , Inventions, Eco Debate Podcast) Alan Sugaresque

 

English language specific:

 

 

Maths specific:

 

 

Science specific:

 

 

Teacher reflection:

 

 

 

Demo (30 mins)

Create a blog

Create your blog in eduBuzz.org

 

Writing a post

1. Formatting text
2. Adding a link
3. Choosing or creating a category
4. Adding a picture
5. Saving a post and publishing posts
6. Changing the look
7. Advanced stuff: Adding a page and looking at plugins

 

 

Play for 50 mins

Challenge Option 1: Find two blog posts written by someone else that you like. On your blog, write a post where you build on what those bloggers have said.

Challenge Option 2: Create the beginning of a creative writing task, using an image or video as your inspiration starter-for-ten.

 

Discuss and plan 20 mins

Some ideas to get started:

1. Post links to sites that cannot be used in school or are too slow.

 

 

Further links:

Blogging Basics: Setting up a blog and writing a post

Making Your Blog Look Good