blogging on a collaborative basis
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Blogging on a Collaborative Basis
Online resources: http://bit.ly/blogcollab
Taking a look at……..• Why blog on a collaborative basis?• Blogging as a class• Blogging platforms/tools that allow collaborative or group blogging• Teachers, community and students as collaborative bloggers• Some options for global blogging including Quad blogging• Essential widgets• Walk through some collaborative blogs• How to ensure success, readership and ongoing interaction and input.
Do you have a blog?
What is a blog?
• A journal• Outlet for opinions and ideas• Showcase for learning and achievements• Reflective entries• Platform that allows embedding or linking to multi-media• Digital portfolio• ….and more (see my slideshare)
Why?
• Build collaborative skills – essential in the 21st century• Blogging provides a real audience which may be global• Combine many brains, thoughts, experiences • Builds a rich resource• Improves writing skills
And more……
• Provides a great shared learning experience• Develop empathy, understanding, build broader perspectives• Fun, motivating• Gain new perspectives• Think differently• Learn about the space that other people live in
Tools for blogging
Blogs can be……..
• Individual (personal)•Teacher•Student•Class•Collaborative
Let’s explore!
The Daring Librarian….
http://www.thedaringlibrarian.com/
Pernille Ripp’s class – collaborative blog
https://kidblog.org/class/MrsRippsClass/posts
……Lurk About!
Check out class blogs
http://edublogawards.com/
http://edublogawards.com/
The Student Blogging Challengehttp://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/
Teacher blogging challengehttp://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/
Cross Culture blogging
1. Introduce Yourself2. What kind of technology do you use in the home?3. Free topic4. Global warming5. Free topic6. Illegal immigration etc
• There are plenty of illegal immigrants in australia and each day many are sent home. illegal immigrants tend to have a non valid visa. some people who come here dont have a visa at all. Illegal immigrants come from all over the world. what happens to all of the illegal immigrants once they have been found out is they get relocated back to the country they came from.
Melissa // Oct 18th 2008 at 2:30 pm • That is what happens here in the United States as well. Visas are
really a big part of it because visas take a long time to get, and then people just come illegally. Where are the illegal immigrants that come to Australia from?
Juliet Pham // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm • How do you feel about the fact that the illegal immigrants are
relocated? Do you believe that it’s fair? I don’t think that it is. I really think that it would depend on the reason. Are the immigrants doing any harm really? That’s pretty interesting that Australia does have illegal immigrants because I never thought a place like Australia would because of the fact that it doesn’t have any countries near it or any land bridges.
Travis Bugge // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm • how do they get there? are they snuck on a plane or something?
fur us, its pretty much peole crossing the border, or swimming over here. which part of austrailia do they go to?
http://quadblogging.net/
Twitter#comments4kids
#ebshare
@Edublogs #quad103
The importance of comments
Thorney’s blog
Josh’s post -linkup with a teacher in Boston
Today we linked up with a teacher in Boston. Some things i learnt while talking to her today were
• She teaches computing• She lives in Boston• They have 19 computers in the classroom
Response from Lorraine Leo in Boston• Hi Josh,
Thanks very much for the post about my presentation to your class. I really enjoyed meeting with all of you and appreciated your comments in the text chat. I have never been to Australia so it is always exciting to have the chance to visiti there virtually and to speak with young people there.I enjoyed learning about Hawkesdale too. It is interesting that both of our schools have under 400 students. I learned that students in your school like days when they can dress out of uniform just like the students here. I was amazed at some of the wildlife that you have around you. I’ve only seen kangaroos in a zoo and I’ve never seen a koala–ever!!The other fascinating thing about Australia is that even though we are thousands of miles away, we speak the same language (with different accents). I like the Australian accent.I was reading through some of the posts on your blog and was interested in learning about these little cartoons that you are creating. I haven’t seen that website so right after I write to you, I’m going to check it out.Thanks again for sharing. I hope that as I end my day here, you have a terrific start to yours’.
Student BlogsVesnaSophie
EmersonKiara
Widgets• Clustr maps, Who’s amung us, Feedjit live traffic feed,
revolvr maps• Flag counter• Avatar – make your own, or use lego avatar or
portrait avatar etc• Badges – eg code given by network memberships• Weather pixie• Clock• See Top widgets for the sidebar from the edublogger
http://huberman10.blogspot.com.au/
Blog Action Dayhttp://www.blogactionday.org/
Tips
About Me/Us page
Netiquette• No IM or txt language anywhere (looking for professionalism plus
possible need for translators/interpretation)• Always reply and thank a commentor or goto their blog and add a
comment• No bullying/no negative comments• Always write for any audience – ages, cultures, beliefs etc• Keep cybersafe at all times
Where to startRead blogs
Add commentsKISS
Start with your own blog
Progress to class blog
Individual student blogs
Collaboratively blog with another class
Other tools for collaborative writing
• OneNote• PiratePad• Google Docs• Wikispaces• etc
Questions????
eFind MeAnne Mirtschin• [email protected]• Twitter: http:www.twitter.com/murcha• Skype id: anne.Mirtschin
Google document link of resourceshttp://bit.ly/blogcollab