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Welcome to the Introduction to Blogging for Schools course.

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Introductions

  • Go to the blog/forum below, click on 'Add a new discussion topic' and write a short piece to introduce youself. Please include your email address.
  • Forum Course Blog
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Blogs

Let's look at some blogs
  • Below are a number of links to blogs.
    Look at each blog and then answer the questions which follow.
  • Resource Guardian Unlimited Blogs
  • Resource Max's Dog-Blog
  • Resource The BBC Comedy Blog
  • Resource Jis Haiverin

  • In the blog/forum below, write what similarities there are in the blogs you have seen and what differences there are between them.

  • Forum What is a blog?

  • Read this brief guide to blogging from the Guardian.

  • Resource A Teacher's Guide to Blogging

  • Here is a page from LTScotland's website about blogging.

  • Resource What is a blog? - LTScotland

  • OPTIONAL
    "Coming of Age" is an excellent electronic book which has contributions from many well known educationalists such as Alan November and introduces 'new' technologies such as blogging, wikis, podcasting, social bookmarking, etc. You might want to read the sections on blogging.
  • Resource Coming of Age booklet
  • The Summer 2006 edition of the GTC's 'Teaching Scotland' contains several articles on educational blogging written by Scottish bloggers.
  • Resource Teaching Scotland Summer 2006
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School Blogs

We'll now have a look at some school blogs. You'll see them used for a variety of different purposes. Think about what you might want to do with a blog.

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Sandaig Primary School Blogs

We'll now look at a school blog in a little more detail. The school I've chosen is Sandaig Primary in Glasgow as it has a range of different types of blog and was one of the first schools in Scotland to embrace blogging.

  • Watch the short video about Sandaig Primary School blogs.
  • Resource Sandaig Primary School blogs - video
  • Now visit the website itself and add some comments.
  • Resource Sandaig Primary School

  • OPTIONAL
    John Johnston, class teacher at Sandaig, has written an article about blogging at his school. The school has done much more since the article was published in December 2005 but it is still an excellent outline of the reasons for blogging and the practicalities involved.

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Using Blogs

Some ways in which a school could use blogs.

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What are the strengths of a blog?

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Setting up a blog


  • We will use a free service for education provided by www.edublogs.org. This uses the WordPress software.

    The video below takes you through the setting up a blog which allows pupil posting but has everything - posts and comments - moderated by the teacher.

    There is also a summary which can be printed out.

    A good way of using the video is to have it running in one window while you follow the instructions in another. You can pause the video whenever you want.
  • Resource Creating a blog video

  • Here is a summary of what to do to set up a blog on www.edublogs.org.

  • Resource Edublog Guide

  • Here is a guide to WordPress from http://landrumms.edublogs.org/2006/05/09/edublogs-workshop/
    which covers much more than the basic things that we've covered in the video and summary.

  • Resource WordPress Guide
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Your Turn


  • Go to http://www.edublogs.org/ and set up a blog yourself. Then create a second blog so that you have a pupil username.
    Make sure that you set everything up correctly so that you can moderate all posts and comments. Add an initial post.

    When you have finished, email me - awatson@aberdeencity.gov.uk -
    • the url of the blog
    • the pupil username
    • the pupil password
    and I'll add some posts and comments.
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Finding an audience

 

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Keeping connected with RSS


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Podcasting

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Where now?


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Course Evaluation

  • Please add your comments about the course to the blog/forum below.
    It would be useful to know what you liked /disliked, anything you think should be added/removed/changed, etc.
  • Forum Blogging Evaluation
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