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I blog, you blog, (we)blog
Welcome to the blogosphere
What is a blog?!?!?!
• Blog= web log – Traditionally used as an online diary
Blogging
Why do I want a blog?!?!?!
• Motivation
– Watch this, and then think how your pupils, colleagues and the parents will react…
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The last 100 visitors to the Spanish blog
Why use blogs?
• Motivation- make the world your classroom wall
– Learning no longer confined to exercise books
•Who is the audience for work which goes into an exercise book?
- Truly global perspective
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Why use blogs?• Assessment for Learning
– Comment function allows peer assessment using “Two Stars and a Wish formula”
= 2 positive elements
+ 1 element to work at next time
– Self-assessment as pupils comment on their own work and thus self target set.
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Why use blogs?
•Enhances all 4 skill areas
- listening, speaking reading and writing
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Why use blogs?
• Writing
– Increased motivation- will be viewed by more than just the teacher
– Very obvious to all when their peers’ work is missing from the blog
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Why use blogs?
• Reading
– Principal skill gain- pupils constantly reading each other’s work
– Allows free choice of which sections to read
– Aids pupil independence
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Why use blogs?
• Speaking
– Oral vocab lists to aid pronunciation
– Pupil and teacher generated podcasts
– Speaking tests / exercises
=learning opportunity rather than just an assessment opportunity
– Provides a platform for pupil-made videos
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•www.gizmoz.com
•www.voki.com
- Pupils write scripts
-Peer assess
-Practise
-Record
-High level of enjoyment
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Year 2 and 3- same rules apply
1)Wrote scripts
2)Peer-assessed and improved by adding conjunctions
3)Practised together
4)Recorded
5)Listened to each other’s and gave a mark out of 5 for accent and detail
Why use blogs?
• Listening
– To podcasts
– To videos (pupil created, music, adverts, football commentaries etc)
– To peers’ work
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On the blog this is a listening exercise, but...
•Pupils had to write scripts
•Peer-assessment
•Pupils read the script out and record it
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Music video
- great cultural input
- an interesting homework to end topic of body parts
- Year 8 pupils were mostly humming the song round school for next few days
Who provides the blog facility?
• TypePad - www.typepad.com
– Easiest for inserting fun stuff (provider that I use)
• Blogger - www.blogger.com
• Edublogs - www.edublogs.org
• Wordpress - www.wordpress.org
• Many, many more…
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How to find out new ideas?
- keep reading other blogs!
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Google Reader
- Uses RSS feeds to update you when your favourite blogs have changed
Why use blogs?
• Providing access to other resources
– Easy to access links to useful websites
– Resources such as PowerPoint or Word documents can be made available
– Motivation
– Assessment for learning
– Safe, monitored conditions for work on the web
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Objectives• During the following session, you will be able
to;
1) Adapt the design of your blog
2) Make your first post
3) Set up Comment Moderation
4) Create a link to another site
5) Investigate other tools to use with your blog
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