Blog Uses

Here are some of the changes that are occurring more frequently and on a consistent basis in most blogs of the school:

•    Teachers are discovering the convenience and possibility of extended learning opportunities by adding age appropriate links to their sidebar.

•    Teachers are loving the WordPress blog Image gallery features. The blog is becoming a digital scrapbook of their school year.

•    Embedding slideshows via slide.com , PowerPoints via Slideshare.net, stories via Voicethread.com, movies recorded with flip cameras and edited with MovieMaker

•    Learning about keeping students safe, by not posting images coupled with their names, not mentioning last names anywhere.

•    Using the SmartBoard software to take screenshots and then upload to blog with a link to the website.

•    Using an event calendar in their sidebar to alert parents

•    Creating questions of the week and each student comments (signed in as teacher) identifying themselves with a class number

•    Highlighting events happening in the classroom during the week

•    Creating student usernames/password (Upper grades) to encourage questions on the blog

•    Adding rubrics of special projects

•    Scanning in of student notes for review purposes

•    Adding categories to blog posts when posting for multiple classes or grade levels

•    Informing students, parents and colleagues of upcoming community events

•    Keeping track of inter mural competitions

•    Homework helpers & Quiz reviews

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