Welcome to the 'Online Web2.0 course' for teachers!

Week 1 - Blogging

The big ideas: Blogging is a tool to enhance classroom writing, participation and reflection. Blogging is a tool for connected learning, conversation and developing learning communities.
This week's task:
Start a blog to record some of your experiences throughout the course. Create a post about one of the following:
- Your experience setting up your blog.
- Something that you are doing with your students.
- What you know about blog use in classrooms.
- Feel free to blog about something different!
Why keep a blog as part of this course? Resource

Professional reading/viewing	Other Resources & Examples
Start here -What is blogging (A three minute video explanation) 'Telling the new story' - Video - Kathy Cassidy talks about blogging with an infant grade. (8mins) Blogging basics (website) More blogging basics (website) What blogging does for students (website)	A huge list of teacher and school blogs. A great place to explore how other educators use blogs. http://supportblogging.com/Links+to+School+Bloggers Video tutorials on how to use a blog Sample blogging permission note (adapted from Mildura West PS)
Add to the discussion about blogs!	Where to get a blog ...
Access the forum and let us know your new blog address. Ask any questions you have about them. Need help - ask away!	http://edublogs.org http://globalteacher.org.au http://globalstudent.org.au http://21classes.com

A list of participant blogs! Resource
A list of recent blog posts by participants of this course file
Simple screencasts to get started!
Use these if you are having trouble setting up.
Set up Edublogs in 5 minutes Resource
Posting to the blog Resource
Adding a voki to your blog Resource
Add many students to 'one' blog Resource
20 reasons for students to blog file