So you have a blog! What now? What can you do with it? How could it be useful in Teaching and Learning or even social networking?
Regan Harding shares some of her thought provoking experiences with Youth at Risk and Generation Y students and the treasures within. While Kate Jones had a clear message, there’s no need to recreate the wheel, there are plenty of great media rich resources out there.
In these five short tasks, we’ll be exploring some of the techniques you can use to embed blogging into your work, engage your colleagues and your students…
Embedding Blogging into your Educational Spaces
In Phase one of the Technolog-e sessions, we looked at Educational uses of Blogs.
As part of this challenge, we will explore some of the techniques you can use to embed blogging into your work, whether that’s engaging colleagues, student, family or all of them (you get out of this as much as you put in) in the one space.
Your Challenge
It’s time to strengthen our network, collaborate more with our team, and email less.
So let’s start with our own Blog Challenge.
Note: One task a day (even a quick one) might be a bit much to ask of you, but you have some paid time for your role once a week. So I am asking you to take 10 - 15 mins to complete one task per week for five weeks.
To learn about the power of blogs, we need to start using them. There’s not much point me listing the blog challenges on our team wiki, so I’ll do it through my blog….
LearnScope Regional event focused on Youth and Social Networking in Education. Presentations came virtually via Adobe Connect and face to face. This resulted in some interesting discussion at lunch time about both the content and the delivery method.
As you know, I used a web tool called WuFoo to create a poll to determine times that would be best for you, for the Technolog-e Sessions. Once the form is created, a step-by-step process, WuFoo provides the code to embed the form into your blog (it’s just like adding media [slide.com] into your wikispace).
WuFoo tool also allows you to create basic, graphic reports for you to easily view the results.
