No. 1 - Blogging
For Thing #1, you are going to create your own blog, which will be used to reflect on each of your tasks throughout this journey. Let's get started!
A blog is a on-line journal. It displays the writing of a given author around the topic of their choice. Please watch Blogs in Plain English and take some time to look at the examples below. It will give you a better understanding of what a blog is and how students, staff, and even entire schools use blogs to share their thinking with the world.
Free Technology for Teachers - Ideas for technology integration in education
Look at My Happy Rainbow - Kindergarten teacher
Sweeney Math - High school math teacher
Two Writing Teachers - Two teachers, 565 miles apart, devoted to the teaching of writing
iLearn Technology - edublog about integrating technology into the classroom
The Longfellow Ten - collaborative middle school stop-motion project
There are a variety of blogging platforms out there. We will be using Blogger (aka blogspot), which is a Google application. If you do not already have a Gmail account, you will need to create one. This video will guide you through the account setup steps.
If you already have a Gmail account, you are ready to create your blog.
This document walks you through the steps to creating a blog in Blogger. The document is in Google Docs, so you will be prompted to login to your account.
To complete Thing #1:
Setup your own blog and add your first post. In your first post, say hello and reflect on your initial thoughts on blogging in education. Also, it is VERY important that you e-mail me your blog link at brooke.storms@kentwoodps.org.