Web2 Showcase – Blogging Workshops
Graham Wegner: Blogging for Professional Learning
Thursday, 19th October, 2006 (Term 4 Week 1)
4.30-7.30 pm
Blogs are an amazing tool that educators world wide are utilising to connect with each other in a new form of Professional Learning. Through the use of this simple, relatively easy-to-use web tool, educators can reflect on their own practice, link to, read and learn from other educators world wide, compile resources, shape new ideas and contribute to others’ learning. Blogging can be a very public activity and is a great way of showcasing your own particular field and making connections to others with similar or parallel experiences.
In this workshop, you will learn how to set up your own professional blog using the highly regarded edublogs.org service. You will be shown the basics of posting, comments, management of your and some advice on how to participate in the global conversation. Learn how the use of categories and tags can provide structure to your blog and how other add-ons can enhance your blogging experience. Finally, spend some time exploring Bloglines, the centralised way of reading education blogs and add some teacher blogs of promise for your professional reading. So, what are you waiting for? If you’ve wanted to try blogging for yourself, this is the opportunity to get started.
Book online at: http://www.tsof.edu.au/courses/adult/
Al Upton: Blogging for Class Use
Monday 30th October, 2006 (Term 4 Week 3)
4.30-7.30 pm
Blogs are easy to establish and maintain. More than that, they engage and motivate … they excite! With R-12 cross-curricula applicability, students record, publish and share their learning online. They read and contribute to classmates’ contributions locally and globally. Connection, networking and reflection within student learning are paramount in 21st Century online education. In the hands-on component of this workshop, participants create and develop a blog that encourages them (and their students) to connect with their learning in a new way. A ‘just-in-time’ learning approach (participants develop resources for ‘tomorrow’s lesson’) introduces management tools and strategies that promise to respect existing commitments and limitations.
Blogs are effective with one or more computers in the classroom, in the computer suite and for using multimedia to publish work – text, pictures, podcasts (audio), slideshows and videos. Enjoy large rewards for a small investment of time whilst integrating ICTs into the curriculum. Leaders, representative students and groups of staff members from the same site are also encouraged to attend.
Participants are encouraged to bring class lists, a memory stick plus some pictures and URLs (web addresses) they are happy to share. Make them relevant and fun – it’s more relevant and fun that way!
Book online at: http://www.tsof.edu.au/courses/adult/
