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SACS PD Web 2.0

Let’s play: hands-on self-paced discovery

of Web 2.0 tools - Week 1
 

Week 1 - About Web 2.0 and starting a blog

Why would someone want to write a blog? There could be many reasons. It is essentially a form of communication and lends itself to sharing opinions and news, exploring ideas and generating discussion on related topics of interest. You can post notes, lectures, links, images and video clips.

View the Did you know 4.0 video to see the extent of convergence of technologies. Reflect on the influence of these changes on society and our students.
 

Blogging
 

Blogging Discovery Exercise

To begin creating your blog:

1.   Visit the Wordpress site.

2.   Follow the steps to create a blog.

3.   After you have activated the blog (by replying to an email), you can login and get started. Use the 'My dasboard' area of the blog. You can add a background template of your choice to the blog and also any widgets you like.

4.   Add your blog to your favourites.

5.   Write down your blog address. It will be http://(yourlogin).wordpress.com
 

Blogging Discovery Resources

Scott Leslie - Matrix of some uses of blogs in education

Lucacept – Blogs for classroom use

How to edublog v.2

Mike Temple’s Edublogs tutorial

For next week, bring an image or two of your own that you may like to post on your blog.