1. Welcome to Educational Blogging An effective way to communicate and manage many aspects of the K6 classroom

2. A little about me. Peter Rawsthorne, M Ed IT (candidate) Parent –Ana Rose (Grade 5) –Lucas (8 months) Educator –5 years professional experience –Many times teaching in my daughters classroom Technologist –16 years professional experience From the west coast –Married a Newfoundlander (smartest thing I ever did)

3. What are we doing today? Review of the reading What is a blog? What is it good for? The key elements of a blog Designing a blog

4. Clear like mud. Reflect on the readingthe reading Rate your understanding on a scale of 0 to 10; where 0 is non-existent and 10 is excellent. Write your score on a sticky. Post your score on the scale.

5. Let’s look at a few Blogs? One Trick Pony – Bernie Dodge http://webquest.org/bdodge/ Weblogg-ed - The Read/Write Web in the Classroom http://www.weblogg-ed.com/ Stephen Downes - OLDaily http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm BBC News - Education http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/default.stm

6. Some K12 Blogs Mr. Kuropatwa's Classes Fall 2005 http://dkuropatwa.suprglu.com/ Ellie's (Grade 7) Math Blog http://grade7math.blogspot.com/ Mrs. Greenwald's First Grade Blog http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/blog/greenwald/ The Counselors' Corner http://mabryonline.org/blogs/counselors/

7. What was that ? So what ? Now what ?

8. The Blog vs. Technology X Form two groups (one on each side of the room). One group will describe the technology. The other will describe how the blog differs from that technology. Groups will alternate back and forth between these two tasks. The technologies will become increasingly difficult to describe. Each group has 30 seconds to huddle and come up with their description.

9. Blogs vs. Email

10. Blogs vs. Websites

11. Blogs vs. Instant Message

12. Blogs vs. Podcasting

13. Blogs vs. Newsgroups

14. Blogs vs. Wikis

15. Who is your Audience? Why does it Matter?

16. What is the context? Why does it Matter?

17. Activity: Why use blogs? Read over this list of blog ideaslist of blog ideas (same list as your were asked to print from the website) Choose one and reflect upon why it is a good idea, or not a good idea for the K6 classroom, school, parents, teacher, etc... Pair up Share your thoughts within your pair You have 15 minutes to complete this task Be prepared for a follow-up activity

18. Parts of a blog 1. Browser window 2. Header 3. Posts 4. Search 5. Calendar 6. Additional pages 7. Archives 8. Categories 9. Blogroll 10. Administration

19. Design your Blog Get into groups of three Take all you have learned today and design a blog. Use what is described on the handout to prompt your design.the handout Draw the blog on paper, add descriptions of audience and context.

20. Exit Activity Write on one side of the card what worked well. On the other side of the card write what didn’t work well. Leave your cards at the front as you leave. Remember: Next class is in the LAB, E5006