How to Develop a Blogging Platform for Students & Teachers
Presented by Kim Cofino at:
- Learning 2.011, September 2011, Shanghai, China
- NESA Fall Training Institute, October 28-29, 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- EARCOS Teacher’s Conference, March 2012, Bangkok, Thailand
Presentation Overview
A blogging portal is a great way to help make the learning environment in your classroom or school transparent to all stakeholders while connecting the whole community. This presentation will share the vision and implementation process, as well as concrete examples from Yokohama International School’s successful blogging portal, The Learning Hub
Slideshow
Resources
- Mix and Match: Creating a Blended Learning Environment with WordPress and GoogleApps
- YIS Teacher Blogging Expectations (Secondary)
- It’s Not Just a Tool: Technology as Environment
- Obvious to You, Amazing to Others(video)
- YIS Learning Hub blogging portal
Connecting Parents
- Moving a Community Forward
- Engaging the Parent Community
- Parent Technology Coffee Mornings: Year 2 Recap
- The Parent Connection
- Parent Coffee Morning a Success!
- YIS Community Learning Blog
- Bridging the Gap
Connecting Students
- Creating a Blogging Scope and Sequence
- Blogging Rubric from Clarence Fisher
- Fantastic stack of bookmarks from David Truss
Connecting Teachers
- COETAIL Comes to Japan!
- Planning a Year of Technology PD
- Sustaining Change: The Next Level of PD
- Tech Tidbits: Increasing Teachers Digital Efficiency
- Take Your Faculty SpeedGeeking
General Resources about blogging
- The Art of Blogging | Inspiration
- The Blogging Dilemma – YouTube
- teachwatts: Fun Ways to Pimp Your Blog
- Learning with ‘e’s: Seven reasons teachers should blog
- ELT notes: Why I Write
- Six Reasons Why Kids Should Know How to Blog | MindShift
- 5HR @ NIST » Blogging Rubric
- Challenge Yourself to Blog
- Blogs Wikis Docs Chart
- Educational-Blogging – How To Teach Commenting Skills
- Computers in Education Group of South Australia – Edublogs
- Rubric for Assessing Reflective Writing
- The Reading Teacher : May 2009 : Abstract of HOT Blogging: A Framework for Blogging to Promote Higher Order Thinking
- Blogs for Learning
- Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis… / Using Blogs in the Classroom
- Dekita.org: P2P EFL/ESL Pedagogy and Technology
- Educational Blogging (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
- CITE Journal Article
- EduBlog Insights » Blog Archive » Blogs and Pedagogy
- Grammar Girl :: How to Write a Great Blog Comment