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Your Passport to Educational Blogging: Your Passport to Educational Blogging Steve Dembo DiscoveryEducatorNetwork.com Steve_Dembo@Discovery.com teach42.com
Who am I?: Who am I?
Slide3: What’s different?
Slide4: What’s different?
Slide5: What’s new?
Slide6: What’s new?
Slide7: Aggregation
Slide8: Blogging done right
Slide9: Blogging done right
Slide10: Blogging done right
Slide11: 28% of children 12-17 have created their own blog
50% of online teens read blogs
59% of online teens have created content for the internet
Pew Internet & American Life Project survey of teens and parents, December 2007 The Students
Slide12: Finding a blog engine Blogger.com
Slide13: Finding a blog engine ClassBlogmeister.com
Slide14: Finding a blog engine Edublogs.org
Slide15: Finding a blog engine DiscoveryEducatorNetwork.com
Slide16: Finding a blog engine
Slide17: Your colleagues
Professional development ideas
Committee notes
Lesson ideas and resources
Celebrate successes
Mentoring
Communicate with…
Slide18: Your Parents
Classroom events
Newsletter
Homework help
Extra resources
Dates and reminders
Communicate with…
Slide19: Your Students
Post writing prompts for students to respond to
Provide online readings
Share extra resources for current lessons
Showcase great examples of student work
Post discussion questions for students to respond to
Document progress through a unit
Provide students a place for students to post questions about nightly readings
Do your newsletter daily Communicate with… Ideas by Anne Davis http://anvil.gsu.edu/EduBlogInsights/2004/10/05#a668
Slide20: David Warlick – davidwarlick.com/2cents
Slide21: Steve Dembo – Teach42.com
Slide22: Steve Dembo blog.discoveryeducation.com/Digital_Passports
Slide23: Joyce Valenza SchoolLibraryJournal.com/blogs.html
Slide24: Christine Tomasino– efriendlylearning.com
Slide25: Dan Schmit - Intelligenic.com/blog
Slide26: Eric Langhorst – SpeakingOfHistory.blogspot.com
Slide27: SupportBlogging.com
Slide28: Discovery Educator Network
Slide29: Subscribing
Slide30: Bloglines
``: `` Finding more reading material
Slide32: Finding more reading material Technorati.com Blogsearch.google.com
Slide33: A few tips Don’t surf more, surf more effectively
Make it personal
Make it a habit
Set realistic goals
Share what you find!
Your Passport to Educational Blogging: Your Passport to Educational Blogging Steve Dembo DiscoveryEducatorNetwork.com Steve_Dembo@Discovery.com teach42.com