Blogs


 * You Need A Blog! **

What is a blog? It's a writable web page. It allows you to publish text and photographs for a wide audience. It allows others to make comments on your "posts". It's a lot of fun and much more attractive than a piece of paper stapled to your classroom wall. This short video gives you a fuller picture. media type="youtube" key="NN2I1pWXjXI" height="364" width="445" Here is a link to one of our class blogs:  [|E_xplorers @ Malfroy.]



**Why Use Classblogmeister?** You saw that blogs are made to serve particular groups. Unlike some of the other options, Classblogmeister has been made for schools and students. It has the ability to make it secure so that not only are you attracting the required audience, but you are protecting yourself, your students and your school from unnecessary and unwanted commentary.

Classblogmeister allows for a student blog to be "orphaned" from this year's class and reattached to a new home class blog the next. It becomes a record of learning for that student as he or she moves through the school.

It can be accessed from home easily and monitored by the teacher to ensure that the student not only has regular posts but can be supported when necessary. media type="youtube" key="al9aBUTx4_g" height="364" width="445"

So let's make a blog! One thing I love about C21st pedagogy is that there is no need to reinvent the wheel! Here again is David Warlick, the creator of Classblogmeister: media type="youtube" key="al9aBUTx4_g" height="364" width="445" Lorraine Watchhorn has made a great set of notes to help us out on the Rotorua Lakes Cluster site: http://rellco.wikispaces.com/Classblogmeister

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