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This curriculum web is intended to assist teachers in using blogging for educational purposes. This web is a great way to connect with students on
their interest level. Teaching today requires creativity to
be utilized as often as possible. It is important to try to
allow students to use a medium they are comfortable with. If
we as educators can work to ensure that assignments are not only
meaningful but interesting to the students, we will far exceed our
intended lesson. Students will be more inclined to work on an
assignment they enjoy and will learn in the process. Teachers should be able to use technology in their classrooms. The goals of this curriculum web are to have the teachers self discover blogging through a search, determine a need for a goal in their classroom, be creative in their use of the blog, learn to post on a blog, learn to comment on a blog, and to set up a blog with appropiately monitored settings depending on their use of the blog. This
curriculum web is intended for any educator
interested in using blogging in their classroom. This curriculum
web is intended for adult educators to gain knowledge about blogging,
to create relevant blogs that will connect to their intended
curriculum. Resources for the learner are widely available
through the internet at their choice of site. Some sites are
listed below in the resource section of this teaching guide. The use of a
computer is necessary.
Learner will need some basic knowledge of the use of the
Internet to be able to maneuver the blog site. The learner must
be interested in making this online journal appealing to their
students, in addition to being motivated themselves to make it a true
learning experience. This curriculum web explains blogs to the learner through some self-discovered research. The learner will learn to post comments to a blog, create a blog and publish posts to a blog. The learner will create a blog which will be used for the teachers intended subject area. The learner will be able to use this technolgy to incorporate technology into their classroom curriculum. Gather information on blogs Demonstrate knowledge of blog Demonstrate knowledge of comments Create blog page Demonstrate use of blogging for the classroom Demonstrate use of settings of blog as appropriate for the blog Develop a creative plan to use the blog in the classroom Implore the benefits of the use of technology to meet the needs of students in a teacher's classroom This curriculum web is intended to be completed by teachers interested in utilizing additional technology in their classroom while engaging their students in activities that are of interest to them. I will foster the learning process by encouraging the use of my blog and encouraging the learners to be creative in their uses. Activity 1 will focus on the general use of blogs. It would appear that the learners will need to gain some prior knowledge about blogs before utilizing them in their classrooms. The learners will learn to post a comment to my blog responding to what they learned in Activity 1. Activity 2 will focus on learning to create a blog. They will be brainstorming to come up with ideas for their blog to use in their classrooms. They will need to decide on the focus of their activity for their blog page. Activity 3 will focus on the teacher creating a blog. The teachers will explore the use of the settings of their blog in order to customize them for their intended use. The culminating activity will focus on the teachers applying their knowledge of the blog and setting up their blog for the purpose they have chosen and apply the correct settings. ~Computer available for all participants ~Internet access available ~Access to blogger.com ~An already existing email account (a school one will work) ~Paper and a writing utensil for note taking purposes.
The
attached rubric will allow for the learners to assess how well they did
in setting up their blog for the intended use. The learners will
provide feedback upon completion of this curriculum web regarding
usefulness of the content in addition to the overall design. I
will update the information as I see fit based on the evaluation by the
learners.
other free blog sites https://www.blogger.com/start http://www.livejournal.com/ http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Blog_Resources/ to help with setting up your blog check out this video url below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnploFsS_tY Blog: abbreviation for a web log, dated and time stamped material logged on the web; online journal URL: the address where things can be located on the web Post: the owner of a blog may publish a post to their blog, it is their question or stand on an issue that they are allowing those viewers to read. Many times the intent is to receive feedback and or answers to questions as they are posted. Comment: a response to a post on a blog; comments are often published to the blog to allow others to view your response to the post.
Moderate Comments: to control the
comments that will be posted to the web; this can be done in
the settings of the blog.
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