Presentation on instructional applications of a school/classroom website.
Sharing personal introduction off of her own website.
She wants the intro to be interesting and funny so kids will go home and get parents to visit.
Publishes website at every opportunity (notes home, on board, etc.)
Scribblelive allows comments. Can someone try this? I'd like to see how the moderation works. Thanks!
Thanks, Jonathan--very easy tool.
I will do that--it can be embedded into an existing blog, right?
Teacher's site has fairly detailed homework description posted every day.
Any idea about Edublogs (WP platform)?
Brigitte puts every thing she wants the kids to do for the day, including relevant links and resources.
Great! I'll hook that up before the next session I attend.
I do appreciate it--looks like a very easy to use, useful resource! I typically have used Coveritlive, but this is much easier to use.
Kids who are too embarrassed to ask questions need to be able to get sufficient details/information to work from the site.
Focus on home pages and activities pages.
Publish work to page and emphasize the international nature of this to the kids.
Importance of publishing kids' work to both the kids and the parents. Be sure to advertise heavily.
When adding links, pick 10 or 15 favorites, so list doesn't become too cumbersone.
Blog pages--wanted to call them journals, but kids liked the name blog, and were motivated to write in a blog.
Showing examples of student blog posts in math.
Students give detailed, written explanations of how they solved math problems (great idea).
Good way to see what processes students are going through mentally.
Says students don't even complain when they have to rewrite posts, because they are blogging.
Level of student detail is quite significant.
Link to her website: www.myweb4ed.com
Has blogging grade rubric posted on the site under "blogging information" --> "Grading rubric"
Copyright information included on the site.
"Know before you Owe"--comic strip created by school to explain copyright.
(Hmmm, that was in italics--not sure how I did that.)
Includes grade contract.
(Trying image upload tool)
Trying again.
Easy enough.
Session over. Now to learn how to move it to blog.
