These are slides I put together to highlight the ways in which I engage graduate students, most of whom are teachers, to learn about blogging, create blogs, and consider their use in their own teaching. This presentation was created to be used in conjunction with other materials for a presentation at the National Council of Teachers of English Convention for Commission members of the Council of Education Education, focused on "New Literacies, Technology, and Teacher Education." The title for the session is "New Tools or New Practices?: (Re) Inventing the Future of English Classroom Spaces."

1. Critical Inquiry and Collaboration:
Training Teachers to Join the Blogoshere
Council on English Leadership Full Workshop
Title: “New Tools or New Practices?: (Re)
Inventing the Future of English Classroom
Spaces,” Session F.14, National Teachers of
English Convention
Saturday 11/23/2013, 8:00 am – 9:15 am
Presenter for session:
“Training Teachers to Join the
Blogosphere”
Judy Arzt, Ph.D.
University of Saint Joseph
West Hartford, CT
A little bit about me:
Professor for School of Education, University of Saint Joseph, West
Hartford, CT
Some courses I teach: Integrating Technology & Literacy, Computer
Education, Education Research, First Year Composition.
Former high school English teacher
@judyarzt
https://twitter.com/JudyArzt
jarzt@usj.edu
judyarzt1@gmail.com

2. Overview for Session
• Training teachers to
blog: course project
• Content and format of
blogs
• Sample blogs and posts
• Reading others’ blogs
and responding
• Blogging with students
in the classroom
• Additional resources

3. Getting Started:
First Class
Students access a course blog and select any post to write a comment.
Students open their own account, write a post, and reply to a peer’s post.
Directions for course blogging project reviewed.
Course blog: Integrating Technology and Literacy
http://education584.blogspot.com/

4. The Course Blog: Integrating Technology and Literacy
Class blog is gateway to find blogs from prior and former students; see Class Blog tabs.

5. http://bit.ly/1fvyyRt
Example: Class Lists, hyperlinks to blogs

6. Project requires 8 posts and 8 replies, “Labels”used to categorize posts.

7. For quick
information
about some
course project,
check this Haiku
Deck: Course
Projects
View in Haiku Deck online:
http://bit.ly/1fvyIZ0

8. Early Course Project: Create & Embed Animoto (5% of course grade)
View online: “Out of My Mind” (book trailer)
View online: “Benefits of Graphic Novels”
One Animoto required. Most students create more.
http://bit.ly/1fvyIZ0
http://bit.ly/1fvz6GV
View online related Animoto:
“Communication Board Project Idea”
http://bit.ly/1fwlFHZ

9. Course Projects: submitted via blogs
Each student creates an Animoto to 1) use with student, and 2) gain introduction to
digital storytelling before using iMovie or MovieMaker
http://mrssimonsaysblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Animoto

10. Once introduced to Animoto, most students continue to use it with
their students to support topics in the curriculum.
http://mrssimonsaysblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/presenting-my-animotoproject.html

11. Digital Story Project
(20% of course grade)
Screen captures of 2 replies
http://bit.ly/1fvzGok
View blog post online: “Torrington Flood”

12. Digital Stories Created with iMovie or Movie Make (this sample done with iPhone)
http://bit.ly/17jto5S

13. Embed a Survey into Blog Post, Sharing Results in Another Post
http://bit.ly/1i1TzWi
http://bit.ly/1i1SNID

14. Embedding Products Created with Web 2.0 Tools (e.g., Go Animate)
Other Tools: Voki, Storybird,
VoiceThread, Popplet, Padlet
StoryKit app; see below slide
presentation for an overview
Blog post: http://bit.ly/1i1UNRa
http://goanimate.com/videos/0qIFjmRmNL48
http://slidesha.re/1i1VF8y

15. Interacting with Student Bloggers, 8th Grade Blogging Partners
http://kidblog.org/MrBoylens2013-14LA/

16. Interacting with Student Bloggers (7th Graders)
http://kidblog.org/MrBoylens2013-14LitClass/

17. Sample of some of the
classes that are
blogging together.
Excellent teacher
training to see extent of
the audience for
student blogs

18. Final Course Reflections: View Example on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRvWogyol9g

19. Implementing Blogging with Students (Kindergarten)
http://mykindergartencuties.blogspot.com/

20. Implementing Blogging with Students (3rd Grade)
http://newsfromroom15.blogspot.com/

21. Using Course Blog to Start Classroom Blog (1st Grade)
Note varied features added on sidebars.

22. Blog Posts Include Photos of Students at Work in the Classroom

23. Implementation of Student Blogs in Classroom Announced in Classroom
Blog: Using KidBlog (1st Graders)

24. Classroom Website Also Has Link to Students’ KidBlog Site

26. Another Example of Teacher Continuing to Blog
2 weeks after course ends: use of blog to embed a video about 4th grade class’s
Mystery Skype with another 4th grade class: connecting students in CT with students
in SC:
http://bit.ly/1i2mN7o

27. Starting a Blog for Sharing Books to Read, 2 years after
course ends in preparation for teaching abroad
http://stumpedstudentsbookshelf.com/

28. Additional Information about Blogging
http://bit.ly/1i2hSTV
http://bit.ly/1i2i4CK

29. Thanks for Stopping By
Questions: find me on Twitter or email me
jarzt@usj.edu
Judyarzt1@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JudyArzt
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by Derek K. Miller:
http://flickr.com/photos/penmachine/2282807007/