Introduction to Blogging for Educators I delivered this presentation as a Lunch n Learn for The Centre for Global Education on March 11th, 2014. You can find the archive at http://rhondajessen.com/?p=4854. You can find out more about The Centre for Global Education at http://cge.tiged.org/.

1. Blogging 101
Rhonda Jessen
RhondaJessen.com

2. Types of Blogs
Micro – Twitter
Personal – Margaret Powers
Collections – Edutopia
Journals - Hybrid Pedagogy
Digital platform – The Globe and Mail

3. K-12 Examples
Classes Yollis, Huzzah, List of classes
with Digital Portfolios
Teachers Kathy Cassidy
Schools
Yokohama International School
Parkland School Division’s 184 Days
of Learning

4. Things to know
What is a blog
Private vs. Public
Self Hosting vs. Hosted
Popular platforms: Blogger, WordPress,
Edublogs, Kidblog
Edublog’s Guide to setting up a
personal blog

5. Digital Citizenship
9 Elements
Kathy Cassidy’s guidelines
Edudemic’s Teachable Moments
Verena Robert’s Graduated Walled Garden
Safer Internet Day - February 11th
Verena Robert’s Graduated Walled Garden Approach

6. Terms
Posts
Pages
Tags
Categories
Widgets
Tech Web’s Blogging Dictionary

7. Creating a New Post
WYSIWYG vs. HTML
Hyperlinks
Media
Preview
Publish
Langwitches Visible Thinking Routines
for Blogging
http://langwitches.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Visible-Thinking-Routine-See-Think-Wonder.jpg

8. Commenting
Conversations vs. broadcasting
Why Kathy Cassidy’s Grade 1s Blog
Sue Waters Commenting Counts
Trolls
Spam

9. Classroom Blogs
Edublog’s Guide to Setting Up
Classroom Blogs
Communication with parents
Safety/Citizenship
Langwitches K-12 Blogging Framework
Langwitches on Assessing Blogs
State of Educational Blogging 2012

10. Resources
Langwiches Blogging with Students
Sue Waters Getting More out of Student
Blogging
Comments for Kids
Blogging Help from Edublogs
Carolyn Durley’s Ideas for Blogging
Teaching Writing via Blogging

11. Challenges
Student Blogging Challenge
Edublogs Teacher Challenge
Blog Action Day October 16th
Smart Student Blog Contest
Write Our World

12. This presentation: slidesha.re/1ng5y7y
Rhonda Jessen
RhondaJessen.com
@rljessen