What a blog is Teachers’ blogs Students’ blogs Safe blogging Easy blog reading Setting up a blog

Traditionally used as an online journal Combines text, images, videos, links Allows discussion through comments NOT a social network e.g. Facebook, Ning NOT a website Teachers’ blogs Students’ blogs

Traditionally used as an online journal

Combines text, images, videos, links

Allows discussion through comments

NOT a social network e.g. Facebook, Ning

NOT a website

Teachers’ blogs

Students’ blogs

http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/ To keep in touch with local and national picture: New courses, who is doing what locally... To support colleagues’ development: To cascade good practice To reflect on my own practice

To keep in touch with local and national picture:

New courses, who is doing what locally...

To support colleagues’ development:

To cascade good practice

To reflect on my own practice

http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/ Made a great number of professional contacts that supported my own development and that of my colleagues ; Help me re-affirm what my core purposes are ; Developed my ICT skills and ability to quickly adapt to new ICT tools.

Made a great number of professional contacts

that supported my own development and that of

my colleagues ;

Help me re-affirm what my core purposes are ;

Developed my ICT skills and ability to quickly

adapt to new ICT tools.

http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/

Provide a real purpose: audience Quiet way to praise students Support literacy development Assessment for learning Enhances listening, speaking, reading and writing skills Facilitates student access to resources http://mrsjoneslanguageresources.blogspot.com/

Provide a real purpose: audience

Quiet way to praise students

Support literacy development

Assessment for learning

Enhances listening, speaking, reading

and writing skills

Facilitates student access to resources

http://mrsjoneslanguageresources.blogspot.com/

Introduce competition between parallel classes Post questions Magazines Multimedia projects Collaborative writing Creative writing Exchanging information with link schools

Introduce competition between parallel

classes

Post questions

Magazines

Multimedia projects

Collaborative writing

Creative writing

Exchanging information with link schools

Agree rules with students: respect, language... First names only All posts and comments moderated by teacher Use avatars Check rules for publishing pictures

Rss feeds: http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/ My own Teacher blog http://mrsjoneslanguageresources.blogspot.com/ My own MFL blog for students http://www.dougbelshaw.com/ high profile blog by history / ICT teacher Doug Belshaw http://elearnr.edublogs.org/ Doug also runs ICT insets for his colleagues http://www.geographyalltheway.com/ Geography blog http://www.geogtastic.blogspot.com/ Geography blog by Miss Ellis http://mrscossu.blogspot.com/ new mfl blog that has just been set up for students http://historytech.wordpress.com/ History blog by American teacher http://skambalu.edublogs.org/tag/web-20/ Susan Kambalu’s blog (RS teacher) http://www.nodehillre.typepad.com/ Nodehill School RS blog http://rs.rainhammark.com/ Rainham Mark Grammar School’s RS blog http://stmre.edublogs.org/ RE at St Thomas More’s School http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/ Joe dale’s MFL blog