The document discusses reasons for blogging, including encouraging guided learning opportunities, modeling appropriate communication, and extending conversations beyond the classroom. It notes that blogging can help teachers act like digital natives by meeting students online where they learn. Blogging allows for short, regular updates across multimedia in one place for multiple audiences like parents, students, and colleagues. It is easily monitored and shared, and provides a way to store ideas and showcase student success. The document outlines best practices for blogging such as defining the audience, sharing about yourself, reading other blogs, showing classroom happenings, and highlighting what works.

1. Blogging 101

2. Why Blog?

3. Encourage
provide guided opportunities in a safe
environment
Why Blog?

4. Model
help students learn the appropriate way
to communicate
Why Blog?

5. Extend
the conversation and learning outside of
classroom
Why Blog?

6. Can help us act like
DIGITAL natives/residents
Why Blog?

7. Helps us meet our students
where they learn
Why Blog?

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9. Why Blog?
• Short, regular updates
• Information collected in one resource
• Can include multimedia
• Multiple audiences
– Parents
– Students
– Colleagues

10. Why Blog?
• Easily monitored via subscription
• Easy as writing an e-mail
• Feedback via comments
• Searchable text
• Share resources, ideas and student success
• Store great ideas

11. BestPractice1:
Define your audience
Graduate colleagues & future employers

12. Best Practice 2:
Tell us a little about yourself

13. Best Practice 3:
Read and share other blogs

14. Best Practice 4:
Share the happenings of your
classroom

15. Best Practice 5:
Show us, don’t tell us.

16. Best Practice 6:
Share student Success.

17. Best Practice 7:
Be honest, bE sincere.

18. Best Practice 8:
Get shared, bookmarked, Tweeted, cited

19. Best Practice 9:
Share what works.

20. Best Practice 10:
Content over aesthetics. Content over tools.

21. Why Blog?

22. Why Blog?