This document provides information about blog resources and tools for staff development. It lists the login information for a Kidblog account, recommends using Gravatar and Posterous for teachers' accounts, and suggests embedding LiveBinder, using Audacity/Garageband for audio, and creating avatars or video tours of blogs. It also offers ideas for student blogging projects like a 365 day photo journal. Recommended educational tools include Brainpop, Voicethread, and video/screencasting options. Top blogs and bloggers in education are recognized.

1. Blogging Staff Development Links
Kidblog.org Link: http://bit.ly/stemblog
My passwd: AOL
Kids/Teachers’ Psswd: stem
Want to keep password the same as Brainpop
Put all the teachers’ names in
Can’t comment on my Blogger
But make a posterous test blog for them and test at school
Teacher’s task – gravatar, get a gmail account – using blogger
Posterous account – email something to posterous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-JjaOgIRBo&feature=youtu.be&a
Tools: Embed LiveBinder into blog for websites
Audacity or Garageband: welcome parents/teachers/students to your blog with a audio file with a pic
of your avatar or voki
AVATAR TIPS:
1. http://brittgow.globalteacher.org.au/ (Britt Glow’s blog – Australia)
2. MS Paint, Photobooth, Picassohead, MS Clipart,
Video tour of your blog or a voicethread
365 Day Project – give a student the camera – tell them to take a picture of anything they want and
write about it. You will be amazed of what you will be able to look over ---log of the school year.
Voicethread, voki
Brainpop
Issue of a powerpoint slide – read a book online isee a brown bear looking at me. Enchanted learning
$20/yr
Video – Promethean board video – handwriting one I did
Video – YouTube – Download it will it show, TeacherTube, other sources
Powerpoint video – digital storytelling
STMath- using Screentoaster
Scribd for newsletter, spelling list, field trip info, homework assignmet
Widgets: twitter feed
Have a guest blogger appear on your blog = How cool
One post – Ask the kids what tools they think are best , why and how do they use it They could do a

2. screen cast.
2nd post – What would or school look like if no books just technology for learning what would it look
like be like, etc
Standard-based learning and technology – if you are doing a good job with your teaching practices and
students need to learn the verbage to pass the test. Teach what is important to learning.
Web tools can be use multiple uses and subject matter.
Blogging – writing standards. Have blogs that are with that particular standard – expository,
narrative, grammar, etc. whatever are you addressing.
Wordpress, Edublog, blogger, pbspaces
BES Blog – Berthoud Elementary School – Parent Resources on Blogging
http://blogs.berthoudelementary.com/parents/
BrainPopJr – What is a blog?
http://www.brainpopjr.com/artsandtechnology/technology/blogs/
BrainPop - Blogs
http://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/blogs/
2010 Edublog Awards
Best Class Edublog 2010
The winners of the Best Class Edublog 2010….
http://edublogawards.com/2010awards/best-class-edublog-2010/
1.Winner: Billings Middle School Tech Class Blog
2.First Runner Up: Mrs. Yollis’ Classroom Blog (B)
3.Second Runner Up: The Blog Dogs
Best Class Blogs nominated in alphabetical order!
4.2KJ @ Leopold Primary School 5.Class 4JC

3. 6.2KM@ Leopold Primary School 7.Extreme Biology!
8.6SS@NIST 9.Grade 1 and 2 at Ancaster Medow (B)
10.Bailey Road Team 17 (B) 11.Into the Wild
12.Billings Beta 13.Look What’s Happening in Room 102!
14.Blog, Blog Blog Blog, Blog Some More 15.Middle Learning Unit BPS
16.Best Class Blogs nominated in alphabetical order!
17.Mr. Austin’s Class 18.Techno Science
19.Mr Baldock’s Class Blog 20.The Brainy Bunch’s Blog
21.Mr. Salsich’s Class 22.The Blog Dogs
23.Mr. C’s Class Blog (B) 24.The Mac Lab
25.Mrs. Kolbert’s Class Blog 26.The Plugged-In Portable
27.Ms Leydon’s Class (B) 28.The Ripple Effect
29.Mrs. Yollis’ Class Blog! (B) 30.The Skinny
31.Ms Mourad’s Absolutely Sensational Learners 32.The Ins and Outs
33.Room 13 – Year 6/7 sharing their learning 34.Social Voice (B)
35.TEAM TOA-Shanghai American School, 36.What Happened Today? (Easy One)
Pudong, Third Grade Blog
Scholastic Top 20 Teacher Blogs
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3752562

4. Best Teacher Edublog 2010
http://edublogawards.com/2010awards/best-teacher-edublog-2010/
37. Winner: Teacher Tom (B)
First Runner Up: MR ROBBO – THE P.E GEEK
Second Runner Up: The Scholastic Scribe (B)
2010 Most Nominated Edublog Awards Blogs:
1.Langwitches- 2.Spencer’s Scratchpad
3.Think Thank Thunk 4.What Ed Said
38.
Blogs nominated in alphabetical order!
1.A GeekyMomma’s blog (B) 2.Lisa’s (Online) Teaching Blog
3.A Journey in TEFL 4.Lisa’s Lingo
5.A Primary Blog for the 21st Century 6.Lucacept – intercepting the Web
7.Blogush 8.MR ROBBO – THE P.E GEEK
9.Bluebird’s Classroom (B) 10.On A Journey with Generation Y
11.Cool Cat Teacher (B) 12.Online Sapiens
13.dy/dan 14.Open Educator
15.Edte.ch 16.Philly Teacher (B)
17.English Raven 18.Science Teacher (B)
19.f(t) (B) 20.Speech-Language Pathology Sharing
21.Finding Ways for All Kids to Flourish (B) 22.SpeEdChange (B)
23.First Grader At Last! (B) 24.Spencer’s Scratchpad
25.huffenglish.com 26.Successful Teaching (B)

5. 27.Integrating Technology in the Primary 28.Tao of Te(a)ching
Classroom
29.It’s Not All Flowers and Sausages (B) 30.Teacher Reboot Camp
31.Journey in Technology 32.Teacher Tom (B)
33.Kalinago English 34.TeachMoore
35.Langwitches 36.TEFLTastic with Alex Case
37.Learning is Messy 38.The Book Whisperer
39.The Digital Down Low (B) 40.The Nerdy Teacher (B)
41.Blogs nominated in alphabetical order!
42.The Scholastic Scribe (B) 43.Think Thank Thunk
44.ToughSledding What Ed Said
45.Teaching Literacy in the Primary Classroom 46.
47.TeflTecher : Tasks, Videos and Opinions for Tefl 48.
Teachers
49.The Cleaver Sheep (B) 50.
51.The Innovative Educator (B) 52.
Lifetime Achievement 2010
Here’s the winners for Lifetime Achievement 2010….
39. Winner: Linda Yollis (Teacher)
40. First Runner Up: Steve Hargadon
41.(Founder of Classroom 2.0 & Co-Chair 2010 Global Education
Conference
42. Second Runner Up: Sir Ken Robinson
43. International advisor on education

6. 44.
5.Most nominated were:
45.
6.Steve Hargadon
7.Sue Waters
8.Doug Johnson
Vicki Davis