Since blogs at SBP will be team blogs, a method must be found to organize the posts so that a visitor to the blog can select to read a certain student's posts. I believe I have found a method to do this organization, and that entails the use of a feature called "Labels" in the Blogger posting window.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Which blog provider should we use?
It has obviously been a while since I've posted anything on this blog. What has happened since January? The blog committee has not met again; I suppose it's the load of teaching four blocks a day that did that, primarily. My attention has also been on doing research for the Critical Reading committee, and we've made some headway over there.
With the graduation and classes being over, I've had a chance to play around more with some of the possibilities that exist about introducing blogging to the school. Here are some more things that I have learned, commenting first about the plan the I had written about in January...
With the graduation and classes being over, I've had a chance to play around more with some of the possibilities that exist about introducing blogging to the school. Here are some more things that I have learned, commenting first about the plan the I had written about in January...
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Beginning the journey at SBP Science
Actually, the journey begins tomorrow, Monday, January 24. After attending the blog/wiki seminar for teachers at NJIT this past Saturday, I will being piloting a program for using several web tools, including blogs, wikis, and Google docs, into the curriculum of some (and eventually all) of the classes that I'm teaching at SBP this semester. Several SBP teachers also attended the seminar, and we had a chance to discuss how to implement some of these web tools into our classrooms.
My further incentive to learn about this has to do with my role as the main proponent of using blogs to improve the writing abilities of the students at SBP. As we learned more about blogs and wikis, several teachers and I began to realize the possibilities, and the challenges, of using blogs and wikis in our classrooms. One of my primary concerns is the apparent unwieldy nature of signing-up our rosters of students into the blogs and wikis that I, as the classroom teacher, would create for each class. To be included as a contributor into a wiki or a blog, a student must sign-up with the provider of the blog/wiki, which would be either blogger.com or wikispaces.com (during the seminar, we had a chance to investigate other providers, but these seemed like the most easy to use, and also the most popular). The current nature of the email system at SBP would cause a delay in the sign-up process, and I hope I've been able to find a work-around to that concern.
Here's my plan, and let's see if it works.
My further incentive to learn about this has to do with my role as the main proponent of using blogs to improve the writing abilities of the students at SBP. As we learned more about blogs and wikis, several teachers and I began to realize the possibilities, and the challenges, of using blogs and wikis in our classrooms. One of my primary concerns is the apparent unwieldy nature of signing-up our rosters of students into the blogs and wikis that I, as the classroom teacher, would create for each class. To be included as a contributor into a wiki or a blog, a student must sign-up with the provider of the blog/wiki, which would be either blogger.com or wikispaces.com (during the seminar, we had a chance to investigate other providers, but these seemed like the most easy to use, and also the most popular). The current nature of the email system at SBP would cause a delay in the sign-up process, and I hope I've been able to find a work-around to that concern.
Here's my plan, and let's see if it works.
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