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Office of Instructional Technology

The Office of Instructional Technology provides innovative solutions to transform teaching, learning, and leading through customized support and services.

Queens

Welcome!Barbara King, Facilitatorbking@schools.nyc.gov

http://www.oit.nycenet.edu

BLOGS

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What is a Blog?

A blog is an online personal journal or diary.

It is a place to express yourself to the world.

A place to share your thoughts and your passions.

A blog is your own website that you are going to update on an ongoing basis.

Blog is a short form for weblog.The two words are used interchangeably.

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What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 is the transition of the Internet from a place where we surf for information and consume information to a place where we are creators of information.

We go from surfing the wave to BEING the wave as we contribute and share information on the Internet ocean.Blogging is an example of a Web 2.0 Tool

First used 1997 deja.comm.weblogs.USENET.group

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Do you read blogs?

Do you have a blog or contribute to a blog?

What are you already using?

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Think about this…

In what ways have you received information in the past 24 hours?

Flier Email Newsletter

Face-to-Face TV Text Message

Phone Wiki Instant Messaging

Radio Internet RSS Twitter

Blog Newspaper Blackberry

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Think about this…

What do Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick Warren, and Stormfront have in common?

They are all desperate to get their message out.

They will use the mediums their audience chooses.

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Social Software Landscape

Blogs

Instant Messaging

Internet Forums

eLearning

Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Media Sharing

Personals

Social Annotation

Social Bookmarking

Social Networking

Wikis

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Blogs in Plain English –Common Craft

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Stats on Blogging

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Some of the Lingo…

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Blogging…

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Why Blog in Education?

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Blogs In The Classroom

Blogs for Discussions

Blogs for Classroom Management

Blogs for Student Portfolios

Blogs for Writing

Blogs as Journals

Blogs for Collaboration

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Why let our students blog?

Please view a terrific video by teacher Rachel Boyd from New Zealand on why we should have our students blog.

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Educational Uses…

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Safety…

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Preparing Students for Blogging

Acceptable Usage Policy

Blogging rules

Parental Permission

Review safe and acceptable online behavior

Set clear expectations and consequences

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What Tools are Available?

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What’s Next?

Let’s take a look at some tools that can support your blog!

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Complimentary Tools…

Social Bookmarking/Enhanced Linkrolls (e.g. Diigo, del.icio.us)Online photo management/sharing (e.g. Flickr)Online video management/sharing (e.g. TeacherTube)Convert blog posts to podcasts (e.g. Odiogo)Add podcasts to blogs (e.g. gcast)Slideshows (e.g. slideshare.com)Geography (e.g. Frappr, Google Earth, Clustr Maps)Translator (e.g. Babblefish)Blog Search engines (e.g. Technorati, Ask)Aggregators (e.g. Bloglines, NetNewsWire, Google Reader)Avatars (e.g. voki.com)

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Real Simple Syndication (RSS)

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Use Technology To…

Getting Started…

Categories are where your posts will be filed

Posts can be put into multiple categories

Example categories: Homework, Handouts, Class notes, Parking Lot

CREATING A CATEGORYCREATING A CATEGORY

Click Manage Categories

Create new category

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Creating a Post…

• Click Manage Posts

• New Post

• Give your post a title

• Choose which categories you would like to file your post in

• Create post

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Attaching a file…

• In a post, click on the “Attach File” tab

• Click add/update to attach file

• Browse your computer to find saved file

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Creating a Hyperlink…

• In a post, write the content of your choice

• Highlight the words you wish to connect a link to

• Click on the “link” picture and fill out the appropriate URL

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Include pictures/audio & video

Use “embed” code for video

Copy the “embed” code of any video

Paste it to the html indicator

Save Image/Audio as – Desktop is easiest

Images should be .jpg,.png

Audio should be .mp3

Insert Image from Desktop

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