Seattle Schools Network on Ning
Posted by Harvey on November 13, 2009 in Blogging, Web 2.0
Ning is a social networking site that allows anyone to create an online network for almost any purpose. The Instructional Technology group has created a Seattle Schools social network on Ning to allow educators an online space to connect and share with others. (more…)
Blogging Poetry
Posted by Janice on June 9, 2009 in Blogging, Language Arts, Teacher Voices
Kristi Dahlstrom, Language Arts/Journalism teacher at Ingraham high school created a collaborative poetry project with one of her Language Arts 9 classes. Students have been writing and refining their poetry over the last few weeks in preparation for publishing to the class blog.
Besides learning to write poetry, students learned to write specific praise and constructive criticism for commenting on each other’s work. They practiced this element of the project on poems posted to the blog by Kristi and her student teacher. Kristi observed, “Students are now posting their own work and commenting with maturity and grace! Success!”
You can see their project by going to http://www.msdahlstrom.edublogs.org
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Why Should I Blog With My Students?
Posted by Janice on October 22, 2008 in Blogging, Podcasting, Web 2.0
Many teachers want to have a place where they can easily post materials for student use, showcase student projects and provide a forum for online discussion. Blogs provide this venue for teachers and students by offering a community forum for their use. Posts to the blog can be photographs, video, audio or word processed, making blogs a good place to post student and teacher multimedia projects which can be viewed from any computer, anywhere, anytime. This allows student, parent and teacher interaction from home, school, the library, and web enabled cell phones.
Here are some reasons to use a classroom blog:
1. Post materials and resources for students and parents
2. Host online discussions based on books your students are reading, discussion topics from your classroom, etc.
3. Create a class publication such as a monthly newsletter that can be read online.
4. Post student projects and writing for peer and teacher review.
5. Share your lesson plans and web links
6. Integrate multimedia of all kinds
7. Organize projects, events, information
8. Get feedback from fellow teachers, parents, students which builds a community around your classroom.
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Protecting Intellectual Property
Posted by Eric C. on May 15, 2007 in Blogging, Internet Research, Libraries
Increasingly, students are becoming not just consumers of content but creators as well. This poses interesting challenges for teachers and librarians as we try to navigate the waters of intellectual property rights. What can students and teachers fairly use without permission and how can we protect what we create? (more…)
Feed Your Mind Flash Presentation
Posted by Eric M. on April 25, 2006 in Blogging
I created this presentation about blogs and RSS feed readers to present to the educational technologists from the Seattle Schools. You can view the movie here. The slideshow doesn’t show the full presention because I frequently navigated away from the flash movie to show examples of other web sites.
Use these keys to navigate through the movie;
- Right arrow: move forward one slide
- Left arrow: move backward one slide
- Up arrow: replay animation of current slide
- Down arrow: skip animation of current slide
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