Blogging

14th May 2011

Helen Bullock
Twitter: @AnseoAMuinteoir
 Types of Blogs
• Teacher/Student (Personal) Blog
– www.anseo-a-mhuinteoir.com
– http://teachermoloneyking.com/
• School Blog
– http://www.carloweducatetogether.ie/home/
– http://gaelscoilmc1.scoilnet.ie/blog/
• Class Blog
– http://msleydonsclass.blogspot.com/
– http://wearesuperkiddos.blogspot.com/
• Subject Blog
– http://www.frogblog.ie/
– http://www.sccenglish.ie/
 Why Blog?
• Why Blogging is Best?
– Freedom of expression
– Dynamic, Interactive, Instant Feedback
– Independent learning for everyone
– Secure
– Easily Searchable
– Multiple Authors
– Free (usually!)
– No need to be a technical wizard
 Why Blog?
• Educational reasons
– Class notice board & newsletter
– Archive of links
– Collaboration
– Discussion & reflection tool
– Feedback and comments
– Student Interests including attachments
 5 Reasons to Blog!!
1. They encourage higher order thinking skills
eg: reflection & analysis while also
encouraging reading writing & collaboration
2. Publishing commentary & entries can lead to
peer learning, peer assessment & sense of
ownership-all highly motivational
3. The technology is easy to use
 5 Reasons to Blog!!
4. They easily support video, audio & other
media and file types therefore creating a very
dynamic learning experience while supporting
a variety of learning styles
5. Learning is extending outside of the school
environment.
 Tweet Tweet
• Twitter & Blogging go hand in hand
– Get your thoughts out there
– Networking
– Encourages visitors to blog
– Learning opportunities
– Feedback, opinions, comments
– Another means of expression (shorter & instant)