Blogger for Primary Teachers

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Writer, teacher,blogger, puppetman.I believe in students

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Blogger’s Many Roles

A platform to deliver

content to mobile

devices (single author)

A workflow to collect

and share work from

students (email

posting)

A center of class

community and sharing

for parents (private

blog)

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Seriously, before you set up [a class blog, website, twitter account, facebook, tumblr,] talk to your administrator. Talk about your school’s media policies. Communicate with parents early and often.

Setting up a private

class blog with Blogger

Let’s set up a private blog right now

so you can see how, and ask

question in a supported environment

I do this part live, otherwise slides

go out of date too quickly Check connected documents for

links to relevant screencasts

Invit

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s to

the

class

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th

a go

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form

Use the form to reinforce your

purpose and make your process clear

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Why Post a lesson on

blogger?

For in class

Puts class

resources

and pages

all in the

same place.

And after

Making your

lessons sharable

enables

connection

to other

teachers

Let’s Look at some

Lessons designed in Blogger

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Students can email

classwork to blog

Enter the email into the Tablet’s

contacts as “2nd work publish”

Publish as a post or a draft

Let’s look using

Blogger for workflow

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The

Blog

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pp Your new favorite tool for collecting and sharing moments from class.

Easy

Blo

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JR Set up class blogging on shared devices, perfect for Elementary

Ques

tions

?What questions about

possibilities and limitations do you have?

Thank YouShare your

Blog

When you

are ready to

share tweet

your blog at

me @SamPatue

Let’s connect

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