View this powerpoint presentation to help you set up your own blogging site, and lesson planning suggestions.
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1. Weblogs Weblogs what are they and how you can use them in teaching and learning
2. A Weblog is an easily created, easily updateable website that allows an author (or authors) to publish instantly to the Internet from any Internet connection.
3. A Weblog can contain experiences, observations, advice,opinions, analysis, notes, comments on an array of subjects by individuals or a group
4. Main Features
Ease of use where an author can publish to the web without using a program
A Weblog does not require server software
Users have extensive control over the Weblog appearance and operation
Weblogs are updated instantly, and available promptly for other users
Weblogs can be linked to, and navigated
easily
5. How to set up a Weblog account
Create a Goggle account at blogger.com
6. Step 1
7. Step 2 Name your blog
8. Step 3 Choose a template
9. Step 4 Your blog has been created
10. Now your blog has been created, start blogging
11. Why Use Weblogs
Using Weblogs is a way to reduce the isolation of the virtual learning environment
Weblogs may be a means of assessment for the interactive virtual learning environment
Weblogs may be a means of creating a community of support and sustainability for learning
12. Why Use Weblogs Cont
Weblogs may be a means of reporting progress and allow the users to provide guidance, feedback, chat sessions, and personal journals
13. Advantages of Weblogs
Feedback between teacher, student, and parents
A Weblog makes a journal interactive, and may help students internalize material and stay abreast of tasks in the teaching and learning process
