Blogs,+Glogs+and+other+Web+2.0+Tools

=//Time: 10:30 - 11:45am// = toc

@http://sites.google.com/site/mrshortreedcomputerlab/web-2-0
= = **//Dave Shortreed,//** //Educational Technology Teacher from Victoria, BC//  media type="custom" key="13652840" media type="custom" key="12191982" align="right"

** Session Information **

 * **Location:** Secondary 3 Room //(HCS Campus Map)//
 * **Track:** K-12 Education
 * **Grade Level Focus:** Elem - Middle
 * **Exhibitor:** No
 * **Blog**: http://mrshortreed.blogspot.ca

** Session Description **
I am a Curriculum and Instruction grad student at Uvic, looking at the use of technology as a digital literacy learning tool in the classroom. I am an educational technology teacher in Greater Victoria School District 61. Find out about the value of blogging, both writing and reading to develop your Professional Learning Network (or PLN), and see how easy it is to set up a blog using blogger. This workshop will cover an introduction to blogger, how to connect it with other teachers using Twitter, and time to set up and design a blog. I will also introduce another web 2.0 website called glogster.edu to show how students grade 3-8 can make digital posters, and then offer time to register and design a glog.

Blogs
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">www.blogger.com



<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Feel free to make your session time more productive by checking out some of the information below, and getting aquainted with blogs and glogs.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check out a few of my favourite Ed Tech blogs from my blog post below. What do you like/dislike about them? What do you like/dislike about my blog? Start to hone your digital voice by critically looking at other blogs.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://mrshortreed.blogspot.ca/2011/11/flipboard-and-my-top-5-ed-tech-blogs.html

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Here are some other local blogs for your interest:**
@http://jo-online.vsb.bc.ca/bondi/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://pippashcos.blogspot.ca/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://currieosity.blogspot.ca/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Also, to make a blogspot blog you need a gmail account. If you do not have one, or rather create a new gmail account, it only will take you a few minutes.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Half of this session is to provide supported exploration and start-up time for a blog.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Glogs
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">edu.Glogster.com is free online software where students can easily create posters that can include text, pictures, videos, music, and animations, in a multi-dimensional space. The website can allow teachers to manage a classroom of students, who can co-create, comment, and interact with each other all within a monitored safe environment of glogster.com. A teacher may create multiple classrooms under the same login, and assign projects with criteria and samples.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Examples to explore:**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://liebermanc.edu.glogster.com/glog-9993-8940/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://tehescmarts.edu.glogster.com/the-2011-japan-tsunami/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Get a jump and create a free teacher account and start to play!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Half of this session is to provide supported exploration and start-up time for your glog.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Web 2.0 Tools
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With so many options out there for student use, please feel free to suggest any tools you may want to look into as a group on our twitter conversation #BCTCblogs

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">check out my student website section on web 2.0, for other tools. Please feel free to ask me any questions about any of them.