Getting a buzz out of blogging
- Blog skills for subject specialists
- Copyright: keep it legal
- ESafety KS1
- Getting a buzz out of blogging
- ICT support in education (practitioner)
- Introduction to games
- Learning platforms all aboard
- Learning together developing wikis
- Learning together introducing wikis
- Making games and motivating learners KS2
- Multimedia skills and applications
- Researching and evaluating a digital game for the classroom
- Sharing ideas - developing wikis (primary)
- Sharing ideas introducing wikis
- The potential of technology
- Using the game Spore to motivate learners KS3
- Website development skills and applications
- Working with multimedia
- Wow them with wikipedia
- Writing using multimodal approaches KS1
- Writing using multimodal approaches KS3
About. Learning outcomes
Course schedule
Introduction
Introducing ourselves through a blog
Introducing blogs
E-safety when using blogs
Exploring classroom blogs
Finding relevant examples and generating ideas
Planning to use a blog
Setting up and using the blog for teaching and learning
Reflect, evaluate and share with others
Shared learning
Evaluation and certification
References
Pedagogical content. Starting with the basic principles of blogs(tool) and blogging, this primary course looks at their use within education and how they can be used to improve teaching and learning. The focus is particularly on blogs as an ICT(i) tool for collaboration(ta) which encourages the effective use of reasoning(ta) and language(ta). The unit also discusses practical elements such as e-skills(topic) and copyright(topic) issues you might encounter in blogging. (edit)
| Resource details | |
| Title | Getting a buzz out of blogging |
| Topic | [[Topics/Blogs|Blogs]], [[Topics/E-skills|E-skills]], [[Topics/Copyright|Copyright]] |
| Teaching approach | [[Teaching Approaches/Language|Language]], [[Teaching Approaches/Collaboration|Collaboration]], [[Teaching Approaches/Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
| Format / structure | Various online activities. |
| Subject | [[Resources/Secondary|Secondary]], [[Resources/Teacher Education|Teacher Education]], [[Resources/Primary|Primary]] |
| Age of students / grade | [[Resources/KS5|KS5]], [[Resources/Secondary|Secondary]], [[Resources/Primary|Primary]], [[Resources/Higher|Higher]], [[Resources/KS1|KS1]], [[Resources/KS4|KS4]], [[Resources/KS3|KS3]], [[Resources/KS2|KS2]]
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| Other (e.g. time frame) | Duration of the course: 20 hours over eight weeks |
| Files and resources to view and download | http://www.vital.ac.uk/community/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=1545 Users must register with the VITAL website (free registration) before they can access the resource.
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