BLOGGING IS LEARNING
Blogmeister is a good place to start for teachers who are new to blogging. It was founded by David Warlick of the Landmark Project. It was created to give teachers a significant amount of control over the web publishing activities of the students.
Blogmeister “ A blogging tool developed for teachers as an authentic publishing environment to promote the development of effective communicatrion skills in students.”
Class Blogmeister Developed specifically for classrooms, this blogging engine offers free accounts to teachers, professors, school leaders, librarians, and other education professionals. Accounts can be used to post assignments, student writing, and instructional activities. Students are not allowed to have their own blogs but they can participate within the account established by their teacher.It is a free, online blogging tool that is specifically designed for classroom use as an authentic publishing environment to promote the development of effective communication skills in students. It allows the teacher to evaluate, comment on, and finally publish students' blog articles in a controlled environment. Students' articles and readers' comments do not go public until the teacher has reviewed and approved them, thus assuring the quality and appropriateness of student publications before they go live.They are also untraceable and cannot be found using search engines. If users are wanting to broaden their audience perhaps Blogger, or Edublogs may be better suited for this purpose.
The unique moderation features, lack of advertising, and the ability to attach most of the standard Web 2.0 media to blogs make this a safe and motivating environment for educational blogging.
Registering is simply by sending an email, and login details are emailed back. To register for your BlogMeister account, contact David Warlick at david@landmark-project.com. You will be sent a school code, and classes within the school can then register using this code. This document gives concise instructions on establishing a Blogmeister account, customising and setting up the blog, and then setting up student accounts. (PDF 292KB).
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The unique moderation features, lack of advertising, and the ability to attach most of the standard Web 2.0 media to blogs make this a safe and motivating environment for educational blogging.
Registering is simply by sending an email, and login details are emailed back. To register for your BlogMeister account, contact David Warlick at david@landmark-project.com. You will be sent a school code, and classes within the school can then register using this code. This document gives concise instructions on establishing a Blogmeister account, customising and setting up the blog, and then setting up student accounts. (PDF 292KB).
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Class Blogmeister
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Finding Widget
When a person or a website refers to a widget, they are commonly referring either to a web widget or a desktop widget. While these two things sound the same, they are actually quite different. A desktop widget resides on your computer's desktop and doesn't require a web browser to be open, while a web widget is a component of a web page, so it does require a web browser.
Widget Guide - Web Widgets
A web widget is a small piece of code that can be placed on a website or blog, such as embedding a video from YouTube.
The four most common places to use web widgets are:
Widget Guide - Desktop Widgets
A desktop widget is a small application that runs on your desktop, sometimes accessing the Internet for information, such as a desktop widget that shows the local temperature and weather.
Desktop widgets can provide a large range of uses for your desktop. For example, a scratch pad widget can allow you to create small notes for yourself and post them on your desktop, just as you might put notes on your refrigerator.
To use a desktop widget, you need to first install a widget toolbox to manage the widgets on your desktop. Yahoo! Widgets are a popular source of desktop widgets, and Yahoo provides a widget toolbox. Microsoft Vista also comes with a widget toolbox to manage desktop widgets.
10 Great Yahoo Widgets For Your Desktop
This is where widget galleries come into play. Widget galleries allow people who create widgets to post their widget to the gallery so people like you and me can easily find them. These galleries allow you to search by category to find the widget you are interested in for your blog or social networking profile, and often will even help you get it installed properly.
There are many websites online that offer widgets for free. Here is a list to help you get started.
What is it's Implication to Learning?
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http://www.slideshare.net/hseufert/class-blogmeister
http://softwareforlearning.tki.org.nz/Products/Class-
Blogmeister#addreview
Finding Widget
When a person or a website refers to a widget, they are commonly referring either to a web widget or a desktop widget. While these two things sound the same, they are actually quite different. A desktop widget resides on your computer's desktop and doesn't require a web browser to be open, while a web widget is a component of a web page, so it does require a web browser.
A web widget is a small piece of code that can be placed on a website or blog, such as embedding a video from YouTube.
The four most common places to use web widgets are:
- Websites. Whether it is a personal website or a business website, widgets can enhance productivity or just add a little fun to your site. A common example of a widget on a website are ad blocks such as Google Ads.
- Blogs. Widgets can give your blog a personalized feel, or provide advanced utility for your readers. A common example of a widget on a blog are those "Digg this" icons that will automatically submit blog posts to Digg.
- Personalized Start Pages. Widgets can also add productivity and/or fun to your start page. A common example of a widget on a start page are RSS readers used to deliver the headlines from your favorite blog or news source such as Yahoo! News or CNN.
- Social Networking Profiles. You can use widgets on a Social Network to tell more about yourself, such as listing out your favorite books, or have compile your favorite songs into a play list to play for visitors to your profile.
Widget Guide - Desktop Widgets
A desktop widget is a small application that runs on your desktop, sometimes accessing the Internet for information, such as a desktop widget that shows the local temperature and weather.
Desktop widgets can provide a large range of uses for your desktop. For example, a scratch pad widget can allow you to create small notes for yourself and post them on your desktop, just as you might put notes on your refrigerator.
To use a desktop widget, you need to first install a widget toolbox to manage the widgets on your desktop. Yahoo! Widgets are a popular source of desktop widgets, and Yahoo provides a widget toolbox. Microsoft Vista also comes with a widget toolbox to manage desktop widgets.
10 Great Yahoo Widgets For Your Desktop
Widget Guide - How Can I Find Widgets?
One problem many people have is actually finding widgets to put on their webpage or blog. Most personalized start pages come with a small gallery of widgets that can be used on the start page, but if you are looking for a widget for your blog, it can sometimes be difficult to locate them.This is where widget galleries come into play. Widget galleries allow people who create widgets to post their widget to the gallery so people like you and me can easily find them. These galleries allow you to search by category to find the widget you are interested in for your blog or social networking profile, and often will even help you get it installed properly.
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Finding Widgets on the Web
There are many websites online that offer widgets for free. Here is a list to help you get started.
Website | Description |
| Gadgets by Google | Gadgets (another name for widgets) offers dynamic content. |
| Good Widgets | Create your own photo/slide show widgets. |
| Netvibes Ecosystem | An online resource of many different widgets that are available without having to set up an account. |
| Game Widgets | Free online flash games- great for k12 audiences. |
| PBS Teachers | PBS offers a library of "Activity packs", essentially widgets, that focuses on a curricular theme and includes links to great PBS resources and supplemental activities |
| Poll Daddy | Free online surveys and polls. With a free account you can create polls and surveys for your lessons. |
| PRI Widgets | Public Radio International offers widgets that allow you to listen to, and get headlines of PRI stories on economic security, social entrepreneurship, and global health and development. |
| Widgetoko | A blog that features a new widget everyday |
| WidgetBox | An online resource of many different widgets that are available without having to setup an account |
| Widgiland | An online resource of many different widgets that are available without having to set up an account. |
| Widgipedia | An online resource of many different widgets that are available without having to set up an account. |
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Perhaps one of the most fascinating tools that has emerged from the Internet cloud in recent years is the Blog. A shortening of the term Web log, the Blog is an online publishing tool that enables people to easily publish their loves, passions, dislikes, peeves, discoveries, and insights.
Thousands of teachers have discovered the value of classroom blogging, both as an avenue for their communications, but also as a tool for giving voice to what their students are learning and how they are learning.
Class Blogmeister is one of several blogging engines that have been developed specifically for classroom use.
Activity: Higher Order Thinking Skills
Check this link and answer:
http://www.northerngrid.org/ngflwebsite/hots/site/activities/Redevelopment/new_town.html
http://www.northerngrid.org/ngflwebsite/hots/site/activities/slander/slander.html
Activity for Multiple Intelligence
For the topic entitled "The Real Me", write this in a form of music, poem, sketch, and any form where you can express your own idea and share it on class and transfer it to blog, it is necessarily that you will add widgets to personalize your profile.
Prepared by: Catherine A. Lumbos
Thousands of teachers have discovered the value of classroom blogging, both as an avenue for their communications, but also as a tool for giving voice to what their students are learning and how they are learning.
Class Blogmeister is one of several blogging engines that have been developed specifically for classroom use.
Activity: Higher Order Thinking Skills
Check this link and answer:
http://www.northerngrid.org/ngflwebsite/hots/site/activities/Redevelopment/new_town.html
http://www.northerngrid.org/ngflwebsite/hots/site/activities/slander/slander.html
Activity for Multiple Intelligence
For the topic entitled "The Real Me", write this in a form of music, poem, sketch, and any form where you can express your own idea and share it on class and transfer it to blog, it is necessarily that you will add widgets to personalize your profile.
Prepared by: Catherine A. Lumbos
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