{"id":892,"date":"2006-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=892"},"modified":"2006-09-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"to-blog-or-not-to-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/to-blog-or-not-to-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"To Blog or Not to Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Susan Buchanan, Fiona Cunningham, p7 pupils &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/woodhillprimaryschool.blogspot.com\/\">Woodhill Primary School<\/a><br \/>Fiona Andrews LTS<br \/>First seminar I&#8217;ve managed to get a ticket for and I got the last one.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/edcompblog.blogspot.com\">David<\/a> just walked in, looks like this will be blogged twice, Susan: hands up who has dabbled, about 1 third!!<br \/>Basic, what is a blog? Nice loose definition.<br \/>Don&#8217;t contrive, need to be learning lead.<a href=\"http:\/\/pcpod.edublogs.org\">PCPod<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Real Audience<\/li>\n<li>Motivational<\/li>\n<li>Ownership<\/li>\n<li>Interaction<\/li>\n<li>Feedback<\/li>\n<li>Exciting<\/li>\n<li>Reinforcement (of French by podcast)<\/li>\n<li>Home School Links<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Project, small start focus on French 2x Primary 6, 3 iPods funded<\/p>\n<p>Fiona C: fluent in French, Woodhill classroom assistant, created lessons and recorded French files. <br \/>Train children: iTunes, iPods, MP3players. Children used iPods at wet intervals.<br \/>Children testing and playing with each other.<br \/>Children thought they ere <em>cheating<\/em> by practicing at home!<\/p>\n<p>Children are on, demo weather exercise, sound files link with worksheet. Own personal teacher, children bring own ipod.<br \/>Pause and rewind, test and review.<\/p>\n<p>Children check their strengths and weakness, retest themselves.<br \/>Children blogged what they though about the project, preferred way of learning.<\/p>\n<p>Child demos blogging, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\">Blogger<\/a>, commenting.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/woodhillprimaryschool.blogspot.com\/\">Woodhill Primary School<\/a>.commenting is a skill, 2 stars and a wish.<\/p>\n<p>Other projects: <a href=\"http:\/\/woodhillprimaryschoolecowarriors.blogspot.com\/\">Woodhill Primary School Eco Warriors<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/woodhillprimaryschoolparents.blogspot.com\/\">Woodhill Primary School Parents<\/a><br \/>What to blog, CPD, lots of stuff for teachers, use as calendar, homework, classwork, extensions, links for children, outing reports, book club, inter-school links.<\/p>\n<p>Other blogs us, Aberdeen, teddies&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>start small<\/li>\n<li>worthwhile tie in to learning and teaching<\/li>\n<li>be comfortable with tech<\/li>\n<li>use good software<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Presentation and help at <a href=\"http:\/\/toblogornottoblog.edublogs.org\/\">To Blog Or Not To Blog<\/a> <br \/>Great overview of blogging and lots of ideas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ttags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sett06\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">sett06<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">blogging<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/scottishlearningfestival\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">scottishlearningfestival<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Buchanan, Fiona Cunningham, p7 pupils &#8211; Woodhill Primary SchoolFiona Andrews LTSFirst seminar I&#8217;ve managed to get a ticket for and I got the last one.David just walked in, looks like this will be blogged twice, Susan: hands up who has dabbled, about 1 third!!Basic, what is a blog? 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