ejourneys

Below is a slideshare set up from a powerpoint presentation, for a local teachers conference held at Deakin University, in Warrnambool. Our experience has shown that staff need to start with something that could be useful in their own personal lives, experiment with it and use it, and from their they can start to see [...]

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As I am a member of www.projectsbyjen.ning.com, a recent discussion by @kimcofino re a request to list student blogs allowed me to meet Paul Bogush (@shaggyhill). He was looking for student bloggers to work with his students at Collaboration Nation. We had just set ours up, so I volunteered my year 9 and 10 group [...]

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My blog as a newspaper
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 I would like to sincerely thank @MrKp for ‘walking’ me through this interesting adaptation for blog posts. From @MrKp’s capable instructions, I have converted the last 6 week’s postings for my blog into newspaper pdf format. Check it out.

Copy rss feed from you own blog 

 Join www.feedjournal.com

Delete old rss feeds on there

Then [...]

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Teachers should never under-estimate the ability of students. As all grade 6 students now have individual blogs, the ‘baby steps’ of introducing blogging are now showing fruit, with the grade 6 teacher Marg Murnane   commencing a personal blog . With Heather Blakey’s help , a techno6 class blog is now ‘work in progress’. The class was asked what they would [...]

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When I was recently asked to write an article on safety, one of the questions was whether students felt safe using the web2.0 tools. So, I asked Grade 6 students a question on whether they felt safe blogging. (Students have had a class blog for 8 months and individual blogs for 2 months)
Here are some [...]

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Our school day with students finished after period 4, lunchtime. All students went home on the bus and after lunch, parents were invited to come in to our school and speak with teachers. This can be a challenging and testing time and often the parents you would really like to speak to, do not make the effort [...]

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 ”A comment a day encourages bloggers to have their say.” (A quote from one of my twitter friends.)

 When using online tools, the power of leaving comments when viewing other people’s work should not be overlooked. Comments can be made on blogs, podcasts at www.podomatic.com, teacher tube etc and even be added to some vokis and voicethreads.
Comments [...]

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As we are pioneers in cyberspace, cybersafety is a concern that is being refined and evaluated all the time - trying to balance transparency with privacy, allowing students some freedom, yet protecting them and ensuring their safety at all times.
Students complete posts in classtime but many find it so enjoyable, they post at home keeping a [...]

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It was with great dismay that I read another disappointing comment on my “Oz teachers mailing list” in Australia. A request had been made re the use of blogs in primary school education, and one of the replies is as follows:-
 I teach Early Childhood ( are there any other ECEs out there?)  and have
just been [...]

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Student Perspective

Edublogs revamped their site on the weekend, which caused a few frustrations with problems in formatting and themes. Most students have them back to their original format

Loved being able to add an avatar into the sidebar and attaching to comments

Edublogs now grabs clustr map codes as a widget option. Some great new features.

Many grade [...]

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