ICT in English NZ

Literary Tweets: 100+ of the Best Authors on Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Grant) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:32:00 +0000

It has been nearly two years since I first posted about Twitter on ICTinEnglish. It is proving to be a valuable tool to connect me with my personal learning network and it has been interesting following the impact this micro-blogging tool has had on education, global communication and social networking.

All the while though I try to keep in mind audience and how many are actually participating. While one report has found New Zealanders rank number 6 in the world for twitter use in relation to population size this is still only a little over 3% of our total population!

Still a great way to connect with others of similar interest so here's another one for the ICT in English audience: Literary Tweets: 100+ of the Best Authors on Twitter a listing of more than 100 authors active on Twitter compiled by Mashable.com

Exploring team blogging and warnings from the surgeon general!

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Grant) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:22:00 +0000

The ICTinEnglish blog evolved a couple of years ago in response to the increased interest in Web 2.0 and blogging through the ICTinEnglish forum.

The purpose of this blog is to explore team blogging and the possibilities for learning and teaching in New Zealand schools. A number of authors have added value to the blog over time, contributing posts, sharing ideas and experiences about learning through ICT and highlighting projects of interest.

Team blogging can be a useful option if you want to collaborate and share with others online or if you are new to blogging and want to explore options before considering setting up your own. Also if you have questions, add a comment to the blog or post to the list serv as there is a forever growing community of support through the network.

Some recommendations that have come through my RSS and Twitter in the past month...

Free online library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. WARNING — The surgeon general reports that having these many free books at your disposal can be highly addictive.

The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world.

Educational videos for students available online that have been previewed and catcgorised under English, Sciences and Maths.

Wordle according to Jen Wagner!

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Grant) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:50:00 +0000

Wordle is a nifty wee web tool for creating word clouds that has grown in popularity in the past year. Lots of possibilities for creative use in the classroom as shared here by Jen Wagner.
Follow Jen Wagner on twitter.

Wordle Ideas

View more OpenOffice presentations from JenniferW.

'Enhanced English Teacher'

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Grant) — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:01:00 +0000

Are you familiar with the Enhanced English Teacher blog? Written by Tara Seale, a 9th grade English teacher. Have enjoyed reading some recent posts see (Sharing the Solitary Self for a Greater Mind) Also a valuable and informative post on Google Apps with Students
You may find this useful if you are considering for your class as Tara explores both the pros and cons.
Do you have any favourite blogs from English teachers you can recommend? Please share in the comments for this post. Or if you are a member of the blog write a short post highlighting key features.

30 Ideas for Inspiring Writing!

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Grant) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:53:00 +0000

Thanks to Mark Warner (via AllanhK) for sharing these strategies for using e-learning to inspire students' writing. Click the image below to view on Google Docs.

E-fellowships, e-learning and literacy

noreply@blogger.com (nzvintagegirl) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:16:00 +0000

I am the Head of English Faculty at Auckland Girls' Grammar School and this year I have been lucky enough to be awarded an E-fellowship which is allowing me a little time and support to conduct an inquiry project looking at how online communities and blogs can be used as part of the preparation and formative assessment for Formal Writing (AS90053).

In this proposed inquiry project I am aiming to critically reflect on the practice of formal writing, as a formative task through the use of an online classroom community (the class wiki) which provides students with the topics and related live links to resources for a range of formal writing topics. The formal writing practise will be completed in the context of individual student blogs. The blog will then provide a platform for guided and non-guided collaborative writing, peer and teacher feed-forward and feedback.

I then wish to look at the effects of these practices on the learner, to see the impact this approach has on student participation, engagement and improvement of literacy levels as illustrated in their production of formal writing. I am also hoping to measure how realistic and successful this approach is in comparison to more traditional in class written practice and potentially measuring whether using an environment (that of the online community) that our students feel comfortable in, enhances the development of their literacy levels.
If you are keen to see how this all goes throughout the year, I will be posting my updates and reflections here.

Here's hoping my hunch is right that increased engagement may equate to greater success! You can check out how I used this project last year by following the link http://thevirtualclassroom.pbwiki.com/Wikis+in+English

Claire Amos

Auckland Girls' Grammar School

Team 2 Tells Tales

noreply@blogger.com (Manaiakalani Cluster) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:00:00 +0000

I am Year 3 Teacher at Pt England School in Auckland. I became a lead teacher for the Manaiakalani cluster during 2008 when my team leader went on maternity leave. The hook our project,Team 2 Tells Tales, used for our children was digital story telling.

I selected 5 children in my class, based on their writing and oral language levels, to be in my target group. We followed the literacy cycle you can see below. Typically we started with writing stories. These children then edited their stories with me. We used iMovie to film our stories as the students read them aloud. The movies were then published on our blog. Once on our blog the wider audience were able to view them and leave comments. The children viewed their stories over and over again and reflected on themselves and on the comments they recieved.
Not every story the students wrote was published as a digital story, but they usually had one published each week.
eLearning is integrated into all subjects in my class. We used some of the children's eLearning work in other curriculum areas (often illustrated in Kid Pix) to create movies with voice overs to post on the blog too. Sometimes we published photos displaying our work in a bubbleshare slideshow using to show the process the students went through.

In 2009 we will continue to use digital story telling as our main hook in our literacy. I hope to use other web2 tools eg. VoiceThread. However I have a new class so that means new children to introduce to this exciting way of learning. We have renamed our blog Room 10 @ Pt England School.
Priscilla Lavakula
Pt England School

Save the Words

noreply@blogger.com (Lenva Shearing) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:06:00 +0000

Savethewords is a great web2.0 site for good spellers. The words call out to you to pick them, and once you 'adopt' a word you promise to use that word in conversation. A great way for your top spellers to increase their vocabulary and have fun doing it.

Tamaki Writers Group 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Manaiakalani Cluster) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:36:00 +0000

Tamaki Primary School is a Decile 1a contributing Primary School in East Auckland, New Zealand.
In 2008, we embarked on the Tamaki Primary Writers Group project as part of "Manaiakalani"( Hook From Heaven) , with the aim of extending high standards in literacy across our cluster. The project is firmly based in literacy but the "hook" for the students is an ICT component. This "hook" has involved a lot of frontloading for teachers - having to become competent in the use of many of the technology tools available today. In our case we chose a BLOG as the vehicle to give our students an authentic, world wide audience for their writing. The development of an eLiteracy Cycle has ensured that literacy has always remained at the very heart of the programme and as a result ICT - although the "hook"- does not dominate the programme. The Literacy cycle that was devised at the beginning of the project evolved throughout the whole of 2008 and has changed remarkedly from it's original form.
The 2008 programme provided the perfect opportunity to develop and nurture the literacy skills of a small group of students who had been identified through our school wide assessment (STAR and AsTTle) as the more able readers and writers within our Year 4 to 6 students.
So far the results look good and I am looking forward to watching the continued progress of these students. A HUGE plus to working within the Manaiakalani project is the fact that we have the local Intermediate and College involved - and this means we are able to identify those students who have been a part of the project and build on their skills from year to year.
In 2009 I am working with a group of 5 year olds, all of whom have just started school and are at a very early stage of their learning SO the Blog is taking on a very different look!

Visit the Tamaki Primary Blockbusters and see where we are heading this year. There are also links to all the other blogs within our cluster.

Rhonda Kelly
Tamaki Primary School

Glenbrae School Podcasts

noreply@blogger.com (Manaiakalani Cluster) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Kia Ora, my name is Joy Paton and I taught a Year 3/4 class at Glenbrae School during 2008.
Glenbrae School is a primary school in Glen Innes, Auckland and has 140 students. We are in the Manaiakalani Cluster.

Last year I was part of this very exciting initiative which involved the convergence of Literacy and 21st Century technologies. We used podcasting as the ICT tool to publish our students' work in literacy. At the start of the year we created a blogsite. Our writing and topic studies were integrated throughout the year. As part of the learning our podcasts took the form of interviews, news broadcasts, movies etc. Every student was involved and created their own podcasts. And every student had their work uploaded onto the blogsite, as I wanted to promote an inclusive learning environment.

Our aims were to: improve student academic performance in literacy; publish student work to wider audiences; promote, challenge and engage students in teaching and learning; and to promote self evaluation and reflection throughout the literacy process. As part of this process, we worked through a Literacy Cycle that includes all of these elements. The Literacy Cycle included Writing, Reading, Speaking and Listening.
The blogsite was an absolute success. Students were motivated and engaged. They loved looking at themselves on the blogsite and always looked at ways to improve their own individual performance for the next time. And by the end of last year we had had over 3000 viewers and listeners from around the world visiting. Click here to view a student's sample of their work.
To view more about Glenbrae School, visit the school website.

This year, the blogsite has continued under the new lead teacher, Tilly Thambiran, who has joined the school in 2009. The blogsite has had a new makeover and a new name: Glenbrae School's Brilliant Bloggers

In 2009 I have moved schools and I am now teaching a Year 2 class at Panmure Bridge School, so I am still able to be a lead teacher in the Manaiakalani cluster. I have created a new project with this class and we publish our podcasts on a blog called Creative Voice.

Joy Paton
Panmure Bridge School (2009)

Digital Chocolate – tasty e-treats with Animation Nation

noreply@blogger.com (Manaiakalani Cluster) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:22:00 +0000

Want to lure your kids into literacy? The attraction of animation is that it brings the age-old skill of storytelling into the 21st century, blending solid literacy skills with a dynamic digital delivery. For our students who live in the 'screen age' and demand a sisomo approach to learning, animation is the perfect tool to develop thinking, technical and literacy skills - as well as sharing knowledge learnt across all curriculum areas in a creative and accessible manner. eLearning lures kids into literacy- and keeps them addicted!

This was the highlight and challenge I faced in 2008 with my Years 5/6 decile one class of predominantly Maori, Pasifika and Afghani students at Panmure Bridge School in Auckland. To promote our oral literacy skills we chose to explore digital storytelling through animation as our platform. And so our Animation Nation project was born as part of the Manaiakalani Cluster EHSAS Initiative. We wanted to create exciting scripts which reflected our learning and speak clearly and expressively in such a way that our stories would hold the interest of our audience. Our animation mini-movies reflected the broad range of language abilities present in the class.

Jo Bogado
Panmure Bridge School
Auckland, NZ

St. Pius X School - Room 6 Creations

noreply@blogger.com (Manaiakalani Cluster) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:30:00 +0000

St Pius X School is a full Primary school made up of 156 students. In 2008 Room 6 (which is a Yr 7 & 8 class) has been part of the Manaiakalani cluster where we are using eLearning in our Literacy to make a difference in our Decile 1 students. In Room 6 we are focusing on the Writing aspect of Literacy.

We work with a Literacy Cycle which guides us through our writing process. It starts with investigating the genre and continues to evaluating and reflecting on our work.

In Room 6 we use our blog (Room 6 Creations) as our hook for motivating the students. During 2008 we blogged our writing in various forms such as straight word processing of texts, Movies that had been adapted from the children's writing and basic Photostories that the students put together from their recount writing.

By using the blog as a hook we were able to enhance the students writing by looking at the aspect of Audience and Purpose. The students were able to see through the blog that people World-wide were interested in what they had to say and write. This encouraged the students to think about their audiene and write accordingly.

Before this hook was introduced the students were not aware of their audience or the purpose of the writing other than writing for the teacher. This improved in 2008 and will hopefully continue to progress in 2009.

In 2009 Room 6 Creations is continuing with the project and we are looking forward to seeing our writing continue to progress.

Sarah Gleeson
St Pius X School
Auckland

Room 12 and 13 @ Pt England School

noreply@blogger.com (Manaiakalani Cluster) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:53:00 +0000

I teach a Year 4 class at Pt England School and my digital story telling project is part of the Manaiakalani EHSAS cluster. It's purpose is to raise student literacy achievement through engaging students in digital storytelling, and providing an authentic audience for their work.
I am up and running for my second year, integrating eLearning into literacy. Check out our class blog. The idea is to publish each literacy groups' learning online where they can be seen, and be able to see themselves, and reflect on their work.
Most of our digital stories are animated movies with voice overs. This example was around a group's Learning Intention of being able to identify and discuss and show imagery in poetry.

The Manaiakalani Project is being researched to follow the achievement and engagement of target students. The exciting news is that as well as keeping me motivated, interim findings have shown that last year children made better than expected progress in standardised testing.
Go Manaiakalani!

Juanita Garden
Pt England School

Tamaki College

noreply@blogger.com (Manaiakalani Cluster) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:20:00 +0000

I am the Graphics teacher at Tamaki College and was given the role of being the EHSAS lead teacher. This was an unusual move as the project is Literacy based! At Tamaki College, I wanted the main hook for our students to be getting their work online for everyone to see.
I started with the main blog, TCTV, where the students filmed aspects of college life, edited it together and uploaded short videos and photographs. I got 3 main groups of students involved from Year 11, 12 and 13 to be the film and editing crews.
The English department then got involved and we were working to our literacy cycle ( as shown) to publish the work they had produced online. We started with 2 blogs, both with Year 9 classes 9RNi and 9TVu.

Gradually over the year, more departments came on board with the project, each with their own blogs, to publish the work of the students to a wider audience. All of these blogs are linked to from the sidebar of the main TCTV blog. By having high profile events published on TCTV to attract the students' attention, the hope is that they will then explore the links to their curriculum blogs on the sidebar!
To include other departments in an initiative which is clearly English focussed, we asked all departments to ensure that as they published student material written explanations were included alongside the digital learning objects. And we ask our students to use formal English when commenting on curriculum based blogs. In this way we are providing the students with authentic opportunities to read and write, in particular.
My goal for 2009 is to continue with the blogs that are already started while including more teachers who want to become involved. I also want to get more student interaction with the site, so they all see what is happening and can leave comments.
One of the good things in 2009 is that one of the Year 9 classes from last year are continuing with the same blog into Year 10. This will enable them to be tracked on a more long term basis to discover the impact this project is having on their English work.
Karen Ferguson
Tamaki College

Year One Q-Tees

noreply@blogger.com (Manaiakalani Cluster) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:07:00 +0000

As one of the Manaiakalani EHSAS projects at Pt England School 6 five year old children were chosen to participate in a research project. The object was to improve the oral and written Language by motivating the children using an authentic audience. The children participated in the daily oral and written language programme following the Literacy Cycle.
When the children had edited their work they were supported by the teacher to practise reading their work to a high standard. The work was then recorded in iMovie and published in Flickr and on the class website. We found that the children became very keen to publish their work because they loved sharing it with their family and friends. However their best audience was themselves. They would all sit and watch themselves over and over again commenting on their performance. Over a period of months their confidence in front of the camera increased and the reading developed in phrasing and fluency. Their actual writing also developed but the quality depended upon the relevance of the topic to the children. The authentic audience proved to be a very powerful motivation for these small children.
In 2009 the same children are being included in the current work to see what the results will be in the future for their achievement in oral and written language, reading and their confidence to communicate in a range of settings. Their progress can be followed on their new blog, Going Places.
Delwyn Jarman
Project Lead Teacher

Documation

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Grant) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:58:00 +0000

I met Geoff and Phill, "The Simmonds Brothers" back in 2005 when we invited them to Auckland to speak to a group of enthusiastic educators about life, music and animation. They use a unique combination of real life stories, retold and recorded then set to their own very individual style of animation. Their most recent documation project, 'The Making of the Volunteers, the world's first animated reality series is chronicled weekly in a mash-up of documentary footage and cutting-edge animation'.

This mix really works as a medium for retelling stories and sharing 'voice'. The Simmonds share some of their films including some behind the scenes thinking on creating them. My favourite is Pearl, Florrie and the Bull.

Great to see some films by students mixing it up and has me thinking more broadly about student voice...see below from Onehunga High.

Embedding video in your blog post

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Grant) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:48:00 +0000

A response to Alison's recent comment...
"I've tried adding a couple of videos sourced from Youtube about 21st centuryteachers/kids/literacy.. on a post but had trouble embedding the codes ..any thoughts?"

I have found when embedding code in a blog post in Blogger that the software behaves itself better if I click the Edit Html button in the top right hand corner of the editing field. This turns any hyperlinks etc that you have included in your post into html. Then paste your code into the editing field and publish. I always use the edit Html button if I am embedding code for a video or another widget like slideshare, bubble share etc. It will look something like below( click image for larger view), you can see the code pasted after the initial text and that the Edit Html button has been clicked.

While on the subject of video and 21st Century teachers, I have recently posted on my cluster blog..."There are no natives here..." To engage with the technology simply to entertain without appreciating how it can be harnessed to make a difference to learning and consequently actions that are 'significant' involve development of new understandings about the technology for both teachers and students..."there are no natives here".
Michael Wesch explores these ideas and provides some useful frameworks, understandings and examples of a 21st Century teacher...well worth investing the time to listen and consider.

twitxr sounds like 'twitcha'

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Grant) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:33:00 +0000

Posted about twitter here last year when I added the TwitterLit widget to the sidebar of this blog. Have found twitter can be useful when I need help with something quickly. I also pick up alot of handy tips and links from the community 'tweets'. So for my immediate learning some definite advantages. I could also see the possibilities of using it as a collaborative tool to support a groups working on a project as accounts can also be set up as a private community.
Extending on this idea a link from Lenva led me to twitxr sounds like 'twitcha'...a variation on twitter using pictures. I am liking its potential as you can upload pictures from your phone capitalising on the 'moment'... now I just need an iPhone ;-)

Also had been looking at Nixit's A day in a year in a life project and thinking how twitxr could be utilised in similar ways. Nicki tells me she had been envisaging this idea used as a photo diary so twitxr would be a useful alternative especially with the phone upload. Also images and comments can be posted from anywhere and individual twitxr widgets inserted on any collaborative online spaces.

More twitter stuff here...have a look at Haiku-Tue: All Haiku, All Tuesday ( Thanks Summerland tweets)

Seven Habits of Highly Connected People

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Grant) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:58:00 +0000

This article by Stephen Downes reflects similar thoughts from a previous post on 'Students and Blog Talk' from the work of Konrad Glogowski

Seven Habits of Highly Connected People highlights the value of participating online in ways that can add value and impact positively on the ways in which we collaborate and communicate not only online but face-2-face.

Be Reactive
Go With The Flow
Connection Comes First
Share
RTFM
Cooperate
Be yourself

It is inspiring to see and read about educators who are reinforcing and supporting their students to share, connect and contribute in ways that require them to think purposefully about their participation.
Thanks to eLearn Space weekly blog summary for this link.

Post Script April 15th 2008: Just read this on my aggregator from Lenva Shearing at BBI, words which reflect the importance of eLearning and effective pedagogy.

ICT Community News

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Grant) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:19:00 +0000

Our ICTinEnglish Blog has been recommended on the TKI ICT Community News page, many thanks to Penny Harrison. It is worthwhile checking in on the community news page regularly as there are always new and valuable online resources highlighted, that will save you lots of time. Also listed is a link to work by Andrew Churches on a revised Blooms Taxonomy that recognises the impact of digital technologies on learning...well worth reading.

Also I would recommend that you register for Hot Topics a collection of online resources based around current topical events that relate to NZ and current world events. Again alot of the sourcing for quality web resources has been done for you. When you register you will be emailed out or you can access them directly online. The current Hot Topic is ANZAC

Online Collaborative Projects

noreply@blogger.com (Rocky) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:31:00 +0000

I would really appreciate your feedback on an online resource that I have been beavering away at : Handpicked Collaborative Projects is a site especially for NZ teachers and is a collection of pedagogically-sound, active, online collaborative projects. It means that as teachers come across projects and evaluate them that ‘the best ones’ can be shared. This site is still in its infancy stage but I hope your input will change that.
Cheers Rochelle Jensen: E-Learning Advisor, Uni of Waikato.

Students and 'Blogtalk'

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Grant) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:40:00 +0000

Questions around engaging students in blogging through commenting and responding to others is a challenge and has frequently been raised in posts here…with some great examples in NZ schools being shared in this blog. I picked this post up off my aggregator while catching up on some reading this weekend.

From Konrad Glogowski, the blog of proximal development. His latest post shares some interesting strategies he is exploring with his students around their participation and response to their learning within a wider community of learners, including peers and teachers.

“It’s not enough to know how to grow a blog, to pick a topic and keep contributing to one’s blog. Our students must also be aware of the class communities in which they learn”(Glogowski, 2008).

We often hear how peer pressure in social networking sites has resulted in negative implications. While todays' students have been labeled 'digital natives' I also wonder if in doing so we make an assumption that along with understanding how to access and use the technology, students also have an innate ability to participate with empathy and understanding in a digital environment? (I am sure we don't make these assumptions F2F). I was particularly interested to read how Konrad has harnessed the power of the learning community to support student learning. He is (like many NZ teachers) providing his students with opportunities and positive role models of what it means to ‘relate to others’ in an online environment.

Would be interested to read your thoughts on his post. If you leave a comment on Konrad’s blog please add a link to it in the comments here too.

Animation and Education at Learning@School

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Grant) — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:27:00 +0000

I have just returned from the Learning@School Conference in Rotorua for the ICT PD Cluster network. I wanted to bring to your attention the release of MARVIN. Promoted by the developers as “the world's fastest growing avatar (character based) animation and education resource development platform in the world”, it enables teachers and students to develop and share 3D content easily and without having to grasp a lot of new skills. The software comes with a library of animated characters that are also designed with a specific age group target. Users can then add background images, written text, text to voice as well as recorded voice in a language of choice.
The potential to create interactive content specific to learners’ needs and context as well as content that reflects cultural and social frames of reference makes this software potentially very appealing. Purchase price and licensing sounds reasonable (I suspect because of support from Microsoft) and schools can also access training. I have a demo disc so will be exploring this further with some teachers in our ICT PD cluster. Find out more and register online.
If you are using MARVIN with your students now or in the future please post a comment here or email me. It would be useful to see some NZ examples.

MARVIN is for Windows, however I was sitting with Dave Young at the presentation yesterday and he fired it up in Parallels on his Mac ( below left) and it seemed to behave itself a little better than the presenters copy ( below right)

tags technorati : learningatschool

2008

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Grant) — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:36:00 +0000

Greetings everyone and welcome to 2008.

Looking forward to continuing the development of this space as a team blog. The community welcomes contributions through commenting on individual posts however if you wish to post as an author visit the ICT in English wiki for instructions. See below for a couple of current events that you may be interested in exploring further.

If you are attending the Learning@School Conference in Rotorua from 19-22 February 2008 you may be interested in visiting the Bloggers Cafe, an opportunity for some face-to-face and a place where you can pick up some tips on blogging.

International Year of Languages
The following was posted on the List Serv by Roslyn Teirney (GATEWAYS Project Leader Ogilvie High School, Tasmania) and I thought it was worth including for ICT in English blog readers too.

2008 has been declared "International Year of Languages" by the U.N. General Assembly. It is described by Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, as "a unique opportunity to make decisive progress towards" ensuring "that the importance of linguistic diversity and multilingualism in educational, administrative and legal systems, cultural expressions and the media, cyberspace and trade, is recognized at the national, regional and international levels."
For more details see the wikipedia entry.

There is a gathering place for those wishing to support 2008 IYL on Facebook in the groups section of that fantastic networking site.

There were 100 members by Jan. 1 and 1000 on Jan. 23, and they are still aiming for 10,000 by International Mother Language Day, Feb. 21.

Blogs in Plain English

rachelboydsemail@gmail.com (Rachel Boyd) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:37:00 +0000

Finally it is here... the long awaited Commoncraft video "Blogs in Plain English".

I have been hanging out, eager to find out how it would be presented and keen to also use it in any presentations or with professional development I do with teachers.

So what's the big deal about blogs???
Watch and enjoy....

(video embedded below)

Cross posted from my edublog.