Blogging+in+the+Secondary+Classroom

**Blogging in the Secondary Classroom.**  **Goal:**
 * 1) **Explore techniques to individualize your blog.**
 * 2) **Explore new ways to implement blogs in the classroom and implement 1 idea.**
 * 3) **Identify benefits and drawbacks of using a blog in classroom.**
 * 4) **Create a blog entry implementing at least 2 skills learned in today's session.**

**Blog Presentation**

Tutorials to help you >
 * Register for a blog
 * Choose a theme for your blog
 * Change your Password
 * Post a blog entry
 * Setting your privacy

Go here to find PDF directions on the same topics

For more advanced bloggers go to my [|Edublog] for tutorials on:
 * Embedding a Link(also works for YouTube sharing links)
 * Adding pictures to your posts
 * Upload and Embed a video
 * Adding Friends

Links to a range of other blogs
 * Cool Cat Teacher Blog - a blog on technology run by a teacher
 * Dangerously Irrelevant - Scot McLeod's blog
 * Edutopia - great site sorted into grade level, more than blogging from the George Lucas Educational Foundation
 * Official Google Blog - Google's blog on...everything
 * Rapid E-Learning Blog - Run by Articulate, an awesome E-learning software
 * Huffington Post - Blog run by the aforementioned news dispersion site
 * White House - Official blog of the US White House