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Posted on April 23, 2012 by vabland

Here are more sites for you to evaluate along your journey to create your PLN.  Mahalo!

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HS Online Communication: Tuesday, 4/26

Posted on April 26, 2011 by vabland

Classwork & Homework

1. Create a link to your photo gallery.
2. Discuss the content which you’ve uploaded to your blog since our last class.
3. Join a PD community; post and/or reply to a comment
4. Be prepared to share about the PD community you joined (how is this community useful to you as a resource for teaching and learning?)

Online Communication tools for professional use and development:
1. Don Tapscott
2. Innovative Educator
3. Classroom 2.0
4. Edutopia
5. Twitter

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Question for 3/31 class

Posted on March 31, 2011 by vabland

What makes a good educational blog?  Your answer should be at least two sentences long.  Have a wonderful weekend.

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ES/MS Online Communication: Thursday 3/31

Posted on March 31, 2011 by vabland

Please complete the assignments below by our next class meeting on 4/7.

1. Post a comment on the course blog post titled “What makes a good educational blog?”
2. Develop your own or find classroom guidelines for student posts and review with your students. Here is a good place to start your search: http://www.techlearning.com/article/Blogs/23336
3. Create a new post in your blog for your students to comment on, related to a current classroom activity
4. Create a static page on your blog
5. For our next meeting, please come to class with at least 2 digital files of photos to post on your blog. Have an idea of where you would like to place these photos.

Today during class you will learn about:

What is a Tag?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/
What is the Difference between a Category and a Tag?
Adding Tags to a Post

Adding Comments to a Post
Setting comment options as an administrator
Suggested guidelines for student posts
Guiding your students to publish appropriate posts
Moderating comments

Blogs – Creating Pages
What are Pages?
What is the Difference between a Post Page and a Static Page?
Adding additional static pages

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March 10, 2011: ES & MS Online Communication

Posted on March 10, 2011 by vabland

Please complete the following assignments prior to the next time we get together for class on March 31st.

1. Create and publish a post
2. Assign a category to your post
3. Please incorporate one item from our discussion today into your blog.
4. Enjoy your Spring Break!!!

In class we discussed:
What is a category?
Using categories to organize your blog site.
Creating a category
Editing a category
Assigning a category to a post
Deleting a category

Setting up your iGoogle account
Adding Tabs
Deleting Tabs
Adding Gadgets
Deleting Gadgets

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