The first two days of school after the Chinese New Year holiday were dedicated to Professional Development. I was asked to present three sessions.
Most of our teachers started blogging this school year for the first time in their life. I’m still amazed by the fact that not once did administraiton ask them to blog…. they did however ask teachers to communicate with parents.
The PD session was titled “I’ve Got a Blog – Now What?” because teachers have achieved what has been asked of them… they are communicating with parents using their blogs. But we can all be doing so much more! The three things we decided that we want from our blogs are:
- Build our Teacher/Professional Online Profile
- Communicate and celebrate the learning in our classes for parents
- Make our teacher blogs a place of “1st contact” for our students before they collaborate on the wikis and Nings
I used several resources for the Keynote (which I converted to a PowerPoint). Thanks to my PLN for all of they great resources they share!
Applet used to show teacher blops as a graph.
How to link to other people in a blog post movie.
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