Blogs in Schools

Here are some examples (some from Pam Thompson) of blogs being used by schools in a variety of ways:

Pam’s blog  -  http://pamthompson.edublogs.org/

Corrimal East Public School – http://www.corrimaleps.blogspot.com/

Comic Life

A great example of Comic Life from the PlasQ site –  Robert Fripp and Tony Levin  sharing the day-to-day stories of touring within one of the most influential prog rock bands – on King Crimson’s 40th Anniversary Tour  -  http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=11389

A reminder of how to use Comic Life in the Classroom  -  http://www.macinstruct.com/node/69

TeacherTube has a great video on Comic Life  -  http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=cc5b9f5a2aaa74da584e

Some examples of Student work from the Comic Life Community Forum  -  http://homepage.mac.com/adam_bezark/comiclife/

Great primary sites and activities

The ‘Read On’ site of Beenleigh State School has links to numerous English activities  -  http://www.beenleigss.eq.edu.au/requested_sites/sounds/index.html

Healthy Sanger Day and Science Planning – the students have used Comic Life and podcasts on this site – http://beachlands.wordpress.com/

Blogs

There is a group for bloggers both new and old at Edna.  You can join various interest groups free of charge by registering on-line, but this one has examples of blogs, blogs in the classroom, how blogs can be used etc  -  http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1862

Web 2.0 Tools

This site has been set up for school library media specialists to learn about new web tools – http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/

Another site for Web 2.0 tools – http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html

Quality Teaching Programme

This site has been developed as a result of the Quality Teaching initiative – check the Quick links – http://www.qtp.nsw.edu.au/

Web 2.0

A great resource for Web 2.0 – what, where and how!!!  -  http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/

Web 2.0 for the Classroom

This site has been collated by Sue Summerford and includes Web 2.0 Tools for use K – 12

http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html 

Blogging for Learning

An excellent site from Edtechlife – Blog if you love learning: An Introduction to Weblogs in Education.

The site itself is a wiki -  http://blogifyoulovelearning.wikispaces.com/

Google and all that you can do with a Google account

Thanks to a post on Drape’s Takes from Darren Draper in the US – this list is a very comprehensive list of ‘free stuff’ from Google – http://drapestakes.blogspot.com/2007/06/why-every-teacher-should-have-google.html