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Sylvia Duckworth on Twitter: "New #sketchnote: Top 10 Reasons for Students to Blog cc @courosa @gcouros #blogging... Langwitches: Blogging as Pedagogy: Facilitate ... Blogging as Pedagogy: Facilitate Learning. The Benefits of a Classroom Blogging Community. For many teachers the idea of setting up a classroom Blog is overwhelming.

The Benefits of a Classroom Blogging Community

Web of Interactions This is why Virtual and Traditional Jigsaws in the Classroom has been structured in such a way as the encourage teachers to try the activities first to see whether the learning style works for them. 22 Top Blogging Tools Loved by the Pros. Do you blog?

22 Top Blogging Tools Loved by the Pros

Looking for exciting new tools to simplify the blogging experience? If so, keep reading. We decided to get the scoop on today’s hottest blogging tools. We asked 22 pros to share their favorite new finds. Here they are… #1: InboxQ Mitt Ray @MittRay A great blogging tool I discovered a few months ago is InboxQ. InboxQ lets you create campaigns with different keywords. You can work on these questions and come up with better blog topics in your area of specialty. Blogging. Blogs are the hottest new way to promote reading, writing, and thinking in all content areas and grade levels. Through this project, you’ll learn to create and integrate these “web logs” into your classroom. Using free, simple, online tools, you and your students can add digital photos, web links, and multimedia elements to bring writing alive!

If you want an easy way to promote thinking, address standards, promote information fluency, and promote collaboration, let’s blog! Before we jump into blogging, let's explore the possibilities. Compare the contents and approaches of these blogs and podcast. Author Visit at Elementary - author/classroom interaction (Lower Elementary) A Different Place - writing, reading, reflecting, creating (Upper Elementary) (Also check her professional blog and primary sources blog) Radio WillowWeb - podcasts (Upper Elementary) Mr. Five Years of Blogging. July 4th, 2012 will mark the fifth anniversary of ribbonfarm.

Five Years of Blogging

Now that I’ve completed a retrospective of five years worth of writing through the last month, I figured it was time to step back and put the whole thing together. Here’s the picture I came up with. Before I give you a tour of SES Ribbonfarm (that’s “Slightly Evil Ship”), some housekeeping matters. Flipping...It's Not Just For The Classroom. I've recently returned from a trip out to San Diego for #ISTE12.

Flipping...It's Not Just For The Classroom

While there you could definitely sense several themes with the participants, sessions, and vendors. STEM was one. iPad and other Tablet cases, charging stations and protection plans was another. But overall the biggest topic that people wanted to talk about was Flipping the classroom. How to Create Successful Student Blogging - Taking it to A Deeper Level. The 5 Best Blogging Tools for Students in K-12 Schools. Written by: Bright Hub Education Writer • edited by: Amanda Grove • updated: 7/31/2015 Today there are lots of creative blogging tools for students to use at school, but the five below are specifically catered towards a K-12 audience and come with lots of useful features for teachers and students.

The 5 Best Blogging Tools for Students in K-12 Schools

So, if you are itching to get your students online, consider the following options. Why Blogging? The benefits of blogging with students are quite numerous. It is a great platform for teaching online ethics, Internet safety, and the responsible role of a digital citizen. Student Blogging Resources. A Primer for Blogging. If you would like to get further into blogging, here is a brief primer: Get a blog.

A Primer for Blogging

(Easy: tumblr.com, wordpress.com, blogger.com. Better: host your own -affiliate link.) Pick an area of focus, but one that has broad sides. (Mine: helping people do digital business in a human way.) Blogging-unit.pdf. 21st Century Tools for Teaching-People and Learners. Take a fresh look at classroom blogging. Free Teaching Resources From Microsoft Education. #ASCD12-A Presentation On Creating Social Media Policies For Schools And Districts. There might be a problem with the requested link. The link you requested has been identified by bitly as being potentially problematic.

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This could be because a bitly user has reported a problem, a black-list service reported a problem, because the link has been shortened more than once, or because we have detected potentially malicious content. This may be a problem because: Some URL-shorteners re-use their links, so bitly can't guarantee the validity of this link.Some URL-shorteners allow their links to be edited, so bitly can't tell where this link will lead you.Spam and malware is very often propagated by exploiting these loopholes, neither of which bitly allows for. Leaders & Social Media: 5 Reasons to Engage « Leading in Context. Leaders and Information Overload In today’s world of work, we have to keep up with an overwhelming amount of informationscan trends and forecasts andincorporate the needs of multiple stakeholders into workable solutions.

Leaders & Social Media: 5 Reasons to Engage « Leading in Context

Our job is to make sense out of it all in order to make work life easier for those we lead. Since the world changes fast, we have to learn just as fast… and share it fast with our employees…and then adapt to what we’ve learned. Social media has become the fastest information media available, tackling emerging issues long before mainstream publications do. Five Important Reasons to Engage in Social Media 1. In today’s world that is connected at light speed, refusing to adapt to new communication channels means choosing to be out of the loop. 2. Social media is much more than “one more thing to do” – it’s how we do what we do in an information-connected society – and it’s an efficient filter for finding relevant information. 3. Lolly Daskal for Motivational Speaking, Leadership Development, Values, Vision, Culture, and Organizational Development, #leadfromwithin.

7 Organization Tips for Regular Bloggers. If you’re a regular blogger, you probably already know that staying organized can sometimes be a hassle.

7 Organization Tips for Regular Bloggers

From time constraints to cluttered blog posts, it can be easy to let your own blog overtake your sanity. However, by following some simple steps, you can not only be more organized in your blogging endeavors, but you can also save time and produce better quality posts. 1. Write Topic Ideas Ahead of Time. Looksee Fishy Fish. 83 Splendid Blog Post Ideas & Titles. By Christian Hollingsworth Finding great blog post ideas & titles can be difficult.

83 Splendid Blog Post Ideas & Titles

In an attempt to help, I’ve put together this list of 83 blog post ideas.