The Glow Meet will be on Tuesday 5th May at 2pm instead of Monday.

https://meet.glowscotland.org.uk/bootcamp

Technical: Questions from the floor. Please email me any questions before the meet if you can.

Discuss: How are you going to maintain your blog. By now you have been blogging for at least 10 weeks, it might be a good idea to review how it is going. It is also a good time to think about how you will manage the blog longer term. Who will post? When will they have the time?

I would also like to collect some feedback on the bootcamp, I will probably send out yet another email next week with either some questions or a link to a survey.

Challenge: #ShareOurLearning
We have set up another blog:
#shareourlearning

The idea is to let class and school blogs share posts with each other by ‘sending’ some of their best posts to this blog.

This is how:
Create a new category or tag on your blog: shareourlearning
Make a post using that category or tag
Visit the page to join ShareOurLearning

And fill in the form, you will need the URL of your post.

I’ll add your blog into the mix. Whenever you have an interesting post that showcases what you are learning, categorize it shareourlearning, it will be cross posted to the #ShareOurLearning blog.

Once you are set up the cross posting happens automatically, it can take up to an hour to appear on the sharing blog.
Anyone trying to leave a comment on your post will click on the link and that will take them to your own blog.

This project is not limited to the bootcamp class blogs from around Scotland are invited to join in.

As usual get in touch if you have questions or need a hand.

Although the bootcamp is over I am always happy to talk about blogging:-)

As usual the GlowMeet will take place at 2pm Monday afternoon 27th April

http://meet.glowscotland.org.uk/bootcamp

This weeks we are breaking from, technical, discuss, do pattern as there is not much tech involved.
If you are missing that you might like to check out the new Jetpack plugin, I’ve started a blog showing some of the features at:
Jetpack
There is more to come.

Discussion,: making connections, why would you want to. In what way will having partners and groups help you learn.

Challenge: We will look at Quad blogging and 100 word challenge
Our challenge this week is to take part in the 100wc
http://100wc.net/2015/04/26/week-30-2-2/

There is a requirement for class teachers to sign up before their class start submitting work.

You do NOT need to do this:-) 

I’ve contacted the organiser and have stood in as teacher for submissions from  Glow blogs.

What your pupils need to do is:

1. Write a blog post responding to the challenge. (Remember to categorise it bootcamp.)
2. Copy the url to their post.
3. Use that url to fill in the form on the 100wc post, same link; http://100wc.net/2015/04/26/week-30-2-2/​

We have now had 9 weeks of the bootcamp, so next week will be the last one.

As always please get in touch if you have any questions or think I can help.

As usual the GlowMeet will take place at 2pm this (Monday 20th April) afternoon:

http://meet.glowscotland.org.uk/bootcamp

The weeks program:

Technical Media: audio, video, embeds…

From the Glow Blog help, Adding Media: Download: Audio and Video MS docx | Audio and Video PDF

Discussion

Why would you use, text, images, audio, video

Challenge

Make posts using different media:
Create some media, Audio or Video about your learning, post it to your blog.
Find an interesting video on youTube or Vimeo and post that to your blog.

Notes: Clustermaps had some problems just after we suggested using the service. You need to go through the process of setting up an account again and replacing the code in the widget.

Sue,The Edublogger suggested we could add our blogs to their list:
CHECK OUT CLASS BLOGS!

As usual the GlowMeet will take place at 2pm this afternoon:
http://meet.glowscotland.org.uk/bootcamp
The weeks program:

Technical Blogrolls AKA Link lists

We will look at how to add a link list to the side of our blogs.
Link lists can be used to provide links or sets of links for all sorts of purposes.

For class blogs they are particularly useful for linking to other classes that you may become involved with or giving your pupils quick access to resources for learning.

Discussion

It is probably a good idea to start thinking about Community now.

Community is very important in blogging but less formal than in other online learning spaces.
Think about who your blogging friends are. Who you should have on your link role. With class blogging it can be very powerful to make informal links, usually via comments with other like minded bloggers. This can be local or at the other side of the world.

You can also find a list of the home page for each LA which in turn will list the 40 most recently updated blog here: Glow Blog Links

Here are couple of lists of blogs that are elsewhere in the world.

http://edublogs.org/directoryclass/

https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1yyy9W1fylB291-OifEwZ7MtOVGXz21IzCLiZ8rXtsZQ&hl=en&pli=1

Some of the links will be dead by now, but some will still be active. The second list has some details about the classes involved

Blogging Challenge

Find some inspiration.
Visit some other class blogs, see if you can find something interesting that you could blog about or give a response to.

Blog about this, linking to the post that inspired.

Remember to categorise you posts bootcamp.

We will have a two week break from the bootcamp for the Easter holidays. After today the next week will begin: 20th April 2015

This week we want to think about how we are ‘looking’. Both in theme of the blog’s appearance and in the impression we make to visitors.

Technical

Custom Header Image | Glow Blog Help
Downloads: Adding a Header MS docx |  Adding a Header PDF

After week one you might like to find out a bit more about categories and tags.

Talk

Have a discussion (with your class if you are working with a class) about the impression we make to visitors to our site. What do we want to look like? Is our content appropriate? Will it give a good impression of our class and school. Do we publish information that will put us at risk?

You could blog your about your discussion and remember categorise it bootcamp.

Blog

This weeks blog challenge is to blog a bio poem as an introduction to yourself or your class. (feel free to do this in another way if you can think of something more fun).

You could do this as a whole class or individually.

Here is a help sheet from readwritthink:

Bio Poem Help Sheet

Here is an example from 2007 on the class blog I was running: