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Week 2 Glow Meet and Notes

The recordings of yesterday’s Glow Meets are now online:
2pm Pupils Meet

4:15pm Staff Meet

You need your Glow username and password to view them. Hopefully these will help if you did not make the meeting.

It is easy enough to follow the bootcamp without using the meets, as I hope all necessary instructions are in the weekly blog posts.

Remember all of the information about week two is in the blog post:
Blogging Bootcamp Week 2
Where you can pick up the bio poem template.

I’ve added a post about finding images
Finding Images | Blogging Bootcamp #2
Whit a few suggestions about where to get pictures for your blog. If you know any more leave a comment on that post with a link.

Your bootcamp posts are flowing into the bootcamp blog

Please visit them and leave comments. This can be a good way to model writing online for pupils if you are starting blogging. try to to encourage pupils to write about the suggested challenge topics if they are categorising their posts bootcamp.

Remember posts need to be categorised bootcamp to get pulled into the bootcamp.

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Week 1 Glow Meet Notes

The recordings of yesterday’s Glow Meets are now online:

2pm Pupils Meet

4:15pm Staff Meet

You need your Glow username and password to view them. Hopefully these will help if you did not make the meeting. It is easy enough to follow the bootcamp without using the meets, as I hope all necessary instructions are in the weekly blog posts.

The posts for some early birds are starting to appear here on the bootcamp blog. Please visit them and leave a comment. This can be a good way to model writing online for pupils if you are starting blogging.

In the staff meet I did not really discuss any classroom organisation. It may be worth mentioning that I have found share writing a good way to start, this lets you set standards and model the writing you are looking for.

In the pupil meet we had a lot of response to discussion points, which I’ll add below, these may help in starting discussion in your own classrooms.
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