The recordings of yesterday’s Glow Meets are now online:
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.
What is a blog?
- A place online where you speak about your life.
- P7A – a website where you can share things
- You write stuff.
- Somewhere to share information for everyone to see
- A web-site that you tell people what you are doing
- Communication with others
- A social website where you can share information
- We think a blog is a place to communicate with others.
- A website
- P7 think its where you can write down whats happening and include pictures.
- An online conversion
- People can see your ideas
- A page someone sets up to get followers.
- S3 think it is writing a story and updating it online
- Share your learning and look at others learning.
- A regularly updated website.
- Somewhere you can find information out
- You can post pictures
- P6 think it is like an online diary.
- Updated regularly , quite informal
- Share photos and art work and get comments from parents
- Share info with people that are far away
- Sharing your opinion
- Share stuff that you’ve done
- You can post lots of things
- A bit like a scrapbook
- A memory record
- P3/4 think it’s a way of telling people what you are going to do or what you have done.
Where else do you post information?
- Twitter (7)
- Instagram (6)
- Snapchat (5)
- YouTube (4)
- School website (4)
- Facebook (4)
- Tumbler (2)
- Skype (2)
- Oovoo (2)
- Whats App (1)
- Videocall (1)
- Viber (1)
- Twitch (1)
- soundcloud (1)
- Redit (1)
- messenger (1)
- google (1)
- Glow… (1)
Why use a blog for learning?
- Share with the class
- To look back on your progress
- Share with other classes
- You can keep a track of your learning.
- Discussion, Q&A
- A memory
- We need to research properly and get the facts right!
- See what others are learning, inspires you to do other things
- To find out about other people around the world.
- To inform parents, share learning,
- To keep everyone updated.
- Research from others
- Helps you think about your learning
- To entertain!
- We are going to share our learning in the John Muir Award.
- Share learning
- People can share their learning conversations and learn from people all around the world.
- To learn from each other
- To store information
- Easy instant way to communicate and receive responses
What do you want to look like?
- Inspirational?
- How clever you are
- Be a role model
- Good, Ourselves, smart, sporty
- We want to appear to be sensible and smart.
- Intelligent, smart
- Responsible, nice, kind
- Trustworthy!
- Clever, witty, smart
- Influence people
- Knowledgable
- Think you are a nice person
- Someone who someone else would look up to
- Unique, colourful, user friendly, Photographs, Fabulous!
- We want to appear interesting.
- Smart, inspirational, funny and eager to learn!
- Be imaginative
- Awesome
