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Glow Blogs
What is a Blog?
- A blog is an easily up-datable page or set of pages on the web.
- It can be updated without any knowledge of html through a web based interface.
- No software is needed other than a web browser.
- The pages consist in the main of a series of articles, the most recent at the top.
- Previous articles are archived, organised and can be searched.
WordPress
- WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. (WordPress.org)
- WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites. (Wikipedia)
- WordPress powers nearly a quarter of the modern web.
- 74,652,825
Why Blog?
Lots of reasons:
- Communication
- Publishing: wider audience – conversation – makes it real
- Learn by – Doing/Reading – Writing – Reflecting – Sharing
Why Blog?
Rather than use another type of Publication, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Glow Group
There are a myriad of services that let you publish to the Internet and share, why choose to use a blog?
- It is not either or
- Ownership – Personalisation – Control
By the Way
Having a private blog is like going to a party with a paper bag over your head
Steve Wheeler
How You Doin’? photo by Flооd used under a CC licence.
And another thing
Text ≠ Text
engage with and create a wide range of texts in different media, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by ICT
Literacy Experiences and outcomes
How Blogs are being used in Teaching & Learning
Most of these examples from the > 160,000 Glow Blogs
Blogs as Forums
Blogs as Forums
Sharing ideas, resources and practise
With the World
Sharing personal reflection
School Websites
School Websites
Glow Partners
Professional Development
Teacher to Pupil
Classroom Blogging
More ways you could use Glow Blogs
- Audio & video (publishing pupils video, flipped learning, podcasting)
- Aggregation
- e-Portfolios (profiling)
The future
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