This presentation was given at the NZ Google Apps for Education Summit in Auckland. The practical tips start on Slide 18! Many of the slides have Video tutorials which are in Vimeo, not YouTube. Access these tutorials from here https://sites.google.com/a/ptengland.school.nz/blog-rollover/setting-up-individual-blogs The workshop was designed to share tips on how to manage multiple blogs in a class. The experience of the Manaiakalani Cluster has been developed over several years and 1000+ studen

1. Blogging
Explosion
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3. Goals for our Students
• have opportunities to develop personal voice
• have an authentic audience
• have a digital age learning environment
• become engaged in their learning
• become creators of content, not just consumers
of content
• have raised achievement outcomes
Confident Connected Actively Involved
Life Long Learners

5. In the beginning

6. Manaiakalani via EHSAS

7. http://manaiakalani.blogspot.com

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10. Inspiration
Helen Squires
Myles Webb
Jenny She
Sarah Gleeson
Allanah King
Jan Zawadzki
Mia Szymanik

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12. pedagogy

13. practical
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14. Class blog
getting started

18. • Blog naming system
• URL system eg pes+firstname+firstletter
• Create a ‘Super Admin’ email address
• Teacher Dashboard or go it alone?
Getting organised

19. Getting organised

20. Getting organised

21. Getting started

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23. Getting started

24. Getting started

25. verifying

26. • Using the Blogger Settings well
• Teacher Dashboard
• Dedicated email account
monitoring interactions

27. monitoring interactions

28. monitoring interactions

29. monitoring interactions

30. • Those near and dear
• The twitterverse
personal voice

31. personal voice

32. @clusternz
personal voice

33. personal voice

34. CyberSmart

35. kind
thoughtful
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CyberSmart

36. Year 5 bloggers

37. Cluster-wide implementation
The Manaiakalani Schools
Year 1-13
manaiakalani.org

38. Parents: Informed Participation
Transparent Accessible Informed

39. manaiakalani.org

40. http://manaiakalani.blogspot.com
dorothy@ptengland.school.nz
http://goo.gl/xnvMO
dorothyjburt

41. The obvious next step from a successful class blog is
creating individual blogs for each student. And once each
student has a blog you have to think school wide or what
happens to the blogs at the end of the year? This is very
exciting and has proven to play a successful part in raising
student achievement outcomes. But in practical terms,
how do you manage multiple blogs? Using Blogger as the
obvious blog platform the Manaiakalani Cluster of schools
have nearly 1000 blogs and have implemented some very
practical solutions to ensure that they are effective
learning tools. In this session you will be shown how we
manage the practical aspects of creating blogs at the class,
individual student, school and cluster levels. NB: We will
presume that you already know how to create and
manage one blog.