The power of multi-media blogging. This webinar was for the Spring Blog Festival on WiziQ.
Creator Dr. Nellie Deutsch.
Organisers: Sylvia Guinan and Shelly Terrell.
3. Why should kids blog?
How can it be fun and creative?
My Mammy
loves my art
and stories and
wants to help
me publish
them.
I like
recording my
voice with Voki
and
Voicethread.
We make
music
posters
I like
making
comics
We upload my
own photos and
pictures and turn
them into lessons
4. The fine line between parenting
and teaching
The home is a school and the school should be a
home
The key is play
5. Why should kids blog?
• Safe online
communities
• Social/emotional
intelligence
• Fun with multimedia
• Learning through play
• Happy learning zones
• Independent
thinking
• Exploring
• Experimenting
• Being
productive
• Seeing results
Digital
skills
Freedom
Self-
expressionArt
10. How can parents encourage their
kids to blog?
It’s all under the pillow
11. How can parents encourage their
kids to blog?
It’s all under the pillow
When your kids are at school write them
little poems, messages or jokes and put
them under their pillows. When they
come home they find the notes and read
them. I do this with acrostic poems
using their
names or things that are special to
them. Then they write their own without
me even asking them. We put them on
embeddable electronic posters with
With images etc.
12. How can parents encourage their
kids to blog?
The excitement of embedding
Make comics with your kids and embed them on
blogs.
Make electronic posters for all kinds of subjects.
Get your kids to brainstorm and mindmap through
blogs.
Use voice-recording tools
Embed spelling games software onto their articles
so that they practice spelling in fun ways and
learn how to self-correct and
edit their own work
13. How can parents encourage their
kids to blog?
52 ideas for blog posts by kids
Classroom blogging ideas
45 ideas for class blogposts
Blog ideas for the classroom
14. Psychology of blogging for kids
Promote sharing
Raise self-esteem
Allow feedback
Build interpersonal skills
16. Related presentationsRelated Presentations
Psychology of Story-telling
Creative Educational Technology
Listening and story-telling
Empathy in Education
Comics in Education
Social and emotional approaches to teaching with technology
17. Special interest niche
Are you a teacher or a Momblogger?
What do you love doing when you’re not working?
Do you like movies, music, art, stories, podcasts??
What would you like to see on your own blog?