This presentation was prepared for one of the "Supporting the Challenge" workshops at the Flat Connections Conference in Sydney 2014. It was bootcamp style and covered some of the following:- Why blog? Where should we start with blogging? What are the necessary features of effective blogs for global understanding. Take a look at the need for categories, tags, images, videos and other media. What are some widgets that help empower global learning? Take a look at translate widgets, clocks, weather, badges etc

1. Starting and sustaining a
Blog
for global understanding
http://bit.ly/1i9Wn71

2. What is a blog?

3. Why blog for global connectedness?
•A readily available, accessible online site
•Provides an understanding of your country,
culture, ideals, experiences, learning in the
classroom etc
•Enables ongoing conversations through
comments
•Provides a rich learning space

5. Walking through a blog

6. Class blog

7. Student blog - Tayla
http://lov0003.global2.vic.edu.au/

8. How to add a post

9. Skype linkup with year 6 Lana
from Boston who taught
Australian students how to
create sprites in Scratch

10. Kailyn’s post

11. From a post by Beatriz (grade 4)
Learning about scratch with Lanna was great I reckon it
was magical the way she showed us the snow outside
it was the first time I ever saw snow. I asked a lot of
questions I was very interested in what we were
learning for example……
how long have you been using scratch? she had been
using it for 3 years which means she has a lot of
experience with scratch.

12. Embed google maps with pins to track connections

13. Comments
Keep the
conversations
going!

14. Comments

15. Global comments for conversations

16. Pages – About Me or Us
•General information
•No personal details
•Strong profile
•Handshake

17. About Me or About Us Page
Tips from Sue Wyatt

18. Know how to add…….

19. Clocklink
<script
src="http://www.clocklink.com/embed.js"><
/script> <script type="text/javascript"
language="JavaScript">obj=new
Object;obj.clockfile="5003-
orange.swf";obj.TimeZone="AEST";
obj.width=192;obj.height=16;obj.wmode="tr
ansparent";obj.DateFormat="yyyy / mm / dd
DDD";obj.TimeFormat="hh:mm:ss
TT";showClock(obj);</script>
Embed code

20. A weather widget

21. Translate widgets

22. Other widgets for global connections

23. To add powerpoint presentations
• Upload to slideshare
• Grab the code, add to a post!

24. Tags

25. Links

26. http://antoineta.wordpress.com
Learn to Translate

27. Some sample blogs
• Mrs Linda Yollis
• Dorothy’s Professional Blog
• Louise Morgan mrsmorganstarslog
• Anne Mirtschin: teacher blog, class teaching blog
• The edublogs awards
• Kathy Cassidy blog
Student blogs
• Tayla
• Georgia

28. Resources
•student blogging challenge
•teacher blogging challenge
•edublogs awards
•theedublogger

29. Adding a post to http://flatconnections.org

31. Consider…..
•Mobile apps
•Choosing a theme that suits mobile reading
•Joining a quadblogging group
•Taking part in the student blogging challenge
•Some countries may block blogging sites

32. Tips
•Post regularly
•Read other blogs
•Comment on others’ blog posts
•Share new posts on social media eg
twitter, facebook etc
•Let your blog take direction over time

33. eFind Me
mirtschin@gmail.com
Twitter: http:www.twitter.com/murcha
My blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com
Class blog: http://murch.global2.vic.edu.au
Tech Talk Tuesdays:
http://techtalktuesdays.global2.vic.edu.au