At an unconference in Auckland yesterday, Jill Hammonds showed me this little blogging client that she uses with her wordpress blog. I think I’ll try it in class instead of the SRWare option I have at the moment.
BlogDesk
Update: Takes its proxy settings from internet explorer, but has no way to work with proxy servers that [...]
So here’s my audio-post. I got over the fact that I don’t like to hear my recorded voice, wrote a script and read it out (most of it). There were a few mistakes and err…umms along the way, but I just did what I tell the kids to do, “Keep going, we can edit the [...]
Earlier this week I left a comment (which I later turned into a blogpost) on this post by @wmchamberlain and was invited, via Twitter, to be a contributor at “At the Teacher’s Desk” As I’d already identified audio and video of myself as a personal dislike I decided that the first step in “walking the [...]
I was tagged a couple of days ago by @moodlegirl on Twitter to complete the “Seven Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me” meme. The list just kind of evolved. I kept adding ideas to geistesblitz and then got to work. There were other things that I deleted and yet more that could have been [...]
Whichever blogging platform you decide to use, Windows Live Writer can be used to publish to it.
Installing is easy enough, just go to Windows Live and download the latest version. Make sure you only select Live Writer for download, unless you want the other Live programs offered. When installing uncheck the boxes that ask if [...]
The next thing to consider is how to use these tools yourself and then introduce them to the class.
I started of by publishing all children’s work myself. Usually I would say, "When you’ve finished that piece of writing I’ll publish it on the blog".
For an item brought to share with the class I’d photograph it [...]
Ink Blog Plugin
Update – first classroom use here.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fteachernz.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F10%2F21%2Finking%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Inking’;
addthis_pub = ”;
