Session+2

Waldwick Academy: Free Educational Web 2.0 Tools

**Session 2 - Janauary 24, 2012**

__**Topic**__:

Creating educational blogs. How to articulate your blog's goals, select a platform, design a template, write posts, add guest bloggers, manage comments, and add gadgets and widgets.

**__Blogging in Plain English__** - @http://youtu.be/NN2I1pWXjXI

__**Reasons for creating an educational blog**__:
 * To share student work with parents and an authentic audience.
 * To extend your students' learning environment outside the walls of the school building.
 * To communicate thoughts, ideas, and resources with the professional educational community.

__**Examples of Educational Blogs**__ >
 * ** Classroom Blogs **
 * "Mrs. Yollis' Classroom Blog" - @http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/
 * "Mr. Salsich's Class" - @http://jmsalsich.edublogs.org/
 * "Mr. Buxton's 5th Grade Class" - @http://mrbuxton.blogspot.com/
 * "Mrs. Wanack's Classroom Blog" - @http://ppsblogs.net/annalisawanack/
 * "D. Brosius' Virtual Classrom" - @http://dbrosius.edublogs.org/
 * ** Student Blogs **
 * Jaden's Awesome Blog -@http://jadensawesomeblog.blogspot.com/
 * Miriam's Magical Moments - @http://victoria-miriamsmoments.blogspot.com/
 * Jake's Online Journal - @http://mjgds.org/students/jakeg/
 * ** Educator Blog **
 * Free Technology for Teachers - @http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
 * ** Blog Challenge **
 * "Challenge Yourself to Blog: Student Blogging Challenge" (Sponsored by Edublogs) - @http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/
 * **Edublog Awards 2011** - @http://edublogawards.com/

__**Platforms**__
 * Blogger (Owned by Google) - @http://www.blogger.com/
 * Edublogs -@http://edublogs.org/
 * Wordpress -@http://wordpress.com/

__** Resources **__
 * Educational Blogging Wikispace - http://educational-blogging.wikispaces.com/
 * Mrs. Yollis' "Blogging" Webpage - http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/yollis/blogging.cfm
 * Mr. Salsich's Blogging Guidelines - @http://jmsalsich.edublogs.org/blog-guidelines/
 * Mr. Salsich's How to Comment - @http://jmsalsich.edublogs.org/how-to-comment/