For this 5 hour online module, you will learn about blogging, create a blog, and plan your first lesson for integrating your new blog into your instruction.
This course is created by Laurie LeFever who is an Instructional Technology Integration Specialist at the Central New York Regional Information Center (CNYRIC). CNYRIC serves 50 school districts and 4 BOCES across 8 counties in the central region of New York State.
This course requires a minimum of 5 hours time for successful completion. It is an online course, but face-to-face support will be offered on demand if you feel you need it. Just reach out via email to set up an appointment with the instructor: llefever@cnyric.org
The final deadline for all course activities is Monday, August 3. If you need additional time, please reach out to your course instructor.
Your Learning Style & Work Habits:
This course is likely to be quite different than any other course you've ever taken. As you will discover, learning online requires a different approach than sitting in a workshop. It requires much more discipline and self-direction than a face-to-face (F2F) course. If you find you are having difficultly, please stop into one of the Drop-In Office Hour sessions listed above or contact the instructor for support.
Your Computer/Equipment:
There simply is no way around spending a lot of time in front of a computer to be successful in an online workshop. Your computer and Internet connection must be reliable, and you have to be able to use them regularly. You may want to use Google's Chrome Web Browser. Furthermore, if you don't already have one, you may want to consider creating a Gmail account solely for school. You will use your Google profile to identify your posts on this blog. It is always wise to separate personal from professional. Just make sure you keep track of usernames and passwords for the accounts you will create during this module.
Your Internet Connection:
Since this is an online workshop, you will be spending a lot of time logged on to the Internet. If you have dial-up service at home, you will find that this course has media elements that are likely to be clunky and slow. You might want to find a faster connection around town.
Instructor Contact Information:
Laurie LeFever, LMS
CNYRIC
6075 E. Molloy Road
Syracuse, New York 13221
llefever@cnyric.org
Without further ado, let's get started!
First, please add a comment to this post introducing yourself:
Then, scroll down to the next post to start your own blogging!
First, please add a comment to this post introducing yourself:
- Who are you?
- What do you do?
- Where do you do it?
- What is your goal for taking this workshop?
Note: Your post will not appear until approved by the instructor, so don't panic when you cannot see your introduction right away!
Then, scroll down to the next post to start your own blogging!
My name is Tracy Brady. I teach French and Spanish at East Syracuse-Minoa. I am taking this class to freshen my blogging skills, and get some new ideas for blogging with my students more successfully.
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DeleteMy name is Liz Cannella. I am the special educator half of a Living Environment co-teaching team at North Syracuse Junior High. My co-teacher and I are taking this workshop together and looking to add another method of student response/interaction to our technology repertoire.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Liz!
DeleteHello Liz! Looking forward to creating an excellent resource for our students to utilize for our Science Literacy assignments!
DeleteMy name is Diane LaChance and I teach 9th grade Living Environment at the North Syracuse Junior High School alongside my awesome co-teacher Liz Cannella. I will be honest, I have not blogged or followed a blog.......ever! I am very interested in learning what this is all about and implementing a blog into my curriculum that my students follow and respond to.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Diane!
DeleteHi! I'm Michelle Currier and I teach Vocal/General Music at Minoa Elementary in the ESM district. I am taking this class because as a specials teacher, I have 400 sets of parents to connect with. I'd like to utilize a blog to keep parents up to date on what students are working on in music class and to help communicate performances.
ReplyDeleteHey Michelle! So glad you're taking this too! :) We should chat FON!!
DeleteWelcome Michelle!
DeleteTracy - Sounds great! :) Laurie - thanks! :)
DeleteHi! My name is Kimberly Holmes. I teach 8th grade English at Durgee JHS in Baldwinsville. I've never entered the realm of blogging with my classes and am looking to use this as an introduction and to possibly forage into the blogging world with a group of students that need an extension of English class to push them further than I can in the traditional classroom.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Kimberly!
DeleteHello, my name is Kimberly Marano. I am a special education teacher in a co taught 8th grade classroom. I teach at the North Syracuse Junior High School. I have never blogged before so I am very excited to try something new. I look forward to seeing how I can use this in our classroom.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Kimberly! It worked!
DeleteHi Kim! I am new to this whole process too! Can't wait to see what it has in store for us!
DeleteI am Teresa McCarthy, a 6th grade ELA teacher at Gillette Rd. Middle School in the North Syracuse district. I am interested in another form of writing- author's purpose (who's your audience?).
ReplyDeleteWelcome Teresa!
DeleteMy name is Stephanie Locke. I teach fifth grade at DeRuyter. My goal is to build better communicators and writers through daily blogging in the classroom. I would like to incorporate this with a flipped classroom.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Stephanie!
DeleteMy name is Heather Buff and I teach 5th grade at State Street School in Skaneateles. I am also the Science and STEAM teacher for 5th grade in my district. I am hoping to find a way to use blogging regularly with my students rather than just as an "add on". I have used a blog in the past for special events like following an Odyssey of the Mind team to Worlds, but I would like to make it a regular piece of our daily work.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Heather!
DeleteHow to effectively integrate blogging into my classroom:
ReplyDeleteWith all the changes because the common core I feel that I can use blogging daily in any subject. I think that I could utilize it as a ticket out the door to start with that way I can find out what the kids know and what I need to spend more time teaching. I would like to incorporate it with the flipped classroom. One struggle that I am going to have is Technology. we are somewhat limited and I can typically have around six devices at a time. My plan right now is to have centers and be able to rotate the students so that I can meet each individuals needs but yet find out where they are at and what I can do to help them. I want to incorporate blogging into my daily writing as well. It seems as if students have the ability to communicate with one another they Will become more confident overall with their writing and speaking. I have about 30 minutes of writing time daily and would like to have blogging replace a typical lesson.
Great ideas Stephanie! Yes, you definitely need access to the tools! Centers is a great way to get started. Anyone have any center experiences to share?
DeleteMy name is Christene Rolfe. I teach 8th grade English at Durgee Junior High in Baldwinsville. I have used blogging before as a platform for a research project, but I have never used it as true blogging. I am excited to try it this year with my students. My goal is to learn some strategies on how to manage and keep up with all of the posts and work that go with using something like this. I'm really good at starting something like this and not following through because I become too overwhelmed.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Christene!
DeleteHi! My name is Audrey Wilder and I am a special education teacher at Wheeler Elementary in grades 4 and 6 in the Onondaga Central District. My goal is to learn how to set up and manage blogs within the co-teaching sixth grade classroom. I especially want to try blogs with my special education students that are overwhelmed with paper and pencil tasks!
ReplyDeleteWelcome Audrey!
DeleteMy name is Lisa Roffo. I teach 5th grade in NSCSD. I look forward to getting my students to blog in Science and Social Studies.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Lisa! Thanks for persevering!
DeleteHi! My name is Eric Nash. I am a 5th grade teacher at DeRuyter. I am excited to learn about blogging. I hope to use blogs for homework and to show parents what we do in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Eric!
DeleteHi, my name is Kristin Wallace. I teach 4th grade at Onondaga CSD. My goal is to use my blog to update parents about what we are learning in the classroom and have students post to the blog to accomplish this task.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Kristin!
DeleteHi, my name is Seth Benjamin. I am a 5th grade teacher in Skaneateles. My goal is to integrate a classroom blog in to my day to day activities. I hope students and parents will interact and it will further communication.
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