What a great session today - well I enjoyed it anyway! Our lead teachers all set up their own blogs - they all found it easy to do, with very professional looking results. The uses are varied:
- Janine and Julieanne set up class blogs for Room 5 at Mapua, and Room 9 at Motueka South. Within the hour the Motueka children had added comments with suggestions for their blog. Nathan wants to know if he can add his PowerPoint to the blog - sorry that's not possible, but what you can do is take a copy of one of the terrific drawings, paste it into 'Paint' and save it as a picture. This can then be uploaded to your blog (see drawing here teaching the Japanese word for 'rubber').
- A communication tool for Josh, our Outdoor Ed teacher to transmit information and photos to students and parents. With an option on the blog for parents to have an email sent when the site is updated, this will be very easy to manage. Of course the permanently archived entries will also be great - no more searching for old newsletters! Have a look at www.mhs-outdoored.blogspot.com
- St Peter Chanel - Jill created a team blog to replace the old email system of sharing photos and work with a teacher in Australia. I know this will be so much easier and far more exciting seeing your work on a webpage!
- Todd set up a department blog for the PE dept to communicate/discuss departmental issues - an easy way to have a discussion without being tied down to a meeting time.
- Kelvin created a blog for "A discussion of teaching and learning plus related issues surrounding Brooklyn School, Motueka". Really interesting first entry - why don't you have a look: www.brooklynmotueka.blogspot.com
- Sara's blog for the bi-lingual unit at Parklands, is "to comment on the mahi of our tamariki, keep in contact with the kaiako and enjoy the journey of learning with us".
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