Hi all...I just realized that I should have posted this chapeter's question yesterday. I have been really busy for the last couple days so..please bear with me. I will post the question by tomorrow morning.
Again..l am sorry for forgetting to post the question on time, I will try to be better next time.
This chapter talks about school (teacher/student/principal) leaders and how more schools are moving from traditional to transitional leadership where everyone takes a role in moving the school forward.
I am interested in 3 lines on page 132 (print). "Teacher leaders are first expert teacher learners..." "Teacher leadership is not about power itself but about mobilizing other teachers' potential to improve performance." And "Teacher leadership occurs when a teacher shares with other teachers what works (or hasn't worked) in her or his own classroom in an effort to improve performance for all the students in the school."
So...let's practice being expert learners by setting up blogs to talk about what works or doesn't work in the classroom (or to talk about any topic you want). If you already have a blog - make a blog post about a topic of your choice, tweet and share it with the group. (Also...feel free to share any tips for blogging with the group). [My first tip is use a URL shortener to make blog URLs more manageable in tweets and posts. You can use google to find one.]
Sandy...you might investigate doing a video blog since you are our resident "video expert"
MaryRose...please share your experiences using blogs.
There are many blogs that you can use. Here are two that you might want to try.
We have been using Blogger all summer and I really like it. Here is the website and the support page for the information about getting started.
http://www.blogger.com/home https://support.google.com/blogger/
MaryRose has been using Edublogs. You might want to investigate this one. Again...I have included the support information.
http://edublogs.org/. http://help.edublogs.org/getting-started-with-edublogs/
I have been wanting to start a blog for a very long time. After reading The Connected Learner I was given the jumpstart to try it out. But where do I begin? How do I determine which Blog site I wanted to use? So I put the question out to Twitter. I figured that there were many professionals out there that could give me good advice. I got a response that told me to begin one on Wordpress.com. I took a look at it and even began working on my first blog. However, do you know how sometimes things just dont feel right? Well that is how I felt. It was not because it is not a good resource because it is, but I just didn't feel "at home". Then I saw a blog from edublog.com and registered. It was easy to set up and as I started I felt "at home".
ReplyDeleteI knew when I started the blog I needed to make the site reflect/represent me, but at the same time make it professional enough that I would be taken serious. I am currently using the free version but on my dashboard it tells me that I am using 17% of my 32 MB. So I am going to assume that once that is used I will begin to be charged it I want to continue. I checked into using the professional version and it costs 4.98 a month and if I purchase for a year, it averages to 3.33 a month.
One of my goals is to start a class for my students but in order to do this, I will have to upgrade to professional.
So far I have only posted twice, but I am having fun working with the different free layouts. Once I post I am able to shorten the URL, copy and past it to Twitter if I choose. But once I upgrade to Professional I will be able to add the Facebook and Twitter icons to the page. I will also be able to design my own layout. So as you can tell I am probably going to upgrade for at least a few months, see how it goes and then go from there. I will keep you posted on how things are going.
Well while investigating edublog I noticed that there is the Worldpress logo beside my blogs name. So...I guess Edublog is part of Worldpress. The one feature about edublog is it advertises to be the leading education blogging service. So those blogging are in education. When I went to the different communities I didnt see Special Education so I requested it be added. I love learning new things. Its just fun, sometimes frustrating when I dont know all the 'language' but it sure is fun. And I did go professional :)
ReplyDeleteMaryRose. Please share a link to your blog here so every one can take a look.
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DeleteI already had a blog I started for an online class. I updated and rewrote parts of a post on social media in the classroom. My views and issues keep changing, depending on how much I use certain tools.
ReplyDeletehttp://nhollisswjcs.blogspot.com/2013/06/social-media-in-classroom.html
Hi all. I found this today in a Diigo bookmark and thought it was an excellent tool to help us all blog faster. I will definitely print it so I can refer to it often, I put it on our Connected Educator Pinterest board, but wanted to make sure that everyone had access...so here you go: http://www.edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/write-faster.jpg
ReplyDeleteI found this to be the hardest task of the summer. I have never thought of myself as writer; so starting a blog is a daunting task. I did start a blog on flipping the classroom at Edublog. I finally decided it could be a place I could record my ideas on how to make the flipped classroom better. I'm not sure how useful this will be for me, but as always I am willing to give it a try. I'm not sure if I set up everything correctly, but I was able to make a first post. http://skrisk.edublogs.org
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