Educational Technology and Life: Edublogs Edition

Do all odd problems 1-1000 and all word problems.

You can also insert word, excel, powerpoint, and pdf files, like this one: appendixc

You can insert MP3 files into your post! blue-dreams-20

You can also add video directly into edublogs! rbusd-demo

Now you can add pictures, movies, documents etc, just as easy (well, almost) as adding an attachment to an email. Check this out.

If you align your picture to the right and put it at the beginning of the post it looks like a newspaper article – like this.

You have rich text features, like bold, italics, and even:

Block quotes for stuff you lift from elsewhere.

You can add links… to, say, the RBUSD site or other resources.

Type a title, type the body of your post, and hit the publish button. Easy, eh?

Go surfing.

Write a 100 page paper about the experience.

I’m back in Redondo asking these three familiar questions:

1. What is a blog? Like a diary – an online diary. It can be like a newsletter. It can be interactive. It’s like an online conversation. MySpace is like a blog. (It has a blog in it.) Blogs can be used to share artwork and events. What is a blog technically? An online presentation of information that accepts comments. A web log.
2. What is the read/write web? Is it like wikipedia -where people can change comment describe? Where you put your blog?  It’s different from a website  – where you can’t add your own information.
   
3. What do these technologies mean for you and your students? Constant communication. Not answering the same question 500 times. Absent students can access info online. Preparing your students for the future. Students can answer questions on the blog – based on something you taught. Save paper.
   

This is a great place to start… and we’re off!