In your classrooms, you may be wondering what a blog could be used for. Well, a blog is a very useful collaborative Web2.0 tool that allows all of the participants to author blogs and post comment to existing blogs. There are many types of blogs on the internet that may be used by students and teachers. Blogger.com is affiliated with Google, therefore a Gmail account (email) is needed in order to post comments to this blog, or create your own blog.
Gmail (follow directions to set up an account)
Blogger (follow directions to set up a blog of your own)
The Bentley Students will create username and passwords for Gmail and Blogger (same for both) for the students that are participating in the Cluster Challenge Program. That information will be shared with the teachers for extra monitoring purposes. The Bentley students will create a filter for the Gmail accounts and place safeguards on classroom blogs.
Again, please post any questions that you may have about blogs! Also, feel free to answer another person's question, as this blog is a tool for all of us to collaborate with!
- Bentley CAP Team
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When the gmail accounts for students are created, usernames (no last names) and passwords will be maintained in a file to help students if they forget their username/password. This information can also be shared with parents/guardians when information goes home to inform about an exciting up-coming project!
ReplyDeleteRead more here: http://clusterchallengetechnology.wikispaces.com/Blogs
ReplyDeleteCan we review with teachers which Web 2.0 tools are best suited to which type of projects?
ReplyDeleteThe Bentley Service Learning students have been working on creating tutorials for a wide variety of Web2.0 tools. When these have been completed, there will be a Google site created (it is in the works already) that will contain all of these tutorials along with Questions and Answers about which tools are best suited which types of projects.
ReplyDeleteI keep visiting your Computer Assistance blog and it's really worth reading it.
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