Huron Heights Staff Meeting
May 1, 2006 by Brent
This post and the Literacy Breakfast post are the outlines of the presentations made to Huron Heights staff in late April and early May 2006. There are numerous links to the various teacher blogs and instructions on how to begin using blogs in the classroom, your community agency or for any individual wishing to use this easy technology for augmenting their own learning.
In creating these mini presentations, I utilized the many talents and creativity of edu bloggers around the world. Please let me know if I can offer any suggestions on getting started and I will try to point you in the right direction.
Community Resource & Learning Room
Presentation Outline:
Introduction: Background: A bit of me and how I arrived at Huron Heights, our supporters, why we do what we do etc.
Handouts:
CRLR overview
Ways to use blogs in education
Using Edublogs.org and related tools (podcasting, bloglines etc)
Community Resource & Learning Room:Highlight of the CRLR Blog – explain blog and why we use it by showing “RSS” conversation” features. i.e. blogroll & subscriptions
- We use blogs to profile & demonstrate youth skills,
- We use blogs to build capacity of our projects and the skills of our members
- We use blogs to Increase our program’s impact on our community
- We use blogs to connect, converse and collaborate with young people from around the world (cluster maps)
How the CRLR uses social software (blogs, wikis, podcasting, vodcasting)
Community Based Research – Youth Youth Community Mapping Program – Utilizing youth assets to contribute to a major social concern and linking youth from all over the Region to address youth poverty & homelessenss
Youth Broadcast Centre - DigitalStorytelling techniques feature youth podcasts and multi-media publishing on poetry, art, music, dance, drama, atheletics, work, learning, youth culture, global & local issues,
Educator Resources – TeacherTech and Literacy and Internet Safety
Resources:Read/Write Web Video by Will Richardson
Student Blogging – Stephen Downes (Senior Researcher with the E-Learning Research Group, National Research Council Canada, Moncton, New BrunswickClassroom Blogs (from Will Richardson’s Wiki)
- Secret Life of Bees
- English Literature 12
- Room 613 Talk
- Excellence and Imagination
- Immigration Experience
- Pre Cal 40S
Edublogs.org Sample posting real time using my brentmack.edublogs.org – use a blog post related to Huron Staff Meeting
Video showing how to use edublogs
Handouts for edublogs, bloglines, podcasting and other related resources
Thanks:
Inviting staff to ask Dana, Mark or myself about how we are using blogs to enhance learning in our classroom and community programs.
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