Blogs and stuff

Welcome to our first ICT segment for 2011. Time to update your blog and so here are some places you might like to go and some reminders of what can help you with your blog.

Thanks Jac - I appreciate the links. I would like to know how to add voice clips to childrens work as per the website -  year 1 children2008sunnybrae

Animoto - video and photo slideshows

For making slideshows of your photos

Photo peach

Slide

Photobucket

Smilebox

For uploading powerpoints/keynote presentations

slideshare

For help and assistance on how to do lots of things on your blog....

http://bling4yrblog.blogspot.com/

Lastly, some inspiration and ideas from the following super blogs (aside from the ones from our own super staff).

http://2008sunnybrae5.blogspot.com/ year 1's.... check out her inclusion of mimio learning, videos of writing

http://mrsmacscyberkids.blogspot.com/ year 3 and 4's in auckland, not much recent stuff but have a look at the application glogster.. cool

Balmacewan Intermediate home page, check out especially room 1 and 7 and the way they get children commenting, and what they are doing with home work.

Kaipara Flats - check out how teacher is including not just photos in blogposts

A couple more ----- wikispaces.... anything you can do on a wiki you can do in a blog and vice versa.

www.room1goldfields.wikispaces.com

Point view room 31

Wakaranga Primary School - heaps of cool links and games that meet standards that you can steal!!

So post a comment on what you like from these blogs, what you want to learn how to do in your blog from what you have seen or thought about and that will become our focus on building teacher capability..... can be blogs, mimio, software, using apple applications... anything...

TREATS and REWARDS for first comment..... (:

MORE TREATS and REWARDS for trying something new in your blog... (: (: and posting a blog post about it...