You’ve started your blog(s) with students, and they are writing, when is their work “ready” to publish and share with the world? If you haven’t thought about it yet, you should. Watch as we discuss how to figure out your philosophy about publishing student work, and how to make sure that you are having students show their best work, while still supporting learning.

Points covered included:

• Considerations, including potential “critics” who may read the blog;
• Building comfort and fluency in students;
• Avoiding embarrassing students;
• Revising and editing comments after they are published;
• Identify draft vs. final versions of work.

Sue Wyatt (taz teacher) and Jan Smith shared their experiences with student blogs which were very illuminating!

You can see the archive of the Elluminate session here

Links

• My week ver. 17 | Reflections on Teaching
• The Quality of Language
• La qualité de la langue
• Sue Wyatt’s blog
• Jan Smith’s blog
• The Edublogger Student competition
  

Other

A note about the writing on this blog…

This blog includes writing from elementary students, and shows work at all stages from first to final drafts
Work with this logo:

has been edited once.

Work with this logo:

is in a final form.

We do this to show the whole writing process, and hope you enjoy seeing how we learn.

the image link is here:
Edited: http://oakridgefourthgrade.edublogs.org/files/2009/05/cooltext421028791.png
Final: http://oakridgefourthgrade.edublogs.org/files/2009/05/cooltext421029122.png

I did both on cooltext: http://cooltext.com/Buttons

Audio will be available at Blog Talk Radio

7 Things You Should Know About Blogs

2 page handout on blogs

movingforward » home

A hub resource for sharing links and resources for various stakeholders about ed tech

oakridgeedtech » Start of Year Intermediate

Example of a student response on a blog

1 Twister 1998 — Blogmeister

Assignment #18: What Works in Oak Park | Sixth Grade Blog

Landmarks Class Blogmeister

Warlick’s CoLearners | Main / ClassBlogmeisterWiki browse

Sign In to Class Blogmeister – Class Blogmeister

Yahoo Groups: Class Blogmeister Support Community

Edublogs – teacher and student blogs

The Edublogger

The Edublogs Forums

Blogger: Dashboard

EdTech Update: Remove the "next blog" button from Blogger

Weebly – Create a free website and a free blog

21Classes – Free Classroom and Education Blogs – Home

SchoolBlog – About ePals – ePals Global Community

Using Technology to add engagement and inquiry to SES tutoring

Here are links from the presentation…

• Third Grade ELA Test Release Questions (pdf)

• Third Grade ELA Content Standards (pdf)

• Suffix Practice
  

• New York State Elementary Test Prep- ELA 4- Grade 3 Suffixes

• mizmercer » Linear Graphing Project

• Points on a Grid

• ASSET – TrueNorthLogic – Empower | Engage | Enlighten

• FunBrain.com’s What’s the Point? Coordinate Graphing

• Interactivate: Simple Maze Game

• MathSlice – Coordinate graphing

• FunBrain.com’s What’s the Point? Coordinate Graphing

• Welcome to Flickr!

• Flickr: Search

• oakridgeedtech » Perseverance

Some thoughts, and some links:

Slideshare is a great site for posting Power Points. There is even a way to add narration. I would strongly recommend Dean Shareski’s PowerPoint extreme makeover video shown below as a must see.

Next, when you have students doing these projects, it’s very helpful to have them “story board” to plan their work. There is a curriculum on Film Making in Discovery Streaming from AFI (American Film Institute). You don’t have to read the rest of it (unless you’re thinking about doing film making), but the planning story boards on page 19.

Preview post for session with links

Get a USB mic for recording.

Larry Ferlazzo’s Website of the Day is an invaluable resource for online activities to do with ELLs

I also contribute to a resource blog called Instructify out of UNC-Chapel Hill that gives lots of great resources.

On copyright and fair use, here is some further reading that could be helpful:

K. Hokanson on Copyright Confusion

Instructify articles on copyright and fair use

If I promised to post something, or you still have questions, leave a comment and I will get it.

Pre-presentation post is here.

• Theoretical underpinnings of English Language Development
• English Language Development Standards
• Instructional methods and the tools to make it happen
  • Visual and Vocabulary Support
  • Multi-media projects to support writing and oral language development
• Projects that show how it’s done

My slides:

and my links:

• California English Language Development Standards

  Oral langauge development is a explicitly stated standard for all English Language Learners. Oral language is also part of the state’s Language Arts standards for ALL students. Frankly, asking for oral repsonse to your lectures will NOT suffice. That is n

• VoiceThread – Third Graders on Friendship

• Flickr: Advanced Search

• flickrCC

  Free photos for non-comercial use (and sometime for commercial use)

• Lexipedia – Where words have meaning

• Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus

  This is a fantastic thesaurus site, showing the visual relationship between words.\n\n

• Introduction to Perseverance | Sixth Grade Blog

• Motivator: Create your own customized motivational poster

• Ms. Mercer’s Class Website » ELD

• Earth’s Structure

• BubbleShare – Earth – By A. Mercer

  Here is a multimedia project created with students in my fifth grade ELD class last year. Students created pictures to talk about a natural space they enjoyed, then added audio narration to their pictures.\n\n

• Audacity: Download

• Lame MP3 Encoder Binaries

• Ms. Mercer’s Class Website » Podcasts

  These are examples of podcasts that I did last year with my fifth grade class\n\n

• Arnie Abrams Handout for Digital Storytelling workshop

  Note the example of a copyright disclaimer on page 6 which suggests how to handle posting materials that have some copyrighted content. copyright disclaimer: “Many of the digital stories on our site include images and audio found on the Internet using commonly available search engines. The stories have been created for non-profit, educational use by students and teachers and we hope are within the fair use protection of existing copyright laws. If any copyright owner objects to the use of any work appearing on this site, please contact us and we will remove the work and review the propriety of including it.”

• It’s Elementary Show #10 – Copyright: It’s the Law | It’s Elementary

• Flickr: nicholaselementary’s Photostream

• Online Stopwatch

As promised, here are some links on Diigo. These links include YouTubes and sceencasts showing an AP History teacher who is using Diigo for notetaking homework in his class:

Next here are note taken by Laura MacDonald (thank you Laura)

and here is the video. The quality of the shots are not great, and due to technical problems, it was cut-off a couple times (hence the four different videos. I think I will be working on the video technique going forward, but I thank you for being part of this learning process for me.

http://www.ustream.tv/search/all/ETLN

Finally, once again, here are is the slideshow that was the bones of the presentation. I will be posting the final presentations from my students here in the next few weeks so you can see how this all turned out for me.

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I look forward to seeing you all in May!

If you can’t make it in person, you can watch it on the web starting at about 4:20 p.m. (PDT)  at: http://edtechtalk.com/live

A preview of sites I’ll look at:

and can be found on Diigo. I hope to see you there!