Exploring Blogs
Please access the Cybersmart Site link first and use the information and recommendations to guide your thinking. Consider how best to prepare and engage your learners. For navigation purposes the examples below have been organised and shared using individual Google Slide decks. Typically on a learning site, slides would be curated in a single deck. Each week new learning is located on the first slide so current learning displays when the published slide deck is clicked. A feature of Slides is the ability to generate a URL that publishes the slide deck to the web and displays in full screen on the iPad rather than embedding the slide deck. How to set up a Slide Deck
Learners are able to:
confidently navigate to and around the parts of a blog
are increasingly using cybersmart vocabulary and can confidently name parts of the blog
recognise information that helps them connect with who the blogger is i.e. school, name, class
connect with the purpose of blogging i.e. connected learners share
Explain Everything :
Opportunity for learners to use the text tool.
Focus on editing text, changing font size, adding border.
Difference between text tool and hand tool when editing an exisiting text box.
Recognising a sound bite and how it can help them.
Taking a screenshot, inserting and cropping an image.
Practise switching between Tabs and Apps on their iPad
Exploring Blogs
Learners explore a selection of blogs you have identified:
Begin with blogs from your school. Share links to the blogs for learners to access on their iPads.
Include a variety of Learn Create Share examples.
What do they notice about the learning that is shared?
Make connections with their own learning? What is similar/different?
Introduce key navigation vocabulary for parts of the blog e.g. title, comments, labels. Use cybersmart vocabulary e.g. positive, thoughtful, helpful.
Empower learners to locate and navigate to school blogs via your learning site and the school site.
Identify opportunities for your learners to share/describe learning that has resonated for them from blogs they are reading e.g. via Apple TV.
Include further opportunities to explore blogs from other schools.
Co-construct and model how to leave a comment from the class in response to a post that resonates with your learners.
Use Name/URL and link comment to your class blog.
When comments are published have the learners locate the comment via their device.
Select some of the EE projects the learners have created to share on your class blog. Upload as a video to Google Drive and embed. Model commenting as a class.
Identify opportunities for learners to locate and respond to comments on both the class blog and blogs from other schools.