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Welcome to the Blog Along Opportunity

To take part in this project, classes would need to use an existing blog, or set up a new class blog, in which students would have opportunities to write regularly and where they may also embed voicethreads, podcasts, video and other web 2.0 tools about things that are going on in their learning.

In this wiki I am starting to provide help notes about how to get started and links to all the blogs in the project. The idea will then be that during regular class writing times and throughout the day in other curriculum areas, students can add to their class blog.

In reading times most days we would like classes to commit to a group of students reading the blogs from others in the project and leaving feedback comments to support the learners in making improvements. This feedback would also include a link back to your own class blog, so that in the end the interaction becomes self sustaining. The wiki will outline how comments can be fashioned and I will include some of the voice footage on feedback I collected on my visit to Amy’s classroom in Okotoks, Calgary, Canada.

If you think you may be interested in participating with your class, please add your name to the Register Interest page by clicking on Edit, completing a row in the table and saving the page. Registering will ensure you get the information flows and in October we will ask you if you wish to commit to the project.

If you need to set up a new blog, information to support this development can be found here.

Jill Hammonds CORE Education Ltd New Zealand