Embed+Blogging

I'm often asked how does my class find time to blog in a busy classroom! On this page I will share ideas of how we blend blogging into curriculum areas. Click on the curriculum links below to see examples. flat =Reading = How my class blends commenting into our reading programme. Whilst I am working with my guided reading group other students are independently reading. One of the reading activities is 'blog' reading and responding to what they have read. There are 3 different activities students can complete - they choose one to complete. I have these as posters / cards in the classroom for students to refer to.
 * When do you find time to blog? **

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=Science = Students filming a science experiment. In these movies students filmed as we were working and discussing the science concepts. We used an iPad and used iMovie. We uploaded to Vimeo and added to the blog.

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Uploading to Vimeo enables us to take it off the iPad (saving memory for other film projects) and gives films storage space (introducing the concept of cloud computing!)

Create posters about science experiments. Students create these in Comic Life or the Web 2.0 tool Glogster, then embed onto our class blog - and guess what, you are writing at the same time!
 * Science Posters **

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=Writing = We have 'draft writing' books where we 'craft' our words! We use a variety of e-tools to then publish our writing. We often use Voicethread and iMovie (on the iPad) to publish our writing. We then embed the e-tool into our class blog.

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Here is an example of our draft writing. We read for inspiration and analyse what makes great writing (we had read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for inspiration for these stories). We use learning intentions to support our own writing and co-construct success criteria (in the photo you can see our focus was writing descriptions using adjectives). We edit checking against the success criteria and proof read - the normal stuff of writing lessons! Blogging is the sharing of our learning! You could also blog or document about the process of writing!