Otto Overachiever

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Welcome to My Blog

The purpose of this blog is to demonstrate the more advanced features of Edublogs that teachers could use as a replacement for Teacher Web. Blogs differ from Teacher Web by providing teachers and students with a dynamic interface for online communication. Posts can be added on a weekly basis to provide information about what the class is learning and as a space to showcase student created projects. Teachers have the ability to create student blogs using the My Class module located in the dashboard. The teacher’s blog serves as an umbrella for all sub-blogs, thus making the teacher an automatic administrator for security purposes. Teachers can choose to moderate all posts, pages, and comments. Widgets (located in the sidebars) offer additional functionality and provide quick access to student and parent resources.

Edublogs also allows the user to embed any HTML code that online tools generate. Examples of web tools and how they can be used to support instruction are located in the main navigation menu.

The amount of time needed for training for this particular blog format is approximately 5 one hour sessions. NEISD Bloggin’ Boot Camp is offered several times throughout the year.

Thinglink for Educators

Thinglink is a free, easy to use online tool that allows you to make any graphic or photo interactive. Create multiple hot spots on specific parts of your image that link to a website, video, music, text, or audio file. Thinglink education accounts lets teachers and students store an unlimited number of images. ThingLink works on all modern web browsers as well as iPad, iPhone and Android.

Follow the directions below to create a free educators account for you and your students.

Once accounts have been created and you have printed the initial log in credentials provided by Thinglink, you can go in and change the username and passwords of each student to match their Google Drive credentials. Older students should be able to do this step by themselves.

Below is a slideshow with examples of how Thinglink can be used to support classroom instruction. Click on the arrows to advance through the presentation. Additional resources can be found at the bottom of the page.

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