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September 14, 2008 Blogging, Professional Development 5 Comments

This upcoming week, we will have a Professional Development workshop for our faculty. The topic will be blogs. We will introduce the new features of the upgraded WordPress 2.6 version, remind teachers how to sign in and comment on our SJEDS Travels to Latin America blog and mainly how to move from using their classroom blogs as a static website and moving towards creating a learning community for their students in that online space.

What can you do to embark on the path of creating an online learning community for your students on your blog?

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  1. elaine talbert says:
    14. September, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    I like the smooth progression you are framing here for staff. The charts that outline the concepts and your thinking are very useful. Elaine

  2. Magistra M's Reflections : Monologue or Dialogue? says:
    18. September, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    [...] blogging and posting our homework on the internet each night?  In a recent post, Langwitches shared a flowchart demonstrating the transition from static website to blog, moving [...]

  3. Langwitches » Changes in Classroom Blogs of our Elementary School says:
    25. October, 2008 at 9:25 am

    [...] Each classroom and resource teacher at our school has a blog, that they are “required” to keep up to date for communication purposes to parents. Updated, meaning to at least create a post once a week. I have written about my effort to encourage teachers to Creating a learning community with your Elementary School Blog by pointing out the differences between a Blog vs. Static Website. [...]

  4. Langwitches » Blogging with Elementary School Students says:
    23. December, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    [...] of our teachers at my elementary school maintain their own classroom blog.  As I wrote about in Blogs vs. Static Website and Changes in Classroom Blogs, we need to move forward from merely a one sided communication tool [...]

  5. Do you Have a Blog in Your Static Website? | TechZoomIn says:
    6. September, 2009 at 8:37 am

    [...] photo credit [...]

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