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Yes!!! Your CTE Classroom Blog
will Work
Our Class. Our Blog. Our Way.
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“Blogging is using a new medium for what it is good for – for connecting and interacting.”
George Siemens
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Define “blog”
Discover what a classroom blog should be
Identify the benefits
Discuss safety
Format
WHY a CTE blog will work
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Blog Defined:
• “Weblog” Coined by Jon Barger in 1997; shortened to“blog” by Peter Merholz in 1999.
• Now used as both a noun and a verb
• Basically, writing down what you think
• Engaging participants with content: inspires reflection, critical thinking, questioning, exploring, and
reacting
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Your CTE blog should NOT be:
• Merely a discussion board, listserv, or calendar
• Run by your students
• Forgotten when the semester gets busy
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Benefits of a CTE Classroom Blog
• Communicate in a way your students “get”
• Motivate students – even those who normally may not participate
• Endless read-write opportunities
• Endless collaboration and discussion opportunities
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Benefits continued
• It provides “anytime” work
• Paperless
• Share with parents, relatives, other CTE programs
• Showcase student work
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Specific Benefits for CTE Teachers
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Class requirements
Post your handouts, notices, homework assignments
Q&A board
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Specific Benefits for CTE Teachers
COLLABORATION as INSTRUCTION
- Further develop writing skills with an instant audience
- Mentoring between classes- Cooperative learning activities that
post research, ideas and suggestions
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Specific Benefits for CTE Teachers
DISCUSSIONS
Beyond the classroom
Equal opportunity sharing
Encourage reflective thinking
Gauge student learning
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Specific Benefits for CTE Teachers
STUDENT PORTFOLIOS
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CLASSROOM BLOG SAFETY
PUBLIC
POLICIES
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School site is preferred.
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Why is a classroom blog right for CTE?
1.Reading-Writing Skills
22. Portfolio
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Why is a classroom blog right for CTE?
3.Collaboration
24. Knowledge
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Why is a classroom blog right for CTE?
5.Promotion
6. Inspiration
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Why is a classroom blog right for CTE?
7. Start the Revolution
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RESOURCES
Ronkowitz, Ken. “Blogging as Pedagogic Practice Across the Curricululm”. PowerPoint Presentation for Faculty Technology Showcase ,
Bloomfield College. Spring 2009.
Stephens Downes. “Educational Blogging”. EDUCAUSE Review vol. 39, no. 5 (2004): 14-26.
Charles Nelson. “How to Use Blogs in the Classroom”. Secondlanguagewriting.com. June 19, 2006. Accessed December 23, 2009. “Blog Basics”. Teachingtoday.glencoe.com. Accessed December 23, 2009.
