On March 1, I will be presenting at the March MACE Conference on the topic of blogging. In fact, it will be a hands on training with the goal of getting more teachers to blog using the popular open source tool known as Wordpress.
Training Outline
The following movies are my presention that I made at MACE. Click on each one to learn more about Wordpress. (Movie1 , Movie2 , Movie3, Movie4 , Movie5 , Movie6 , Movie 7)
1. What is a blog?
2. What is Wordpress?
3. Examples of Blogs - The USA Recorder, Wired Blogs, MACE Blog, Extra Credit , Popular Blogs , Anderson Cooper
4. Search Blogs
5. Why do we need blogs in education?
6. Discuss basic features - posts, pages, links, comments, categories, RSS
7. Modify your own blog to learn more features of Wordpress
8. Log into MACE Blog to either post or comment on sessions
9. Create your own free personal blog at Blogger or Wordpress
Click on the appropriate link below (has been removed) to go to the blog you are instructed to modify. All of these blogs are hosted on a multi-user wordpress server at Holton High School. If your district does not have a server set up yet, you can get a free wordpress blog hosted by wordpress.com .
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