NCSS Practice Blog

Practice Blog for NCSS

Check out our PBIS Initiatives!

Test for Tina and Brenda. Math is wonderful.  We should add some Math pictures, links, and videos.

http://theoriesandideas.com/3rd-key-fibonacci/

Sample Google Form

Part Three: Give It a Try

To access this WISN Session Blog:

• Go to Blogger.com
• iOS app for iPhones and iPads
• Android app on Google Play 
• Log in with
• username: WISNBlogs@gmail.com
• password: available at session

Try some ideas from today:

• Create a post with text. You could include:
• Something about yourself
• Include a link to your school or personal website
• Share ideas you find useful
• Share additional ideas for using blogs with students
• Share links to favorite websites
• Anything, really - practice the process, not the content
• Try inserting an image
• A saved image
• An image from the web
• Take a photo
• Try embedding a video - maybe something funny or educational or inspirational
• Play - Preview - Publish

Part Two: How Do Teachers Do All That with Blogs?

Adding text and links

• In the post editor. Basic word processing tools.
• Adding a link
• Highlight the desired text
• Click Link
• Add the desired address

Adding images and captions

• Add an image
• Click the Image icon
• Select the location of image
• Select the image
• After seeing the preview, click upload
• Once an image is added, click on it.
• Change left/center/right justified
• Change size to small/medium/large
• Add a caption

Embedding - Stuff to Embed

• YouTube.com: Click Share, then Embed
• Prezi.com: Click Embed button below the prezi
• edu.Glogster.com: Click Embed into your page, located in the box below the glog
• Google Street View:
• Go to Google Maps
• Enter the address
• Drag the little orange dude onto the correct street
• Move to the correct view
• Click the gear icon in the lower, right corner
• Select Share or embed image
• Select Embed
• Google Forms in Google Drive:
• Go to completed form
• Select Form in the menu bar
• Select Embed form in a webpage...
• Various online tools, charts, graphs, etc.: Look for a share or embed button

Embedding - How to embed

• After locating the embed code, copy the code
• Go to your Blogger post

     Now this is a little tricky...

• Click on the HTML button above the post editor
• Locate the place in the post to embed the content (I like to put a bunch of extra blank lines in the post to make it easier to find. They can be deleted later.) 
• Paste the code you copied
• Return to Compose
• Reformat as needed

More Examples

• Enabling comments on your blog
• Go to Blogger.com and select your blog
• On the left, select Settings
• Select Posts and comments
• Several settings can be changed. Especially important are:
• Who can comment?
• Comment moderation
• Classroom newsletter: 1.) Hard Copy  2.) Email Notifications  3.) Website/Blog
• Here's how I did it.
• Anytime I thought of something that parents needed to know, I posted it to the blog.
• On Fridays, I copied all the posts since the last Friday and pasted them into a new document.
• I formatted a few things, printed, and sent it home.
• Classroom newsletter: Email notifications of blog posts
• Go to Blogger.com and select your blog
• On the left, select Settings
• Select Mobile and email
• Up to 10 email addresses can be added to have new posts automatically emailed to them. If you have more addresses, a Google Group can be created. The Group's email address can then be added. New posts go to the Google Group and then to group members.

Part One: What Can Teachers Do With Blogs?

Adding text and links

• Introduce a lesson: Before We Start Working Online...
• Directions: Book Club To-Do List
• Lesson resources: Fourth Grade - Wisconsin State Symbols
• Curated resources: Wisconsin's Earliest People
• Go-To Links: Mrs. Sturdy's 4/5 Classroom
• Show examples/samples: Book Reviews

Adding images and captions

• Directions with images: Fourth Grade Glog Practice Pictures
• Directions with images: Continent Pictures
• Images with description (not captions): Mississippi River Flood of 1993

Embedding

• Videos
• When You Reach Me
• Casey at the Bat
• Keeper
• Projects and student work
• Fourth Grade Wonders
• Stories Through the Centuries (with link to final project)
• A Tour of the School - Glog
• Another Virtual Tour - Glog
• Ways to Add Info to a Website - Photos
• Google street view
• The Curious Garden
• Wonder
• Tools
• United States Population Chart from the U.S. Census Bureau

More Examples

• Comments and discussion on individual posts: Discussion on Wonder - Pages 1-26
• Collecting information / embedding Google Forms: Your Final Thoughts . . .
• Classroom newsletter / updates: Immanuel Fourth Graders
• Fill in gaps in student background knowledge
• Wonder
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
• Turtle in Paradise