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3 comments February 28th, 2008
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Writing a post
Hello again!
Larry and I exchanged some emails today because I was having difficulties writing a new post here, even though Larry had already granted me an editing status. Eventually we dicovered what was happening: if we, editors added to the blog, log in through edublogs home page, we cannot see any of these blogs (sister classes or student showcase) in our dashboards. So we have two options:
1- Visit http://esleflsisterclasses.edublogs.org and log in from there. On the menu on the right, the last box is “meta”, and the first option there is “log in”. Once login is completed, you’ll be directed to this blog’s dashboard.
or
2- Log in at edublogs.org, and then come to this sister classes blog. In the “meta” section of the menu on the right, you’ll see “site admin” and “log out”. If you click on “site admin”, you’ll go to the sister classes’ dashboard.
I believe the same works for the student showcase blog.
I hope this helps!
Kind regards from Brazil,
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Hello guys!
I have already started working on our introduction to Brazil with my students in Voicethread. It will probably be ready by Monday (March 3) because students only need to record their scripts now.
The thing is, when I finished uploading the images to our thread, and started to work on the settings, I came to the tagging part, and then I thought that we could standardize some tag(s) to everything produced in this project, in order to make it easy to be found and linked to. What do you think?
I have tagged my voicethread “sisterclasses” and “studentshowcase”, but I’m not sure if those are the best options.
I look forward to your opinion on this matter.
Kind regards from Brazil,
Ronaldo
2 comments February 28th, 2008
Everybody’s An Editor Now
Ronaldo, Annamaria, Tibor, Dot, Rita and I are all now registered as editors both here and at the Student Showcase blog. So everyone can write their own posts here, and post student work there. I don’t believe Gladys, Mona or Isabel sent me their Edublogs registration information, so I can’t add them yet.
We had discussed trying to embed each student slideshow as a separate post in the Student Showcase, so that it would be easy for students to comment back-and-forth. I posted a link to a video in an earlier post about how to embed a VoiceThread into Edublogs. If classes decided to use a different web tool, they could either embed it in the blog as a separate post, or post the link as an individual post along with a description.
I’d also suggest that the title of each post clearly identify which class (or country) it’s from. I wonder if the topic of the presentation might also be included in the title. I’d also suggest that the beginning of each post be “standard.” For example, maybe each post could start like this after the title:
TEACHER:
COUNTRY:
TITLE OF PRESENTATION:
STUDENT NAMES:
I’d certainly be open to something else, I just think it would be better to have everyone start the same way for identification purposes.
I’ve also added a link on the sidebar on this blog to the “Student Showcase,” as well as a link to the video showing how to embed a VoiceThread into an Edublog.
By the way, the “Theme” I chose for this blog apparently doesn’t allow the name of the writer to appear on the post. So if you write a post here, please put your name on it so we’ll all know who has written it.
Larry
11 comments February 26th, 2008
Edublogs Forums
Edublogs just created a great new tool — the ability for each blog to have forums. You can see a short screencast about it here.
Of course, let’s first get our introductory projects up on the Student Showcase blog and see how that goes. I’m recovering from the flu now, and for sure will have everybody listed on the Showcase blog as an editor by this weekend. This Friday or next Monday my students will begin working on their VoiceThreads for sharing.
If all these first projects go well, we might want to consider setting up a forum or two on the Student Showcase blog as a next step.
Larry
2 comments February 25th, 2008
Some Links for the Project
These are some of the links that are mentioned in the websites relating to the EFL/ESL Sister Classes’ websites. Dot MacKenzie February 2008
Audio Blogging
http://odiogo.com/
Convert your blog into an audio blog
http://voicethread.com/about/
Record student introductions
http://www.daftdoggy.com/recorder/english.php
Daft Doggy Voice Recording
Blogging
www.blogger.com
Easy to use
Children
www.jawischools.blogspot.com
www.allwritejawi.blogspot.com
Create Conversations
http://www.chinswing.com/
Education Blogs
http://edublogs.org/
Blog in 34 languages
http://edublogs.org/10-ways-to-use-your-edublog-to-teach/
10 ways to use a blog when teaching
http://magazine.edublogs.org/
Tips and treats
http://edublogs.org/campus/
Blog your campus
E-learning, M-learning, Web 2.0, 7 mobile technologies
http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/
Game Makers
http://www.mltav.asn.au/content/view/149/
http://next.yahoo.net/photosoup/index.php
Gif Animator and Avator Generator
http://www.gifup.com/
Maps
http://www2.clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://clustrmaps.com
Insert a map in your blog
http://www.mapsofwar.com/library.html
Maps of war
Movies
http://www.dvolver.com/
Make a short movie introducing yourself
On-line Resources for E-learning
http://webusabilityhelp.blogspot.com/2007/11/to-z-online-resources-for-e-learning.html
Personalize the Web
http://www.pageflakes.com/Login.aspx
Photos
http://www.mixbook.com/
Create Photobooks
http://www.onetruemedia.com/
Podcasts
http://www.showbeyond.com/show/home
PowerPoints
http://www.authorstream.com/
Share PowerPoints
http://www.authorstream.com/
Sharing Resources
http://www.qlipmedia.com/
Sister Classes
http://esleflsisterclasses.edublogs.org
Blog for teachers and students in Kuwait, Argentina, Brazil, the USA and Hungary
Slidecasts and Podcasts
http://www.slideshare.net/anamariacult/1-b-jobs
Social Networking
http://crowdvine.com/home
http://www.ning.com/
http://www.onetruemedia.com/
https://www.bigtent.com/
http://mixxt.de/
http://www.webjam.com/webjam/home
Social Networks in Education
http://socialnetworksined.wikispaces.com/
http://education.ning.com/
Student Showcase Blog
http://esleflsisterclasses.edublogs.org/2008/02/15/student-showcase-blog-set-up/
ESL/EFL sister classes in Argentina, Brazil, Hungary, Kuwait and the USA
Teachers’ Blogs and Homepages
Dot MacKenzie, Kuwait
http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org/
www.jawischools.blogspot.com
www.allwritejawi.blogspot.com
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~dotmack/
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~elu_sci/
www.kuwaituniversity.blogspot.com
Ana Maria, Brazil
http://ourblogproject.blogspot.com/
Ronaldo, Brazil
http://ihopeitworks.blogspot.com/
Rita Zeinstejer, Argentina
http://ritaz.edublogs.org/
http://caeb2007.podomatic.com/
Larry Ferlazzo, USA
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org
http://larryferlazzo.com/english.html
Tibor Prievara, Hungary
http://www.netangol.hu/
Videos
http://www.onetruemedia.com/
Virtual Classroom
http://www.wiziq.com/
Virtual Library
http://kuwaituniversity.blogspot.com
Voice
http://voicethread.com/about/
Record student introductions
Windows Live Writer
http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/
Upload pictures, videos, and word documents into your blog
3 comments February 25th, 2008
Blog for Students Studying Social Sciences and Law
This blog is dedicated to students studying social sciences, political science and law. It includes links to some of the webpages we may use in our computer classes, which are also being used by the teachers involved in the sister classes’ project involving teachers from Kuwait, Argentina, the USA, Hungary, and Brazil. http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org/
Add comment February 25th, 2008
“Student Showcase” Blog Set-Up
I’ve set-up a blog where we can embed or link our students’ projects, and where they can leave comments. I’ve called it Student Showcase.
People didn’t quite respond directly to my question about if we wanted to share our projects this way. We certainly don’t have to, but if we do I’m happy to sign you all up to be able to approve posts and comments there.
11 comments February 15th, 2008
