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"These videos give you an up to date outline of using the program Blogger. They start off with how to create your first blog all the way through to adding more pages and authors to your blogs" R.Stannard takes you through the updated Blogger program. I have used Blogger for years, but now tend to just use Diggo and Scoop.It, the latter for the more reflective, pedagogically oriented discussions. Blogs are very helpful as a place for student portfolios, and are easy to tag and search.

"A Complete Guide to Using Blogger In School covers everything from blogging terminology to blogging activities to the nuts and bolts of using Blogger. You'll learn where to find media to use in blog posts, how to use media in blog posts, and get ideas for media-based blog posts. You'll also learn how to set-up your blog for multiple authors and how to manage comments." T/H R. Byrne

What advice would you give to another TEFL teacher interested in becoming a blogger? 27 bloggers responded: writing over 40 articles, 2 sent emails and 31 bloggers answered a poll on various issues.

Now owned by Google, and with an improved interface, Blogger is easier to use than ever. Create a blog to keep students alerted, document your own personal development, etc. Have students create blogs to share projects, perform brainstorming, etc. Better than paper journals for vocabulary development, etc.

USING BLOGGER TO GET STARTED WITH E-LEARNING In "Using Blogger to Get Teachers Started with E-Learning" (FORTNIGHTLY MAILING, May 25, 2006), Keith Burnett discusses how "[s]imple class blogs can be used to post summaries of key points, exercises, links, etc., by email.

R. Byrne: "A featured resource on MoMA Learning is this video containing five tips for teaching with works of art. The video not only lists the tips, it contains examples of using these tips to teach art history and art appreciation lessons to students." Most of the great art museums and natural history museums of the world have websites with instructional materials of very high quality. It's worth some time to explore what they offer and figure out how to adapt their resources for your classes. One of the other excellent resources on MoMA Learning is this glossary of art terms. In many cases the definitions in the glossary contain links to multiple examples of each term. You might also like: Three Good Places to Find Art Lessons Art Babble - Videos and Lessons In Art History Read and Download 250+ Art Books from the Getty Museum 390 Free Online Art History Books Linkwithin 33 at 7:05 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Art, Art History, art lessons, Free Technology For Teachers, MoMA, MoMA Learning Links to this post Create a Link Newer Post Older Post Home LinkWithin Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger... TW FreeTech Banner Dark Blue (1) freetech4teachers HelloTalk new seesaw-468-60 Midwest Teachers Institute Banner 468x60 isd-richard-byrnes-ad-2014 ettipad-boston15-CFP-200x200 prepfactory DE_WILKES_EDGE_AD_200x200.jpg Browse The Archives ► 2015 (707) ▼ 2014 (1243) ► December (115) ► November (86) ► October (112) ► September (116) ► August (102) ▼ July (114) ► Jul 31 (5) ► Jul 30 (4) ► Jul 29 (2) ► Jul 28 (4) ► Jul 27 (3) ► Jul 26 (2) ► Jul 25 (5) ► Jul 24 (5) ► Jul 23 (4) ► Jul 22 (5) ► Jul 21 (5) ► Jul 20 (2) ► Jul 19 (2)

R. Stannard's training video for how to start your own blog at Blogger.com

Latest version of Blogger services described by Russell Stannard. Great quickstart for you or your students.

More detailed advice on settings and use of the post-Google Blogger interface. Tompics include stats, ads, handling and arranging widgets, setting privacy for comments, customizing the basic templates, etc. By Russell Stannard.

"Create free timelines. Follow interesting stories, get updates and notifications with "Today in history". myHistro is an interactive diary and a story-flow generator for bloggers." This seems an addition to ways to use timelines/mind-mappers/blogs that would be worth exploring.

This is a collection of 10 examples of ways schools have used GoAnimate for creative projects. Each item is from a blogger (or the GoAnimate site itself), with links to full articles.

A blog post describing how to use Blogsy to post via iPad. With mobile learning on the rise, this seems a good app for anyone to have, although it costs $4.99 currently. You can blog to any of the major services, such as Blogger or Wordpress, and also photo and video share to Picasa, Flickr, YouTube, and Vimeo. Now your mobile students have no excuse not to post to their blogs.

One of many articles from this prolific educational blog. You are invited to add your own favorite YouTube Channel to the collection here. Shake Up Learning also has occasional articles on pedagogy. The list of 20 includes professional development (ISTE) and various Google help sites, richard Byrne and other bloggers, and the Office Ed Tech at the U.S. Dept of Education.

"OnSugar is a hosted publishing platform that is based on what we use to publish PopSugar, FabSugar, and the rest of Sugar. Key Platform Features: * 11 different post types: (text, gallery, layout, poll, look, quiz, quote, link, chat, video, & audio) * Free access to a hundreds of thousands of Getty Images® * Fun drag and drop layout tool. Create your look with thousands of fashion images from hundreds of online retailers through ShopStyle, e.g. ShopBop, J. Crew, Net-a-Porter, and others. * ShopSense: Make money by linking to products and retailers NEW * Build your audience of followers with automatic notifcation of new posts * Follow your favorite sites and view an aggregated feed of your followed sites * Post by email NEW * Automatic update of your Facebook and Twitter status NEW * Multiple sites per account * Multiple authors per site * Easy import from Blogger, Wordpress, & Typepad * Full domain support * Free Key Site Features: * Drafts/Timed Publishing * Search * Archives * Pages (e.g. About Me, Galleries, Videos, etc) * Widgets for highlighting content from your site or around the web (e.g. Popular Posts, Latest Comments, Latest Tweets, etc) * Completely customizable themes" Looks like an up-to-date blog tool that allows for lots of different social networking interfaces, and has drag-and-drop tools for layout and adding media. Somewhat commercial, but might appeal esp. to teens.

"Now if you visit my PD site you will find a series of activities that you can use to introduce teachers and students to various Google tools including Google Sites, Blogger, Advanced Search, Google Maps, Books, Bookmarks, Google Docs, and Google Groups. Feel free to use and adapt the activities I've outlined the next time you're introducing teachers or students to these helpful Google tools." The site referred to has an amazing number of lesson ideas and links to tutorials on using Google applications for education.

Start a discussion by phone or computer, and automatically have it updated to Flickr, Twitter, Blogger, etc.