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Workshop Resource for You

Here is a today's presentation - a Google Slides Presentation.
A particularly good feature of embedding Google content is that it remains responsive. That means as you update or make changes to the file it will be updated in your blog.

Be CYBERWISE and COPYRIGHT CLEAR

When introducing Blogging in the classroom, you have a great opportunity to teach your students about Copyright and online safety. Our Parramatta Diocesan strategy is entitled:

THREE THINGS TO REMEMBER  Be Safe, Be Respectful Be Responsible

CEDP has some great resources which will help you and your students to be Copyright Clear and Cyberwise including Posters for Primary and Secondary students which can be downloaded from the Parramatta Diocesan Learning Exchange.

Lisa Nash, has also provided the following resource to help you with understanding how to know more about Copyright and Attribution.

Welcome to our Blogging Workshop

Welcome to this simple Blog designed to introduce you to the benefits of blogging in the classroom and get you started on a "sandpit' blog of your own today, so you can also learn how to create a simple blog for you and your students .

So what is a BLOG? A BLOG is a kind of online journal or diary. It's a place where you can record your thoughts and ideas about anything and everything. A BLOG is a lot more than a diary because it is very SOCIAL.

Blogs offer you the opportunity to showcase student work to the world. Perhaps students  might publish a story or poem. Or maybe they could share photos or videos of classroom experiences.   When your students publish blog entries or POSTS they become digital  AUTHORS .

The AUDIENCE for the blog could be their classmates, parents or maybe other students in Australia or around the world.

Once BLOG POSTS are published, others will be able to read the posts and add comments. So the classroom  blog becomes a place where there can be conversations about their learning.  Kathleen Morris, a Victorian teacher, is an avid classroom blogger. Let's hear from her students share their perceptions of the Benefits of Blogging.


 I look forward to showing you how to blog and getting to know you better. I'm sure you will soon agree with me - Blogging is a lot of fun.