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Key Stage 2 teachers

Education Development Centre

Yvonne Walker

Primary / Junior / Special

13/10/08

Non Agreement school - £181.50
Agreement school - Standard - £91.50
Agreement school - Premium - £73.50



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Dates and Times:
Monday 3 November 2008
9.00am - 3.30pm

To explore the potential of using blogs to support teaching and learning.
To evaluate free resources that schools can use to create their own blogs.
To enable course participants to create their own blogs.

A course designed to explore the potential of blogs for teaching and learning. The fact that pupils can upload their own text, images, videos and podcasts to the internet gives a whole new meaning to the idea of writing for an audience. A blog (short for web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and displayed in reverse chronological order. Blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.

See http://deepcarstjohns.learnerblogs.org/ for an example of how one school is doing this.

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