Class Blog: A Powerful Tool for Engagement, Collaboration and Sharing
Elizabeth Ebersole
This session will explore the use of a Class Blog (or Class Blog network) where both teachers and students are bloggers. Participants will leave the session feeling comfortable about exploring the class blog as an educational tool, be introduced to a number of examples of class blogs, become familiar with blog-facilitated tools, and have time to investigate two popular class blog platforms. In the classroom, class blogs allow for seamless connection and use of web tools. Class blogs promote student engagement and investment (with students as creators) and create the atmosphere of an "authentic audience." Teachers are able to share links to web tools, which facilitates flipped and blended learning environments. Teachers are also able to share tools that require student response and enable immediate teacher evaluation.
Liz Ebersole has been a teacher for 10 years. She is originally from Philadelphia, PA, where she earned a Master's Degree in Education from Temple University. Liz Ebersole is both a Middle School Language Arts and Social Studies teacher and the Educational Technology Coordinator at Seattle Hebrew Academy in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Liz formally studied the use of Educational Technology during her graduate studies and has been incorporating technology into her classrooms for her entire teaching career. "I self-identify as a tech-savvy Middle School teacher who is interested in using the principles of project-based learning and connected learning to create a rich learning environment for my students."
Prerequisite:
Bring your own device.
To learn more about these tools in advance of the session, please utilize the links below.
Elizabeth Ebersole
This session will explore the use of a Class Blog (or Class Blog network) where both teachers and students are bloggers. Participants will leave the session feeling comfortable about exploring the class blog as an educational tool, be introduced to a number of examples of class blogs, become familiar with blog-facilitated tools, and have time to investigate two popular class blog platforms. In the classroom, class blogs allow for seamless connection and use of web tools. Class blogs promote student engagement and investment (with students as creators) and create the atmosphere of an "authentic audience." Teachers are able to share links to web tools, which facilitates flipped and blended learning environments. Teachers are also able to share tools that require student response and enable immediate teacher evaluation.
Liz Ebersole has been a teacher for 10 years. She is originally from Philadelphia, PA, where she earned a Master's Degree in Education from Temple University. Liz Ebersole is both a Middle School Language Arts and Social Studies teacher and the Educational Technology Coordinator at Seattle Hebrew Academy in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Liz formally studied the use of Educational Technology during her graduate studies and has been incorporating technology into her classrooms for her entire teaching career. "I self-identify as a tech-savvy Middle School teacher who is interested in using the principles of project-based learning and connected learning to create a rich learning environment for my students."
Prerequisite:
Bring your own device.
To learn more about these tools in advance of the session, please utilize the links below.