Summer Session - Chapter 3: Get Started

Chapter 3: Get Started!
As stated in the first posting: "Are We Ready to Embrace Web 2.0?" and reiterated in this chapter, we should experience blogging first hand by both creating and posting to our own blog.

(To become a bonefide – “Blogger” before diving head first into a classroom blog.

Assignment for Chapter 3 - Please Complete by 28June09

• Read Chapter 3: pgs 43-54
• Create a PERSONAL interest blog (not a blog to use in your classroom or with students) using Blogger. Please refer to pages 48-53. If needed, please view the following YouTube video (Blocked at school) http://www.youtube.com/BloggerHelp
• Once you created your blog, please comment to this post and provide your URL so we may view/comment to your blog. (Once everyone has created their blog, I will post them to the right for easier access.)
• Throughout the summer, please post to your blog at least once a week beginning this week.
• View and respond to at least 3 book study participant's blog post once a week.
• Create an Avatar or insert a graphic/picture of you in the Profile section of your blog.
• Sign Up/Follow all blogs that are listed on the Summer Book Study Bloggers section on the book study blog.

• Add the RSS Gadget (Subscription Links Gadget) to your blog. Please view the how to video here.
• Check back from time to time to read some of the other participant's comments to the chapter post. You may find some interesting reads.

Optional:

• Visit the links under the heading of Favorite Web Tools.
• Visit the below links that may be found in Chapter 3:
• Chapter 3 - 21 Century Learning
• Chapter 3 - Blogger - Create your Own Blog
• Chapter 3 - Bud the Teacher Blogging Policies
• Chapter 3 - David Warlick
• Chapter 3 - Judy O'Connell
• Chapter 3 - Practical Theory
• Chapter 3 - Stephen Downes
• This website, Blogs and Blogging: A Home Run for Teaching, Learning, and Technology is FANTASTIC! You do not want to miss this one!