COURSE OVERVIEW
Objectives
3.0 Use a website to develop a blog plan to post course information, resources, and daily assignments
3.1 Create a Weebly Account
3.2 Create a standard web home page for each course
3.3 Create a blog plan page as a sub-page of each course
3.4 Embed photo, video, and link
3.5 Create a new blog plan post
3.6 Publish a blog post or save a blog post draft
3.7 Assess the value in blog-planning for increased teacher & student organization
3.1 Create a Weebly Account
3.2 Create a standard web home page for each course
3.3 Create a blog plan page as a sub-page of each course
3.4 Embed photo, video, and link
3.5 Create a new blog plan post
3.6 Publish a blog post or save a blog post draft
3.7 Assess the value in blog-planning for increased teacher & student organization
Syllabus
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Description
What is blog planning? Simply put, it's a place for you to map out your activities for the day. Many of us have used whiteboards, Power Points, or MS Word to do this, but blogs are web-based posts so they are always accessible to you, your students, and parents. In this course you'll learn how to create a webpage and blog post page for each course or subject you teach.
Why it Matters
We all know the feeling, the night before the first day of school, we run over the plan for the day again and again. We've got general lesson plans written, but now we're thinking about the finer details. What step-by-step procedures need to be taught? What instructions need to be spelled out for students to be successful? Blog planning helps us answer these questions for ourselves and our students. It's day-by-day planning based on what was accomplished and what needs to happen tomorrow. Blog planning can reclaim lost instructional time and is an effective way to get yourself and your students organized. Read the scenarios below to see how blog planning helps resolve some common classroom distractions.
- Student says, "What are we supposed to be doing?" Your response, "Re-read the blog plan."
- Late student? No problem. They can catch up by reading directions on the blog plan.
- Absent student? Hop online and read the days plan from home.
- Students didn't finish an assignment in time? No problem. Everything is archived on your website.
- Students need to make-up a missing assignment? Look up the date and find the activities on the blog plan.
- Need to link to resources for a lesson? Link them to the blog plan.
- Have extra time to kill in class? Let students explore the links you gathered on your website.
- A student lost the instructions for that big student project? No problem. Resources are on the website.
- Johnny tells mom there's no homework? Mom can easily find daily homework assignments on the blog plan.
- Dad wants to know what kids are working on in class? No problem. Tell him to check out the website.
- Wondering how you taught a concept last year? Review your archived blog plans.
- Want to share your lessons with colleagues? No problem. They can surf your blog plan.
- Oh no! It's on the hard drive at school. Nope. Everything is on the website.
- I moved classrooms/ schools/ districts. No sweat. Everything is on my website.
- Need to show evidence of what you've been doing in class? It's all on your blog plan.