School 2.0 in SA

We are having a F2F community blogging workshop on the 28th from 10 o’clock to 4 o’clock at Brecia House in Bryanston, Johannesburg, to get us all into the ‘Blogging thing”. You will have to ask your principal to release you, but I have done a flyer that you can present to your principal/ management. (overview-of-workshop.doc) This is Professional Development in its purest form and it is free! (Bring a chocolate for me and Jill)  If you can only join us in the afternoon, please feel free to do so (if there will be space…). We will also do the normal “sharing of resources” so please bring all your tests, worksheets, creations…. with you on a flash drive. I will ask Jill to organise someone to make disks of all the combined resources for us (and of course we will upload it to the community) or I will bribe my son to come and do it for us…You can also bring photos and stuff to use on your blog.

You will have to let me know if you are coming as ITschools (http://www.itschools.co.za/) have graciously agreed to sponsor the catering and of course there are limited spaces available in the computer room. So just leave a message below (click on comment)

Both Wilna & Sandra will be there as well to share with us their trails and tribulations in creating their ML learning blogs. I am planning to create a ML lesson on a blog using a Petrol price spam e-mail (current context) (please Alwyn- help me out here- he has done a lot with it!!!) and create web 2.0 resources around that to show you how you can extend your blog for teaching and learning.

I would like everybody to create their blog (just the sign in bit) BEFORE the workshop so that we can focus on the “How to use it for learning and teaching bit”  and the dollying -up of the blog during the workshop. I have created a BLOW by BLOW slideshow to help you get it up and running. Just download the powerpoint from here:

http://www.slideshare.net/maggiev/setting-up-a-blog-edublogger/ and follow it closely…..feel free to phone me (0835566962) if you are stuck (seeing that we are not yet part of the NET generation and still like to resort to old technologies!)
[slideshare id=163606&doc=setting-up-a-blog-edublogger-1194891617968098-5&w=425]

I would like to thank Jill at Brecia for making their centre available to us and doing the running on that end and of course ITschools for being a shining example of curriculum integration.

And please I only want brave teachers there, willing to wing it!!! And teachers who are willing to share…

Maggie 2.0

Ps this workshop will be both for my ICT-4-Champions teacher group and my Maths lit group teachers. It will sommer also be our Xmas end of year party as well!!!

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