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Why would anyone want a blog?
“We were creating web pages back in the 90’s!”
What’s different?
Introducing Blogs
What are What are blogs?blogs?
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Types of Blogs
Teenage Angst
Cat Diaries
Photo Blogs
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Online Newsletter
Resource List
Disposable Blogs
Rich Professional Learning
Why Should I care?
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……the benefit was being able to the benefit was being able to plug into the mind of a very plug into the mind of a very sharp teenager and connect on a sharp teenager and connect on a professional level across professional level across generational lines. I witnessed generational lines. I witnessed the evolution of her thought the evolution of her thought processes and writing skills as processes and writing skills as she dealt with feedback. Blogs she dealt with feedback. Blogs allow a teacher to literally take allow a teacher to literally take their kids out into the world from their kids out into the world from classrooms anywhere in America. classrooms anywhere in America. I’d do it again in a heartbeat I’d do it again in a heartbeat
Scott Higham Pulitzer Prize Scott Higham Pulitzer Prize journalistjournalist
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Bob Langert VP McDonalds
Clayton WilcoxSuperintendent Tampa, FL
Clarence FisherClarence FisherGrade 7/8Grade 7/8Snow Lake, MBSnow Lake, MB
Konrad GlogowskiToronto, ON
Grade 8
Darren KuropatwaDarren KuropatwaWinnipeg, MBWinnipeg, MBHigh School MathHigh School Math
Kathy CassidyKathy CassidyMoose Jaw, SKMoose Jaw, SKGrade 1Grade 1
Alan StangeAlan StangePrincipalPrincipal
Central Butte, SKCentral Butte, SK
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“Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers. The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is himself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow. In this process, arguments based on “authority” are no longer valid; in order to function, authority must be on the side of freedom, not against it. Here, no one teaches another, nor is anyone self-taught.” Paulo Freire
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