setting up your blogmeister account your presenters: barbara ozminkowski, k @ guest jen...
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Setting Up Your Blogmeister Account
Your Presenters:
Barbara Ozminkowski, K @ Guest
Jen Phillips-Weckstein, K @ Dublin
What is ClassBlogmeister?
BlogMeister is a blogging tool developed for teachers as an authentic publishing environment to promote the development of effective communication skills in students. Teachers establish a blogging account on which they can publish their own articles. Teachers can then set up blogging accounts for their students, which the teacher maintains publishing control.
How It Works
Take a look at our Blogs
Barb’s Blog: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id
=75364
Jen’s Blog:http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id
=118873
ClassBlogmeister
www.classblogmeister.com (Homepage) http://
classblogmeister.com/blogmeister_instructions.pdf (Directions for setting up your Blog)
Walled Lake’s School
Pass Code: wdlecdss
What can you put on your Blog? Animated Text Boxes Pictures (individually or in a slideshow) Videos Podcasts Widgets
Animated Text & Text Boxes
www.glitterfy.com www.metaatem.net/words (text) www.rockyou.com www.voki.com (has sound features) www.fodey.com (animated characters with
customizable speech bubbles) www.blabberize.com (a blabber is a talking
picture!)
Pictures & Slideshows
http://picasa.google.com/ www.flickr.com www.photopeach.com www.rockyou.com www.smilebox.com www.shutterfly.com
Videos, Podcasts, Sound and more!
www.teachertube.com (you can upload your own or embed a video you like from this site on your page)
www.voicethread.com (a way to talk about and share your images, documents and videos)
http://www.yackpack.com/ (instant connection for live talk)
http://animoto.com/ (turn photos and videos into unique slideshows)
Widgets
www.widgetbox.com (countdown clocks, polls, etc.)
www.myflashfetish.com (create slideshows, widgets, Web templates, and other tools for publishing content on webpages)
http://weather.ibegin.com/widget/ (a simple widget that allows you to display weather on your site)
http://bunnyherolabs.com/adopt/ (adopt a pet)
Parent Comments on blogging
Barb - I love love love it ! How cool is blogging for kindergartners? Because my husband and I work full time we sometimes feel like we short change our kids in staying active in their day to day activities. But, with you blogging & teaching the kids it kind of gives us a closer connection. I just went through with Zach some of the topics and pics you've posted, so so awesome. I was impressed ... he named all the kids but one girl. And told me that him and Nicholas are great drawers and that he doesn't like salad (I think he meant spinach). :)
Beth
One more…
Mrs. O. Thank you for creating your blog; it is fantastic. Kieran and I reviewed it prior to the start of the school year. I will regularly use it to stimulate conversations between Kieran and I about what was taking place in the classroom. With warm regards on a cool fall day.
Jameson
Let’s get started!
Here’s the long link to my blog:http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?
blogger_id=75364
Here’s a “quick” link to my blog: http://tiny.cc/kinderblog
http://tiny.cc/
Return to Blogmeister
Register Teacher Account
Walled Lake Pass Code: wdlecdss
Registration Form
Pick a Template
Control Panel
From “Documentation” in edit mode:http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.ClassBlogmeisterWiki
For quick answers from the head gurus
If you haven't already, consider joining the new Class Blogmeister social network on Ning. As a member you will be able to interact with other Class Blogmeister teachers, participate in discussion, and run your own profile where you can share your Class Blogmeister activities. Just go to http://classblogmeister.ning.com/?xgi=2J8EbiR.
http://classblogmeister.ning.com/?xgi=2J8EbiR.
Technical Questions Forum
We’re only an email away!
[email protected] [email protected]
We’d love to put together some sort of support group to assist you in your blogging journey.
Let us know what we can do to help.
Happy Blogging!
Barb & Jen