Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE) Chang’ombe Secondary School Using ICT in School Blogging July 17th 2014 A change project Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna
What is a blog? A blog (a truncation of the expression web log) is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first) Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna
What is blogging? Each and every skill you need to run and manage a Blog is called blogging. Blogging includes Skills Like Writing, Editing and Publishing Posts, Designing and Maintaining the Design of your Website, page or blog etc. Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna
Example of blogs http://ducelibrary.wordpress.com/ Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna
Example of blogs Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna
Example of blogs http://issamichuzi.blogspot.com/ Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna
Example of blogs Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna
Others uses blogs – What about teachers???? Other people uses blogs to share and disseminate information!!! What about us (TEACHERS)??? Are we using the same??? IF NOT, why??? Lets us use BLOG to enhance TEACHNING, LEARNING and SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION It is POSSIBLE EASY, Technologies and Platforms are available freely Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna
Hands on activity Demonstration and practices – Blogging Steps creating a blog (you can use wordpress, blogspot, weebly and many others Working with a dashboard Setting, privacy issues and other issues to consider Creating and publishing a post Creating and publishing a page Authentication and user levels Uploading image Uploading text file (pdf, ppt, xxl, doc etc) Uploading audio and video file (from your PC, Internet etc) Comments How to manage comments Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna
Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna