1. Thinking about pedagogy and using Edublogs looking at student and teacher use of Edublogs

2. What is a blog?  Literally a ‘web log’  Using a range of Web publishing tools  Are interactive and invite comment  Social Media  Social Networking Tool  Democratisation of information delivery media and authors

3. Blogs and Loreto  Used for conversations  Used in Integrated Learning  Used in Extension History

4. Why blog ?  Students at Loreto have been resistant to blogging  Students can be resistant to logging the learning process  They want to ‘get on with work’

5. Why blog?  Can be perceived as part of social networking’s trivialisation of communication  Not ‘ OMG I love George Clooney LOL…just drank a cup of tea -nice’  A place to develop ideas and refine understanding and arguments in a collaborative interactive environment

6. Why blog?  Blogs should be places where students and teachers share their thoughts and ideas.  Ownership of the blog  Loreto Normanhurst blogs have belonged to the school  Static  Just another worksheet

7. Limitations of Sharepoint Blogs

8. Why Edublogs?  http://edublogs.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/blo gs/ http://edublogs.loretonh.nsw.edu.au/blo gs/  Product and process  Functionalities  Collaborative  Upload a variety of media  Link with social media  Tailor them to suit your needs

9. Edublogs and History  Individual student blogs to record process of researching  Teacher blog to model and share ideas