1. Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE) Chang’ombe Secondary School
Using ICT in School
Blogging
July 17th 2014
A change project
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2. 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)
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3. 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.
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4. Example of blogs http://ducelibrary.wordpress.com/
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5. Example of blogs
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6. Example of blogs http://issamichuzi.blogspot.com/
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7. Example of blogs
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8. 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
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9. 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
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