Heather McKibbin

Female

Kyneton, Victoria

Australia

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation: Our Lady of the Rosary PS
Blog: http://www.heather57.globalteacher.org.au
About Me: I am married with 2 adult children. This is my first year out of the classroom since I came back teaching 10 years ago. I am training in Reading Recovery and am the ICT person at my school. I am currently studying Computers in Education for my Grad. Dip. It is a big learning curve but one that I am enjoying. I am also hoping to start up a classroom blog for one of my unit this semester and next semester will be looking at Global Communities, so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Anne Mirtschin

Hello Heather, thank you for your kind words. If I can help at all, please let me know. Do you need to know more about wikis, which one to choose, or just generally how to go about working with and starting them up?

Jun 2, 2009
Anne Mirtschin

Hi Heather, I would first of all demonstrate some interesting teacher blogs, class blogs and student blogs, so that they understand what a blog is. Encourage them to add comments (they will need an email address for this) so that some connections form.
2. Register those interested staff with their own blog eg wordpress, edublogs, blogger etc and help them write their first post. Then, I would try and get some other colleagues to comment on these posts, if possible or get them to comment on each others. Once they have confidence with this, start a class blog and then student blogs. The edublogger has some great advice on getting started.

Jun 11, 2009