In this week’s post I will be discussing the use of specific ICT’s in classrooms. This week we learnt about Wikis, Blogs and Websites.
The activity we are tasked with is to reflect on one of these ICTs. For this, I have chosen to create a ‘Weebly’ which will contain my reflection on Blogs.
So without further delay, please redirect yourself to the Weebly link below and continue reading.
http://ictsineverydayeducation.weebly.com/
I had a few technical difficulties uploading Paul onto Weebly. So the “Blog Features” section of my website, will instead be here. So without further adieu:
Blog Features:
Now we move on to the technical features of a blog. To take you through some of the technical features I have created a Voki, click on his play button and read along as Paul talks you through the second half of this post:
When creating a blog there are many things that you look forward to doing and many things that you really don't want to do. When I constructed my blog, the set up was easy. Blog spot gave me templates, fonts, ways to arrange my page and more. Everything was set up for me, I just had to choose what I liked.
What I like most about my blog spot, is even though it has been set up and I have posted numerously, I can still customise and change the design if I wish to, as easy as pie.
Blog spot has many technical features that you can change to individualize, so that the blog is your own.
You can change the writings font, colour, size and location on the page as well as add images, videos and links. You can add Voki's like myself, wordle's and gifs - images that can be either animated or static. In some blogs, you can view how many people have seen your page in a day, who has subscribed to follow you and you can also follow other peoples blogs as well.
You can comment on other peoples blogs. I like to comment on other blogs because they have helped me understand something further, or I want to know more information. I can connect with these people through blogs.
Now that you have read my reflection on blogs please continue your viewing to my Wiki space to read my reflection of the pedagogical advantages of using blogs in classrooms.
https://icts0228156.wikispaces.com
So you’ve finished visiting my Weebly and Wiki.
Congratulations. That means you’ve finished this week’s blog post!!
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You definitely have a better flair for colour than I do! I love your schemes and templates!
ReplyDeleteNice blog, very sleek! Quick question....how'd you manage to get the voki embedded into the post? I've been trying to no avail..
ReplyDeleteOnce you have copied the code from the voki website (after you publish the voki) go into your blog post and up the top left there are two options, 'compose' and 'html'.
ReplyDeleteHtml is where the code is for your post. You need to make sure you know where in the writing you want your voki!!! (very important otherwise you will get very confused). Paste the code as plain text within the code, in between the paragraphs you want your voki to be placed and underneath the voki code add < b / > (pretty sure, no spaces though) which is code for the enter key haha.
Go back into compose and check to see if there is a big white box where you pasted the code, or click on the preview button top right hand corner. If it has not worked, I'm not entirely sure what to do, but this should work.
Good luck!