Reflecting on Blog Posts

During our Staff Meeting last night with Donna something that stuck with me is that I do not yet know enough about the format that the students Blog Posts should take to ensure the most is made of them so that the learning is the greatest and the acceleration observed through Manaiakalani research can be made.

I need to look at good examples of the sections required and make time to specifically teach this to the students at the beginning of Term 2.  I will look at Venessa's students blogs initially.

TITLE

WALT

LEARNING THAT OCCURRED (written and an image or work sample if possible DLO)

REFLECTION (this can be about the learning or the posting - any part of the full learning cycle that occurred).

ADD LABELS

ACTIVELY COMMENT ON OTHER PEOPLE'S BLOGS (Using the Manaiakalani Process).

Venessa shared these with me which will be very helpful.  Thanks Venessa!

UM Quality Blog Post Rubric

Manaiakalani Outreach Quality Blog Post Rubric

Quality Blog Post Rubric 

Adding Photos to Blogs from Drive

This week when Blogging with my students I found there were a lot of complicated steps involved for students to insert photos into their blogs related to their posts which we had taken on the ipad and put into a shared folder.

When sharing this challenge with my DFI Cohort team Kent, our visitor from Point England helped out!

I needed to makes sure that the folder the photos were in had share settings of "Public - on the web"

Once this was done and a link to this folder embedded on out class site, students can insert photos using the "by URL" tab and copying and pasting the "shareable link".

Thanks for help everyone!

My challenge to my self will now to be create a screen-castify of this process so that students can revisit this learning to help them insert photos from our experiences and learning when blogging.