Demonstrating Blog Features

I had better welcome you because Peter Ford is often so nervous that he begins to ramble and digress right from the start, forgetting to introduce himself properly. He is a teacher and an independent ICT consultant - specialising in helping schools make the most of the communicative and collaborative opportunities of the internet. He was the world’s first primary school teacher to use blogs with his pupils way back in the last century. He must be immensely proud of this claim to fame.

There’s still time to make an exit!

In my humble robotic view, the problem with so-called blogging consultants is that they spend hours talking about a process that is really no more than writing in a box and pressing a button. Do not tell him I said that though or I’ll never work again!

I wonder how long Fordy is going to harp on for today? I notice that he is firing up a Powerpoint presentation. Death by powerpoint yet again! Bring on lunch!

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It is very easy to quickly record something on your computer or MP3 player and then upload it for a performance on the blog. Click the audio below.

My Mate Chris

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Students with their own blog or the the ability to write on a class one would benefit from the talkr plug in because it is reasonable at rendering phonetically plausible spelling.

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A blog can be used by the teacher to write about whatever he or she wants. He can also link to other places that he would like his students to explore. If you were learning to read though, this might be a bit of a challenge.

The Talkr plugin automatically converts what I am writing into audio. The voice certainly does not sound like me but it would be quite empowering and reassuring for someone, who was struggling with reading, to visit this page because they can just click on ‘Listen to the Podcast’ and hear what is being communicated. They can also listen and follow the text.

It is clearly not perfect but useful. What I really like about this is that it is happening automatically and all I have to do as teacher is write something useful in the box

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You can either display the images full-size.

You can also use the thumbnail option.

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Bubbl.us is an online site for brainstorming, concept mapping and the like. The results can be displayed in your blog. When you update your brainstorm on the bubbl.us site, changes are automatically displayed on your blog.

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Displaying photo albums using the RockYou site plugin. Captions and styling

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