A while back Rachel Boyd wrote about a video she has posted on teachertube. It’s called ‘Why Let Our Students Blog?’ and it addresses exactly what the title suggests. Now it doesn’t give lots of lengthy evidence into the benefits of blogging – it’s more an introduction probably designed to inspire and enthuse people about them – but it’s worth a watch and it has certainly given me some useful words to use as I think about why I want to get the children at my school blogging.
Download Video: Posted by rachelboyd at TeacherTube.com.
The video also, for me, brings up a whole load of questions about the use of teachertube! I suppose it will stick around But it makes me cringe slightly. In the same way that godtube made me cringe. If I ever get round to making any videos I’ll stick to youtube.
The time has arrived. I have my commoncraft video ready to display, I have my links all lined up and ready to use, I have the convincing examples of the publishing of work and the assessment of work that blogging allows and I am ready to tell the others at school all about it.
I am delivering an ICT based staff meeting tomorrow and I am going to use some of the time to talk about blogging. The main idea is that we, as a school, start to celebrate the work that our school does. Blogging will, I hope, enable us to regularly publish work – be it art, recounts, stories, poetry, audio etc – to an audience. Even if that audience is just my mum to start with.
At the staff meeting we’re also going to have a go at using Audacity. So I may not even get on to the blog thing! Audacity is, as most people are now aware, great. You can use it for recording and editing sounds. In my degree days I played quite a bit with audio editing software (such as Cool Edit – now Adobe Audition, cubase and the like) but I never used Audacity. Probably because it was free and it’s not really as good as the others. But it is great! It’s free (did I mention that?!) and it’s easy to use.
I’ll show you what can be done with it after the staff meeting tomorrow! I may even show you how my school starts blogging too. But that all depends on how much fun we have with Audacity.
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