Workshop Presentation
Heather Blakey will be presenting a workshop about using technology in Education which focuses on blogging at the Billunook Primary and Middle School Resource Centre on Tuesday 15th August, 2006.
Blogging
Presented by Heather Blakey
The challenge for educators is to rethink curriculum and move to relevant technology based curriculum. The blogger revolution is changing not only personal and global communications but thinking, technical, personal and workplace skills.
For all intents and purposes blog is a static piece of software but innovative educators are infusing it with oxygen and are using it to engage their students, provide real audiences and develop interactive clusters of learning. Teachers are using new technology tools such as Blog, WriteBoard, Audio Blog, Pod Casting in their provision of higher thinking skill based curriculum.
Heather Blakey, a teacher with over thirty five years of teaching experience, has been working in this digital communication landscape for over ten years and is currently working with the Victorian Education Channel and Slav to establish a safe virtual blogging cluster for teachers and students from around the world. Learn more about the digital landscape with which your students are already familiar and see for yourself how the blogger revolution is changing the educational environment.
Heather Blakey will share her knowledge of innovative applications for blog, ipods and mobile phones within a school setting. She will also address the security issues, which concern teachers. By the end of the session you will be inspired to create a blog and begin networking with your students and like minded people from all over the world.
