Dar es Salaam University College of Education DUCE

Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE) Chang’ombe Secondary School Using ICT in School Blogging July 17 th 2014 A change project Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna 1

What is a blog? A blog (a truncation of the expression web log) is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first) Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna 2

What is blogging? Each and every skill you need to run and manage a Blog is called blogging. Blogging includes Skills Like Writing, Editing and Publishing Posts, Designing and Maintaining the Design of your Website, page or blog etc. Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna 3

Example of blogs http: //ducelibrary. wordpress. com/ Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna 4

Example of blogs Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna 5

Example of blogs http: //issamichuzi. blogspot. com/ Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna 6

Example of blogs Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna 7

Others uses blogs – What about teachers? ? Other people uses blogs to share and disseminate information!!! ØWhat about us (TEACHERS)? ? ? ØAre we using the same? ? ? ØIF NOT, why? ? ? ØLets us use BLOG to enhance TEACHNING, LEARNING and SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION ØIt is POSSIBLE ØEASY, Technologies and Platforms are available freely Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna 8

Hands on activity Demonstration and practices – Blogging q Steps creating a blog (you can use wordpress, blogspot, weebly and many others q Working with a dashboard q Setting, privacy issues and other issues to consider q Creating and publishing a post q Creating and publishing a page q Authentication and user levels q Uploading image q Uploading text file (pdf, ppt, xxl, doc etc) q Uploading audio and video file (from your PC, Internet etc) q Comments q How to manage comments Prepared by Geofrey Kalumuna 9

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