Video: History of the Internet

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo. An animated documentary explaining the invention and evolution of the Internet.

How to Get Started with Google's Blogger

Google worked very hard to make it very easy for anyone to create a free blog in 5 minutes.

Start with the tour walk through by clicking here.

If you want their guide click here

Also check out their video tutorials on the Blogger's youtube channel

Video Demo: Getting Started with the XO Laptop

Video: Google Docs in Plain English

Google Docs in Plain English

Basically Google Docs is Microsoft Office suite on line. Instead of software that is downloaded and runs on your computer you have webware that is run inside your web browser from any computer. Also gDocs allows you to access your documents from anywhere and to collaborate with others on a live document rather than sending different version attachments back and forth. You can also publish, embed, and email to share your files. Oh and it is also free, all you need to do is sign up for a google account.

Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

Check out, download, and read the evolution of the classic Bloom's Taxonomy into the Digital Bloom's Taxonomy  at http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom's+Digital+Taxonomy

How I Ran a Blog Training Workshop

First I shared my blog with some teachers at my school to create a little buzz. Then I invited 3 teacher leaders that I new have the basic tech skills down that would be interested in and willing to give blogs and try to a voluntary 40 minute blog PD before school. I thought it went pretty smooth all of them got their blog up and running by the end of the 40 minutes. Here is how I ran the session:

Google’s Blogger Training: How to Set Up Your Blog

1) show them my blogging resources on my ambrose.edvibes.com blog, so they don’t have to take notes and they can find more info later.

2) Familiarize the structure of blogs using my class blog classofambrose.blogspot.com
-Header
-Sidebar
-Reverse chronology
-Comments
-Labels
-Widgets

3) How to navigate through blogs
-Find a post through the archives
-Find a post through labels

4) Internet Safety & Digital Citizenship
-Share my blog contract

5) Set up a blogger acnt
-Need a google acnt

6) Name your blog and choose an address
-make it kid friendly: easy to remember and spell

7) Choose a background

8 ) Go through settings
*Must change commend moderation ON
*Put an email address to receive comments to moderate

9) Show dashboard navigation

10) Create a new post

11) Show WYSWYG editor
-Compose vs Html mode

12) How to add an image
-from computer
-from web

13) How to embed a youtube video

14) How to hyperlink

15) Adding labels

16) Customizing the layout
-add page elements (labels, link list)

Then I followed up with a support email giving them the link to my post What, How, and Why Blog.

Next time make a handout for them with the agenda and some links so they can take notes and have something to remind them of their blog later.