Setting Up Your Blogmeister Account

Your Presenters:

Barbara Ozminkowski, K @ Guest

Jen Phillips-Weckstein, K @ Dublin

What is ClassBlogmeister?

BlogMeister is a blogging tool developed for teachers as an authentic publishing environment to promote the development of effective communication skills in students. Teachers establish a blogging account on which they can publish their own articles. Teachers can then set up blogging accounts for their students, which the teacher maintains publishing control.

How It Works

Take a look at our Blogs

Barb’s Blog: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id

=75364

Jen’s Blog:http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id

=118873

ClassBlogmeister

www.classblogmeister.com (Homepage) http://

classblogmeister.com/blogmeister_instructions.pdf (Directions for setting up your Blog)

Walled Lake’s School

Pass Code: wdlecdss

What can you put on your Blog? Animated Text Boxes Pictures (individually or in a slideshow) Videos Podcasts Widgets

Animated Text & Text Boxes

www.glitterfy.com www.metaatem.net/words (text) www.rockyou.com www.voki.com (has sound features) www.fodey.com (animated characters with

customizable speech bubbles) www.blabberize.com (a blabber is a talking

picture!)

Pictures & Slideshows

http://picasa.google.com/ www.flickr.com www.photopeach.com www.rockyou.com www.smilebox.com www.shutterfly.com

Videos, Podcasts, Sound and more!

www.teachertube.com (you can upload your own or embed a video you like from this site on your page)

www.voicethread.com (a way to talk about and share your images, documents and videos)

http://www.yackpack.com/ (instant connection for live talk)

http://animoto.com/ (turn photos and videos into unique slideshows)

Widgets

www.widgetbox.com (countdown clocks, polls, etc.)

www.myflashfetish.com (create slideshows, widgets, Web templates, and other tools for publishing content on webpages)

http://weather.ibegin.com/widget/ (a simple widget that allows you to display weather on your site)

http://bunnyherolabs.com/adopt/ (adopt a pet)

Parent Comments on blogging

Barb - I love love love it ! How cool is blogging for kindergartners?  Because my husband and I work full time we sometimes feel like we short change our kids in staying active in their day to day activities.  But, with you blogging & teaching the kids it kind of gives us a closer connection.  I just went through with Zach some of the topics and pics you've posted, so so awesome.  I was impressed ... he named all the kids but one girl.  And told me that him and Nicholas are great drawers and that he doesn't like salad (I think he meant spinach). :)

Beth

One more…

Mrs. O. Thank you for creating your blog; it is fantastic. Kieran and I reviewed it prior to the start of the school year. I will regularly use it to stimulate conversations between Kieran and I about what was taking place in the classroom. With warm regards on a cool fall day.

Jameson

Let’s get started!

Here’s the long link to my blog:http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?

blogger_id=75364

Here’s a “quick” link to my blog: http://tiny.cc/kinderblog

http://tiny.cc/

Return to Blogmeister

Register Teacher Account

Walled Lake Pass Code: wdlecdss

Registration Form

Pick a Template

Control Panel

From “Documentation” in edit mode:http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.ClassBlogmeisterWiki

For quick answers from the head gurus

If you haven't already, consider joining the new Class Blogmeister social network on Ning. As a member you will be able to interact with other Class Blogmeister teachers, participate in discussion, and run your own profile where you can share your Class Blogmeister activities. Just go to http://classblogmeister.ning.com/?xgi=2J8EbiR.

http://classblogmeister.ning.com/?xgi=2J8EbiR.

Technical Questions Forum

We’re only an email away!

barbozminkowski@wlcsd.org jenniferphillips@wlcsd.org

We’d love to put together some sort of support group to assist you in your blogging journey.

Let us know what we can do to help.

Happy Blogging!

Barb & Jen