Blogging

Considerations when creating Blogs
1. start small. Create a centre blog which is for communicating between the different areas in the centre. Invitation only.

2. Begin conversations with your community early in the process, and before opening it up to all parents, do a trial with one or two.

3. Run a parent's cybersafety session EARLY in the process.

4. Consider how you might handle a privacy issues for a child whose images cannot be shared (eg if parents don't want this, or if there are protection and safety issues)

5. Do you allow parents to use their own cameras? If so how do you guarantee that a particular child's image will not be used? (4 above)

6. Make sure that you have teacher and whanau Cybersaftey agreements in place.

7. What happens when a child leaves a centre - who owns their images?

8. Blogs must be updated regularly to keep people interested.

9. Commitment from all teachers, and lots of support for those who are a little nervous

This is the latest from Netsafe about Blogging and Cybersafety considerations when thinking about blogging



The workshop notes below can be used by you personally, however, please contact [|CORE Education] before duplicating or sharing these resources with people outside Clevedon Kidz centres.

Blogging Notes from [|Naketa Ferguson] (ECE ICT PL Facilitator Auckland) Email naketa.ferguson@core-ed.net



Tools to help Personalise your blog:
[|Voicethread] This programme is useful for getting child's voice and responses from viewers

[|Bling4 your blog] This blog tells you how to personalise your blog, including removing the 'next blog' tab at the top (may need to be modified for new blogger templates - see next link)

[|Remove Navbar from your blog] This seems to be the way to remove the navbar from recent Blogger templates. (Untested)

[|Blog templates and backgrounds] This site has a huge range of free backgrounds

[|Slide Shows] for your blog. This is a FREE platform and easy to embed into blog. An alternative to movies/photos on your blog.

[|Blog Counters] FREE tool to keep track of how many visitors to your blog.

[|Cluster Map] - To show what country visitors are coming from on your blog.

[|Feedjit] - Live traffic feed - Able to track where your visitors find your blog and when.

[|Copyright FREE music] - Use if you are adding music to any video/movie that you make for your blog.

[|A clock for your blog] - interesting if you having blogging buddies in another country and can have their time and your time on blog

[|Glogster] - Use glogster to create "posters" that can be embedded into any web page - can add pictures, links, video etc