Canadian Education Websites and Blogs

Two years ago when Pat Donaghy/ started the International Edubloggers Directory I could count the number of Canadian teacher blogs on my fingers. Kathy Cassidy and Diane Hammond were pretty much on center stage but since that time I am happy to report that there are large number of Canadian teacher blogs (more every day).

There are a large number of visitors to this blog looking for examples of Canadian Educator Blogs. There is an excellent international list of education bloggers in this list at SupportBlogging.com
but in looking for a list of just canadian educational blogs I couldn’t find one. There is a group called Canadian Mashup at Classroom 20.com and a new ning network at http://canadianteachers.ning.com.

I thought it might be helpful to create a directory of Canadian Education Websites and Blogs so I setup a wiki space as a directory. www.CanadianTeachersBlogs.wikispaces.com At this point it is a list organized by province. Please feel free to add your blog or website. I started to list a few and hesitate to do add more – thinking I might miss some one.

If there is a directory already, point me the way and I will reference it instead.

Classroom Blogging Workshop at Elearning center

If you missed Kim and Lorna’s Elearning Center’s Blogging for Beginners webinar on March 31, 2010, you can still get a chance to create your own blog using Weebly. On Wednesday April 7, 2010 at 7:00 PM EST (GMT-4) we will be running a second blogging workshop and we will also be talking about using blogs in the classroom. Time Zone Converter. Participants in the session will receive a 25% discount on a Weebly pro account.

Please join us by following this link to the session held in the Learn Central Elluminate room.

In this session you will get an overview of how to use Weebly to create a website and Blog for free. Weebly is a great out of the box solution with free hosting and no ads. The drop and drag solution gets you up and running in a a few min. The participants in our session had a web site and had started blogging by the end of the hour. With Weebly you can use images, video and audio, contact form, discussion forums along with polling and other great features.

This screenshot illustrates one of the out of the box professional looking themes. Click the image to enlarge.

If you can’t make it to the session, please feel free to watch the recorded session.

Looking for some good examples of teacher blogs

If you are looking for some inspiration, new ideas or just plain how do other people blog in the classroom you will find these lists of teacher blogs the answer.

• Support Blogging
• International Edubloggers Directory
  

  Where do I begin setting up a classroom blog?

  Posted by admin in Teacher blogs, Teacher resources on 01 30th, 2008 | no responses
  

  Jumping into the world of using Web 2.0 tools there is a mountain of ideas to sort through in getting started. A really good network of bloggers is essential way to keep rooted. There are so many great software applications some one needs to guide your learning. If you don’t you are likely to run away screaming. If you haven’t found classroom 2.0 take a look and sign up. Discussion forums, resources, your own blog are all available free.

  Start blogging yourself. If you are new to blogging then take a look at the Blogging for Beginners section of this website.

  There a few teachers that I would like to highlight.First www.MrWaxlersClass.com. Adam Waxler has used a simple Kubrick default theme for his WordPress blog. Unlike man other teachers, over at edublogs.com, Mr. Waxler chose to host his website as a distinct domain name. Makes good sense. As you become more proficient and your blog gets bigger the only price tag you will need to worry about his your web hosting package. I found that www.dreamhost.com offers a very reasonable package with lots of “goodies”. Take a peek and let them know I sent you – they give out referral fees. You can do the same thing and reduce the cost of your hosting fees.I want to walk through Mr. Waxler’s blog and why I think that it is a good example of where to start. It is extremely helpful for students and their parents. Homework for the week at a glance. Good resources to help with parenting skills. Most importantly it is simple to update. When you get the hang of blogging you can add the bells and whistles like this web site www.masterymaze.com The author of Masterymaze is looking for other teachers to help build a library of subject specific podcasts. A helping hand can be found from Anne Pemberton@ www.educationalsynthesis.org and Kathy Epps and her BlogDay resource.

  Broadcasting with Ustream and Camtwist

  Posted by admin in Teacher blogs, Teacher resources, Ustream, Video on 01 24th, 2008 | one response
  

  Everyday more and more teachers have exciting tools at their finger tips ready to make learning global and easy. Alex Couros demonstrates to folks around the world what is in store for students and classrooms of the 21st century. As if kids had all the fun. Alex did a test drive of a skype conference and Ustream broadcast. Twitting volunteers to join in. This is a screen cast of Alex streaming live (using Snapzpro and my Mac Book Pro). There is no audio as the volume was turned down to stop echo in the skype conference. Alex Couros used Ustream to broadcast and Camtwist (Mac) for the visual effects and desktop demonstrations, Audio Jack and Soundflower to put the production together.

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