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=Blogging on with Bard Wired= [|www.bardwired.blogspot.com] Go on a blogging journey with the Bard and discover how blogging emerged as a tool for documenting one cluster’s experience into a personal learning environment for the Bard. Share lessons learnt along the way and pick up tips to compliment your Web 2.0 Toolkit.

//For our Kids:// “Many teachers believe that mastering e-mail and operating a mobile phone puts them at the edge of technological mastery. Even those who work in roles related to information literacy and computing studies often are only aware of Web 2.0 in passing but not necessarily in potential. But now small pockets of educators globally connected via blogs, wikis and podcasts are leveraging these new and emerging technologies to make learning engaging and relevant to their students, equipping their students with the skills to navigate and publish to the web ethically and safely. Teachers bring with themselves a working knowledge of how information has been traditionally distributed, how information has been ratified and verified, and how expertise in specific fields has been developed. Web 2.0 changes that paradigm in that it allows users to personalise information, to treat all sources as worthy of attention and to access many, many sources at one time. … Teachers have the skills and responsibility to teach students how to critically navigate the information overflow but only if they have //working knowledge of the new information landscape.”// Graham Wegner
 * Why Blog?**
 * Our kids need role models and guides to teach them //socialisation skills to participate in a connected community//**

I blog because:
 * //For Our own Professional Learning//**
 * record, reflect & share my work
 * record, reflect & share what I am reading (other blogs)
 * learn from others and keep up with my areas of interest
 * create my own personal learning network of people and resources
 * a linked archive of categorised resources gathered on my learning journey (all the web 2.0 tools support this)
 * to connect, to be part of a wider community - my schools, colleagues, network of other bloggers


 * //A Useful Tool for ICTPD Clusters//**
 * keeps everyone informed about what the Facilitator is doing ;-)
 * informs teachers of the great things happening around the cluster school
 * supports the sharing of ideas linking back to online resources
 * fosters communication & a community of practice through the cluster especially if you have multiple contributors and through the conversations that take place in commenting on blog posts
 * provides 'evidence data' of cluster goals & activities to support reporting to milestones
 * the use of photos & multi-media to show classroom practice or share examples of work is so much more interesting than the usual dry text based reporting
 * a very efficient and reliable way to keep up-to-date with educational technology not just in NZ but globally


 * [|Why is blogging important to me?]** Contribution to Graham's k12online2006 Workshop "No Teacher Left Behind"

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