Art Teaching with a touch of Technology

'Growing Social Media' by  mkhmarketing  via CC 2.0 We all have needs for posting the great things we do at school.  This session is around how you can customise what you can do, without too much difficulty. Social Media, Websites, Blogs, all help build a profile for your professional life. This session is about how you can create new, or build upon what you already have!

The image to the left is a bunch of piles.  They are sticks, but imagine that the sticks were finished student assignments.  The student picks up their pile, parts of the pile makes it home neatly in a folder.  Some of the pile makes it home, crumpled up in the student's backpack.  Other parts of the pile are never seen again.   Photo Credit:  Ian Sane  via  Compfight   cc How do we get the good stuff home?   The answer is Publishing.  Blogger, is a blogging platform that students have accounts for, attached to their Google Apps for Education accounts.  Blogging is Publishing.   Are your students writing? Making movies? Drawing? Taking photos? Recording their voices?  These can all be added to their Blog, easily. If so, Let Blogger become their "one stop shop" to publish all of their work. Blog Setup & Settings Download the Blog Settings Cheat Sheet Conventions Blogging...