Sunday 15 February 2009

Tasks-Week 6

Week: Feb 16-22, 2009

Rounding Off- Closing

Tasks

I. Write your reflections about the bblep09 session.

Go to Reflections on Bblep09. Think of:

  • your own learning process
  • the resources used to help you become familiar with Blog-based lessons and e-portfolios
  • the organization of the session
  • your tutors' work
  • your suggestions for this session
  • any other comment

II. Take a survey about the Bblep09 session.

To take the survey go to Survey Monkey.

III. Share a gift with e-peers and tutors.

As a farewell activity add a video (s), picture (s), websites, poems, whatever you want as a token to those who participated in this EVO session.

To post your gift, please send your e-mail to mmendoza97@gmail.com to be invited as an author to Bblep09 gifts

IV. Say your Farewell to Bblep09.

Go to Farewells to Bblep09 to say good-bye to your e-peers and tutors.

Note:

If you haven’t finished your blog-based lesson and e-portfolio you still have this week (6) to do so. Also we would like to remind you that the Yahoo group for this session will remain open for you to check resources, tasks and project samples.


Troubleshooting

If you have any technical problems you can write your doubts in our forum. You can also Skype tutors or contact them at bblep09@gmail.com


Fourth chat session

Tool: WIZiQ

Date: Saturday 22

Time: (We will announce it soon)

Agenda: Bblep09 online party

Please go to the World Clock to check exactly what time it will be in your country:

If you are not able to make it, we will post the recording of the session in our blog.


Checklist

Make sure at the end of the week you have:

  1. Post your reflections
  2. Take the session survey
  3. Post a gift
  4. Say good-bye to e-peers & tutors
  5. Attend the Bblep09 party


Comments / Insights (Optional)

To write comments or insights about this first week go to: Weekly comments/Insights

Troub

Sunday 8 February 2009

Task- Week 5

Week 5: Feb.9 - Feb.15, 2009

Designing your e-PORTFOLIOS

Tasks

I. Read an article on e-potfolios.

Read this article before you start working on the e-portfolio for your blog-based lesson.

e-potfolios

After reading this article go to e-portfolios and write a post saying what you think about e-portfolios.

II. How to design your e-portfolio for your blog-based lesson.

To design your e-portfolio you should:

1. create one single post in the blog you created last week. This one entry will serve as a portal for both teachers and students to learn or have access to the class e-portfolios.

This e-portfolio has got the following purposes:

  • To collect what students have done from the blog-based lessons.
  • To provide instructions to students to create their blogs and the posts they will making along the semester or school year.
  • To inform students on evaluation
  • to serve as a portal to have access to the web-based lesson
  • To have easy access to students’ posts from one single spot.

2. Add the following aspects to your entry:

I. Welcome message (A generic message to welcome your students or anybody who would like to visit this portal)

II. About us (A brief description about yourself)

III. The project (say briefly what this e-portfolio is all about).

     3.1. Objective(s)

     3.2. Audience

     3.3. Steps: (Qhat students have to do to create their blogs and what they will post there)

IV. Schedule: (Content and activities to be posted per week)

V. Structure (Identify what all students should have in their blogs)

VI. Evaluation: (Quantitative and qualitative)

VII. Resources: (Here you will provide a link to your blog-based lesson)

Have a look at the following video giving you a tour on a sample e-portfolio.

e-portfolio sample

Here’s a link for the e-portfolio sample in Blogger.

You can also have a look at the following graphic representing the connection among the e-portfolio portal, the blog-based lesson and the students’ blogs.

The e-portfolio and blog-based lesson

III. Add a widget to your blog to have easy access to your students’ blog from the e-portfolio portal.

Have a look at the following video to show you how to add Blog lines to keep track of your students’ blogs.

Adding a blogroll

IV. Create your own e-portfolios

Now it is time to design our own e-portfolio. Follow the suggestions given in the video tutorial. It should have:

1. One single entry

2. The following parts: Welcome; About us (me); Project; Schedule; Structure; Evaluation; Resources

3. A blogroll

II. Add the link to your e-portfolio in our Yahoo group.

1. Go to our Yahoo group and go to Links.

2. Click e-portfolios and add the link there.

3. Choose one e-portfolios from one of your e-peers and evaluate it in Our Bblep09 e-portfolios.


Troubleshooting

If you have any technical problems you can write your doubts in our forum. You can also Skype tutors or contact them at bblep09@gmail.com


Tutoring sessions

If you would like to clarify doubts about content, tasks or anything related to the session you can contact your tutors in Skype in the following office hours:

Skype Office hours (Venezuelan time / UTC/GMT -4:30 hours ):

Evelyn Izquierdo

ID: evelyn.izquierdo

Tuesdays: UTC/GMT 13:30-16:30 (Caracas: 9:am – 12:00)

Thursdays: UTC/GMT 19:00-21:00 (Caracas: 2:30 – 4:30pm)

Teadira Pérez:

ID: teadira

Tuesdays: UTC/GMT 19:00-19:30 (Caracas: 2:30 – 3:00pm)

Wednesday: UTC/GMT 12:00- 12:30 (Caracas: 7:30 – 8:00am)

Miguel Mendoza

ID: miguel_mendoza97

Mondays: UTC/GMT 18:00- 18:30 (Caracas: 1:00-1:30pm)

Fridays: UTC/GMT 18:00- 18:30 (Caracas: 1:00-1:30pm)


Third chat session

Tool: WIZiQ

Date: (We will announce it soon)

Time: (We will announce it soon)

Agenda: To discuss blogging, task-based approach, web-based lesson design.

Please go to the World Clock to check exactly what time it will be in your country:

If you are not able to make it, we will post the recording of the session in our blog.


Checklist

Make sure at the end of the week you have:

  1. Read an article on e-potfolios
  2. Check tutorials for designing a portfolio portal.
  3. Create a blogroll
  4. Create your e-portfolio
  5. Add e-portfolio link to e-portfolio
  6. Check and comment on an e-peer’s portfolio.

Comments / Insights (Optional)

To write comments or insights about this first week go to: Weekly comments/Insights

Troub

Sunday 1 February 2009

Tasks- Week 4

Feb. 2nd-8th

Designing your web-based lesson (2)

Tasks

I. Start adding content from your lesson plan to your blog.

Most of you have already planned your blog-based lesson. some of you have even received comments on your plans  from your e-peers. Now it is time to start adding content to your blog-based lesson site. To do so you can:

1. Create a first post describing a bit your blog site.

2. Create a second post with the content you planned for your blog-based lesson.

Here are some video tutorials on how to use the dashboard, add links, images and videos to your posts.

Intro

Adding text

(Here’s more an interesting post on formatting in blogs)

Adding links

Adding Images and videos

II. Add the link to your blog in our Yahoo group.

To share what you have done in your blogs, please:

1. Go to our Yahoo group and go to Links.

2. Click Blog-based lessons and add your blog link there.

III. Visit one of your e-peers’ blog sites and write what you think about it in My e-peer’s blog-based lesson site:

While browsing his/her blog think about this:

  1. Does it clearly show the different stages of a web-based lesson (Pre-task / Task / Post-task)?
  2. Is it easy to navigate in the blog?
  3. What do you think about the content?
  4. Any other comment?

IV. Get ready for your e-portfolio portal

You are going to create a blog that will serve as the portal for your students’ e-portfolio. The only thing you have to do is:

1. Create a blog in Blogger.

2. Give a name to your portal like My 6th graders e-portfolio or something.

To do so, go to the dashboard and click on “Create a blog”

dashboard 

3. Read about e-portfolios in the Resources section in Week 4.

Note: We will continue working on e-portfolios next week (Week 5).


Troubleshooting

If you have any technical problems you can write your doubts in our forum. You can also Skype tutors or contact them at bblep09@gmail.com


Tutoring sessions

If you would like to clarify doubts about content, tasks or anything related to the session you can contact your tutors in Skype in the following office hours:

Skype Office hours (Venezuelan time / UTC/GMT -4:30 hours ):

Evelyn Izquierdo

ID: evelyn.izquierdo

Tuesdays: UTC/GMT 13:30-16:30 (Caracas: 9:am – 12:00)

Thursdays: UTC/GMT 19:00-21:00 (Caracas: 2:30 – 4:30pm)

Teadira Pérez:

ID: teadira

Tuesdays: UTC/GMT 19:00-19:30 (Caracas: 2:30 – 3:00pm)

Wednesday: UTC/GMT 12:00- 12:30 (Caracas: 7:30 – 8:00am)

Miguel Mendoza

ID: miguel_mendoza97

Mondays: UTC/GMT 18:00- 18:30 (Caracas: 1:00-1:30pm)

Fridays: UTC/GMT 18:00- 18:30 (Caracas: 1:00-1:30pm)


No chat session for this week


Checklist

Make sure at the end of the week you have:

  1. Start designing your blog-based lesson following our lesson plan.
  2. Add your blog link to the Yahoo group session.
  3. Write a post about one of your e-peers blog-based lessons
  4. Create a blog for your e-portfolio portal
  5. Read what e-portfolios are in the Resources section for Week 4.

Comments / Insights (Optional)

To write comments or insights about this first week go to: Weekly comments/Insights

Troub