K-12 Blogger Sessions

School sessions are designed to teach teachers and students how to use blogger for collaborative projects, especially in Social Studies and Language Arts. School sessions are usually a day long with responsible students from each class in grades 4-12 being trained as assistants for when their class comes to a computer lab or the whole class has access to laptop computers. [See Participating in FACTSned (FACTSnet Educational Blogs)]

Grades 1-6

In these sessions it is suggested that students in grades 4-6 are paired up with students in grades 1-3. The older students read and help the younger students with projects related to topics assigned by the teacher. Topics for grades 1&2 could relate to social studies and resources found in local history books. Teachers can set up a class (school) blogger accounts so that responsible students can do some authoring functions.

Grades 7-12

Students who are at least 13 years old can get personal blogger accounts and could participate in inter-school networks as blog authors. Sessions for grades 7-12 will vary depending on the interest of the sponsoring school.

Grades 10-12 CTS Credit  FACTSnet Workshops

FACTSnet is working with schools to offer CTS Project Module (email factsc@gmail.com to get access to this link) credit in conjunction with our blogger workshops and certification of blog administrators.

To schedule a training session email factsc@gmail.com

Workshops in General

Workshops (need to be registered to have access) are designed to facilitate participation in FACTSnet blogs, see Participation in FACTSnet Blogs post for the different levels of participation.

Workshops are usually custom designed to meet specific needs an all day workshop will include workshops for authors, administrators, and introduce coordinator and other levels of participation, as well provide an overview of FACTSnet.

For Schools see K-12 Blogger Training Sessions

Community Sessions:

These sessions are 2 - 3 hours of initial training for each level of FACTSnet Blog participation.
Coordinators will also follow up training by participating in one or more blogs with trainees who are interning to become coordinators.

For more information, or to register for a workshop, please email factsc@gmail.com.

Index

• Workshops in General  
• Educational Blogger Training Sessions
• Exerpts from "To blog or not to blog" (Lists the benefits of blogging).
  

Past Workshops: 

• Summer Heritage 2009 & August 20 Blogger Workshop
• FACTSnet (Family and Community Twining Society Networks) Workshop Feedback from March 6th workshop