Target group Teachers, teacher trainers & course providers
Number of participants Max. 15
Number of sessions 2
Session duration 3 hours
Syllabus Online manuals & videotutorials
Tutors Geert Bonamie
Objectives Provide technical knowledge and skills about applications relevant to the implementation of various blogging and microblogging applications such as Wordpress, Twitter, Tweetdeck and the likes. Provide general knowledge about the use of these for blended learning activities. Raise awareness about pedagogical and methodological skills and differences vis-a-vis traditional teaching methods to effectively implement blended learning activities in the classroom. Raise awareness on the need for a new "digital pedagogy" that will cater to IT-savvy students who are digital-natives.

Participants should have a decent command of Windows, and be familiar with Internet Explorer or Firefox and general Windows file management.

This is a "learning by doing" and "learning while doing" workshop. There are no real lectures; instead the instructions and tutorials are delivered in a step by step fashion, and participants will be invited to gradually explore the new media applications on the web. Following the educational principles of social constructivism, participants will be actively involved and will develop – alone or in small groups – activities for direct use in their lessons, using the full potential of these various web 2.0 applications.

Session 1 Blogging with Wordpress

In this first session you'll learn how to create a Wordpress blog. As the actual act of creating a blog only takes a few minutes, we'll then go on to explore some of the more important settings. Then, it's time for what blogging is all about, really: writing posts. You'll learn how to work with tags and categories. After this first session you will have done or seen everything that is necessary in order to maintain your own blog.

Session 2 Microblogging with twitter

Twitter -is that a small Wordpress? Yes -in one way, and no in another. First we will have a look at what microblogging actually is, and what you can do with it. Then, after having created a Twitter-account, we'll learn how to use it properly, how to find other people, how to retweet, send direct messages, use hash-tags and the likes. Towards the end of the session, we will learn how to work with Tweetdeck (one of the many Twitter clients), in order to keep everything manageable.

Participants get access to the online course material. They are also entitled to one month of full follow-up support via the trouble ticket system.

If you want more information on the content of this workshop, or if you would like to organize this workshop at your school, then please do not hesitate to contact us.

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