3 effective blogs for classroom use.
Glogster http://edu.glogster.com/
Website that allows creation of interactive digital 'posters'.
Students can combine multimedia to go beyond what a traditional poster could accomplish, so instead of text and pictures glued on cardboard, a completed glog may incorporate graphics and text, links to websites, embedded video and audio, and is accessible across the web, rather than just the classroom. Glogster provides galleries of content, via an easy 'Drag and Drop' method. Its suitable for all stages.
Pixton http://www.pixton.com/uk/schools/overview
Like Toondoo, Pixton is a digital comic creator, allowing students to contrl every aspect of story creation. it allows development of ideas in a interactive way, while learning how to tell a story in a logical sequence, communication and colaboration with others and visual storytelling. Completed comics can be saved and embedded on the web, to be shared with others. it is customizable for use across all stages.
Myths and Legends http://myths.e2bn.org/index.php
I remember becomng interested in myths and legends from about 8 onwards, and can see the application of this site for stage 2. As well as providing students with information about myths and legends, the website provides students with their own story creator. Students can take frames provided from the website and record themselves narrating their own story, similar to I-Movie, I-Photo, Garageband, etc.
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