From Blogs to Digital Learning Spaces:

Thoughts on using web 2.0 tools within

classrooms and schools

Colin Campbell
Curriculum coordinator and English teacher
Yokohama International School
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blog Curriculum coordinator and English teacher
Yokohama International School
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21st Century literacy

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Curriculum English
coordinator teacher

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Curriculum English
coordinator teacher

21st Century literacy Language skills

Digital infrastructure Media literacy

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 Key practical skills that will bring a
website or blog to life
1. How to get started/ sign-up etc and how to find passwords.
addresses etc?

2. How to switch between the front and back of a blog, wiki or

website?

3. How to make a word, image or video clickable?

4. How to create a network or hub of blogs?

5. How to embed video, images, pdf files etc into your blog/
wiki etc?
6. How to create static pages on a blog?