Interactive Poster for a Blog Post

Using a Google Slide to create an interactive poster for our Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu Teacher Meet today. Content can be included in the poster that remains interactive when you embed in your blog e.g. hyperlinks, sound files and video.
Instructions to create and share

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Tip: Blog posts with a Google Slide only embedded, do not display preview images in a feed e.g. Blog gadgets, featured post, Twitter Feed. Including an image in the post will make it stand out in a feed. Insert an image from your slide at the end of the post so it is picked up in a feed. See example below.

Blog Gadget includes image preview

Difference between posts with images and without

Support your learners to create original content for their blog posts

Today the Summer Learning Journey Teaser (SLJ) activities go live. This is open to any of our learners with individual blogs regardless of whether they have registered for the Summer Learning Journey. The teaser activities are an opportunity for your learners to familiarise themselves with the SLJ activities.

Plus we have created a page on the Cybersmart site sharing ideas to help learners use what they have learnt to create a Digital Learning Object for their blog post. Please support your learners to create original content for their blog post rather than copying and pasting the SLJ activity content.

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Each DLO includes a link to an example on a learner’s blog. Thank you to teachers and learners from Panmure Bridge School, Ruapotaka School, Glen Innes School and St Bernadette's School in Christchurch whose blogs we have referenced.

The Summer Learning Journey activities will be available to download to enable offline access. Take time during the Teaser Week to ensure your learners can confidently access and manage their learning both offline and online. See Google Drive Offline

The SLJ Teaser week is also another awesome opportunity to connect with your Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu buddies from 2019 and comment.

2019 Participation Badge for your blogs

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Empower your learners to continue learning, creating and sharing with their blog throughout the school break. If you're taking some time away from your device schedule posts for the class blog too.  

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Why copy and paste from a Google Doc to Blogger?

There are advantages to using a Google Doc to prepare text for a blog post.

Crafting or composing a text in a Google Doc creates a saved copy for both the learner and teacher.

This copy is a record of what has been written and provides access to the Version History of the document.

Viewing a document's history provides valuable information about how the learner has edited their writing and supports reflecting on and editing text.

Scaffolds can be included in the document for learners e.g. voice typing, writing prompts

Commenting in Google Docs can also be harnessed for feedback and feedforward to support the learner as they write.

If there are any internet issues when publishing in blogger a copy is saved in Google Drive.

Don't forget to Paste and Match Style. Once the text has been pasted into the Blogger post editor, use the Blogger editing tools to format text.

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Google Drive and Blogger

Even if you have been blogging for a while please take a few minutes to browse through the Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu blogger tips to date.

Are you confident that both you and your learners, who have individual blogs, are familiar with these processes and recommendations?

A common problem we see on some learners' blogs is  text in a published blog post overlapping into the sidebar of the blog. 

This happens when content is copied and pasted from a Google Doc to the blog.

Support your learners to use Ctrl - Shift - V when pasting or if the post has been published clear formatting to rectify.  Recommend having a student cast to your screen and demonstrate this process for others to follow. 

Some learners may need to scroll back through their blog and check published posts. If they notice a post that needs to have the formatting cleared, I recommend clicking the small pencil at the end of their post to edit.

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By crafting in Google Docs first, both the learner and teacher, have a record of what has been written. Not only is the content saved but also access to view the Version History is available in Docs.

The value of this is teachers are able to view the document history plus leave feedback/feedforward to support  learners via comments in Google Docs, as they are crafting their writing.

Also if there any issues with blogger publishing content will not be lost as it is saved in Google Drive.

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Empowering our young people to:

• confidently navigate and harness their device and learning applications 
• make the most of this opportunity to learn lots of new things and to share these with others (Manaiakalani Kawa of Care)

...can be significantly impacted by their ability to access learning anytime, anyplace, anywhere and from anyone.

One of the  reasons Manaiakalani has chosen to use GSuite and Chromebooks is that learners are still able to view and edit files offline, including: Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides.

In support of  the Manaiakalani kaupapa,  Connected, Ubiquitous, Empowered and Visible it is critical that all our learners can confidently access and manage their learning both offline and online.

Save and open Google Docs, Sheets & Slides offline