I'm teaching AP Lang. and Comp. this coming school year and I have elected not to order text books. Does anyone teach this class, or any other class, without a text book and rely on digital resources? If so, I would love some advice. I teach in a school that is not a 1:1 computing institution (yet). I'm concerned with content management as well as student access to the materials. Additionally, I would like to have all my students maintain blogs. Any suggestions?Thanks,Bryan JeffreysSee More
If your blogger account allows content upload then convert your .doc file to a .pdf and upload. Microsoft Office 2007 products allow make this conversion easy but earlier versions of Office might require the use of a service like Zamzar.
If your…
I use posterous.com for everything. I use it to forward messages and quick blogs posts to my blogger account. It's so easy to set up- you just email post@posterous.com- they'll send you an email back showing you where your new…
I'd use dropbox. www.getdropbox.com
This program puts all of your documents up in the cloud, and you can get public links to any file you want.
Check out my blog post about this on my blog
ClassTech
I'm with Jill too.
Upload to google docs, then share the resulting link onto your blog. Actually, you can even embed your doc into the post, which makes it even easier to access.
Let me know if you need more detailed instructions.
I mainly do what Jil Wright suggested. Other things I do include posting relevant documents on a wiki and linking to that. Finally docstoc.com let's you upload a document for linking.
I have used screen-captured programs like Jing--and saved the word document as an image--and then upload the picture as you normally would in your post. Hope this helps!
Jared
If I want to link to a document, I usually put it on google docs, then put a link to it on my blog...or if its too big you can try some of the online storing / sharing solutions out there. Adrive.com gives you 50 gigs of space, but I've never…
Hi all,I'm using Blogger as the platform for my class blogs this semester and I would like to link to course documents (mostly word docs) from the blog. Is there an effective way to do this?Thanks,BryanSee More
I have been asked help improve, or create, a culture of writing in our school. My task involves developing our English department's web page so that it enhances the culture. I'm looking for advice regarding website content and/or links to English department sites as examples.Thanks,Bryan JeffreysJuan Diego Catholic High SchoolDraper, UtahSee More
Jeff,
Thank you for the helpful information. I agree with you on the importance of teaching about online journalism. My goal is to have the paper be primarily an online publication. I'm not at the school where I'll be teaching journalism…
Bryan,
Every major newspaper has an online edition. Some (Seattle P-I, Christian Science Monitor) have gone to online only. We do our journalism students a big disfavor if we don't teach them about online journalism.
Here's a link to a…
Hello all,My name is Bryan Jeffreys and I'm a new member here. I've been presented with the opportunity/challenge this coming fall to "re-create" or "re-build" the school paper. I'm relatively inexperienced with high school journalism as a whole, but this unique opportunity will allow me to incorporate ed. tech. into the program from the start (or re-start). Does anyone have ideas about a) using networking technologies in a basic journalism class, and/or b) using those technologies in the…See More