Here is a list of required proficiencies for our blogging class. Please make sure you have completed all of them.

1. Commenting on a blog post on the classroom blog

1. exit slips
2. warm ups

2. Adding a post to a classroom blog

1. Cooks Source Magazine Assignment

3. Creating your own classroom blog
4. Adding contributors to your blog
5. Having a contributor post on your blog
6. Adding a blog list so you can see other peoples’ blogs on your class blog
7. Adding blogger gadgets
8. Adding external gadgets
9. Embedding pictures in a blog post
10. Embedding videos in a blog post
11. Embedding a form in a blog post

1. student info form

12. Embedding a calendar in a blog post
13. Embedding a google doc in a blog post
14. Embedding a slideshow in a blog post
15. Creating a video tutorial and embedding it in a post
16. Picking at least 1 usage model for the fall

1. Basic Usage Models (students comment on your posts): daily agenda, exit slip, warm up
2. Advanced Usage Models (students write their own posts): learning logs, writing assignment, student developed tutorials

Do you have the following gadgets (in any order) on your class blog?

• Labels
• Class Blog List
• Link List
• Translate
• Archive
• contact form
• search
• cc licensing info
• contributors
• at least one widget from an external site
• follow me on twitter