Learning to blog

Did you know that you can send emails to the ESOL blog?

The body of the email is the post and the subject of the email is the
title. You can even attach photos and they will go into the ESOL blog.

Rob

Parent Talk Time learning to blog

Today we learnt how to:

1. How to log into the ESOL blog.
2. Make a comment on the ESOL blog.
3. How to email a blog post to family or friends overseas.
   
4. How to make a blog post.
5. How to email to the blog!
   

Test email post

This is a test post to see if hyperlinks work, plus if images can be
emailed directly to the blog. Isn't my girl cute!

Rob Clarke

Translation Tools

I found this link tonight which has links to various translation tools. We need to play with them to find the best solution for the ESOL community.

This link called Taragana (US$30 but need to check it it works in a Blogger blog) in my delicious links tagged 'translation' may be worth looking at as it is reputed to be more accurate than many of the freely available tools:

http://delicious.com/robclarke/translation (this is where all my translation links will be stored)

Here is a whole raft of flags, many of which won't be relevant to us:

Grab this widget

Reference: www.techieblogger.com

Features we'd like on this blog

Dear Glenys, Judith and Amy,

As part of your learning about using a blog, can you each please give some thought to the sorts of features you might want to include on a tool like this and record your ideas as comments to this post? My thoughts include:

• Translation if we can find one that works well enough.
• Labels for each child in the ESOL programme.
• We need to consider whether each child will get their own Google account, or if they will use the same shared one. I'll comment pros/cons of both ways.
• Images to show children's learning.
• Direct feed into the ESOL wiki - I'll make a test home page on the wiki for this.
  

Check the link underneath this post called 'Comments' for this.