Part of my role as Support Manager for Edublogs and CampusPress involves developing courses for educators.

Our course are free, online and open to any educator who wants to increase their skills.  The series are made up of free professional learning challenges where educators are stepped through weekly tasks that increase their skills while being supported by mentors.

Series 1:  Blogging with Student series

This series is designed for educators who want to use blogs with their students.  It guides you step by step through the process of class and student blogging.

Each step includes links to class blogs being used by educators so you can check out how other educators use their blogs.

The Series consists of:

• Step 1: Set up Class Blog
• Step 2: Setting up pages
• Step 3: Writing your first posts
• Step 4: Teach quality commenting skills
• Step 5: Adding Widgets
• Step 6: Helping parents and students connect
• Step 7: Images, copyright, and creative commons
• Step 8: Cool tools to embed
• Step 9: All about video
• Step 10: Connecting with other classes
• Step 11: Setting up your student blogs

You can enrol anytime using our enrolment form and you’ll receive emails for each step.

Series 2:  Personal Blogging

This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own personal or professional educator blog. Each step provides examples of personal educator blogs so you can check out how they are used by other educators.

The Series consists of:

• Step 1: Setting up your blog
• Step 2: Setting Up Pages
• Step 3: Publish your first posts
• Step 4: Connecting with others
• Step 5: Working with Widgets
• Step 6: Images, copyright and Creative Commons
• Step 7: Cool tools to embed
• Step 8: All about video

Series 3:  Building a PLN (Personal Learning Network)

This series guides you step by step through the process of building your PLN.  Numerous Universities and programs use our PLN series as part of their pre-service teacher training courses.

The Series consists of:

• Step 1: What is a PLN?
• Step 2: Using Twitter to Build Your PLN
• Step 3: Participate in Twitter Chats
• Step 4: Making Time To Build Your PLN
• Step 5: Using Blogs as Part of Your PLN
• Step 6: Using Curation tools as part of your PLN
• Step 7: Using Diigo as part of your PLN
• Step 8: Webinars – an extra dimension for your PLN
• Step 9 Back to the Classroom! (of 2.0)
• Step 10: Making Connections