School-Wide Teacher Blogs: Building Relationships through Communication, Collaboration

and Creativity

Liana Iaea Honda(lihonda@ksbe.edu)

Carmen Richardson (castack@ksbe.edu)

hawaii.ksbe.edu/elementary

SLIPo The Bigger Pictureo Building Relationshipso Three Year Plan

The Beginning

• Instructional Leaders as Role Models

• Movers & Shakers

Year One 2009-2010

• Professional Development Opportunitieso Blogging Classeso Teacher Leaderso School Wide Blog

Year Two 2010-2011

All for one and one for all!• Support and PD

o "Tech Experts" o Blogging Partieso Google Siteo Web 2.0o Blogging Rubric

• Bloggerso 12 grade level teacherso 12 "specials"o Counselors

Year Three 2011-2012

AnimotoVimeoTwitterVokiWordleShelfari

Ms. Manlinguis'Blog

Web 2.0 Tools

• Teacher teacher• Teacher ʻohana• Teacher students• Teacher student to global

community

Transformation through Collaboration

Mrs. Ah Hee

Ms. Richardson

I'm lucky I live in...

Global Community

Rebecca‘s Graduation from Scripps College

Fall Break - Change is Constant

Pilina

• For schoolwide initiativeso Leaders must serve as role modelso Change over timeo Teacher support (PD, time)

• For yourselfo Seek

Lessons We Have Learned

Cool Cat Teacher

David Warlick

Science Teacher Blog

Kamehameha Schools Hawai'i Elementary School Blog

Resources from Mrs. Chang

Biggest Lesson of All

Hawaii.ksbe.edu/elementary

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