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Below are the steps to complete your final blog post.
Samples
- Callie’s blog post with Voicethread
- Rachel’s blog post with Voicethread
- Chloe’s blog post with Voicethread (both written and vocal comments)
- Tanner’s blog post with Voicethread (both written and vocal comments)
- Aaron’s blog post with Voicethread
- Emily’s blog post with Voicethread
- Blake’s blog post with Voicethread
- Ella’s blog post with only written Voicethread
- Anakin’s blog post with Voicethread
- Anthony’s blog post with Voicethread
- Preethi’s blog post and Voicethread
- Maddie’s Blog Post and Voicethread
- Maddie’s Linkedin including Recommendations
- Sam’s Linkedin including Recommendations
Step 1
- Create blog post titled My Final
Step 2
- Create Voicethread account
Step 3
- Learn how to use Voicethread
- Have questions? Check out the Voicethread Support page
Step 4
- Upload evidence of what you did and learned this year
- At least 3 projects
Step 5
- Tell a detailed story of your experience in class this year, using the evidence you uploaded to VoiceThread
- Highlight At least 3 examples of what you did this year
- These can be screenshots from your blog
- For each example verbally:
- Describe the goal of the project
- Explain how you overcame a problem in detail, step-by-step
- Describe at least 1 resource you used to learn from or problem solve with
- Justify why it is a good resource
- 1 to 2 minutes in length for each example is roughly how long the recording will be
- Highlight or draw over elements in the example as you speak
- It’s cool looking and helps the viewer know that you know what you are talking about
- Highlight At least 3 examples of what you did this year
Step 6
- Embed your VoiceThread link into your My Final blog post
- Click this button to get the share option
Step 7
- Make sure a link to your Linkedin.com profile is on the front page of your blog
- VIDEO EXPLANATION: Creating a Links Section in Your Blog
- VIDEO EXPLANATION: Linkedin Profile Settings, Safety and Custom Web Address
- Review Linkedin Resources (If you haven’t made a Linkedin Account before now)
- Watch Linkedin explained in Plain English
- Learn to create an effective profile
- Follow the Steps for creating your profile
- Use your school district email address
- Go to Linkedin.com
- Click Join Today
- Select Student
- Type in Capital High School
- Find Scott Le Duc and join his network
- Le Duc’s Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottleduc
- Mr. Le Duc’s email address is sleduc@osd.wednet.edu
- Fill in the following sections:
- Summary
- Experience
- Education
- Awards
- Skills & Expertise
Step 8
- Write a recommendation in Linkedin
- Include in your small paragraph
- What you liked about working with the other student (be specific)
- EXAMPLES: They were creative, on task, collaborative, supportive, professional, easy to work with, etc.
- Read more tips (pdf)
- Include an example (be specific)
- Be sure to check grammar
- Copy and paste into Word and check spelling and grammar
- What you liked about working with the other student (be specific)
- Be sure to have the student approve your recommendation
- Otherwise it will not show on your profile
- Write a recommendation for someone in our class at Linkedin
- They need to accept the recommendation for it to show up on your profile
- TIP: To find other people linked to a profile, look in the Activity Section
- Toward the top of the page
- Include in your small paragraph
Step 9
- Set your Linkedin profile safe settings.
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