This is Jess McCulloch – Covering It Live!

Posted on May 18, 2008 
Filed under Blogs & Blogging, live blogging




As part of the weekly Oz NZ Educators meeting, I showed everyone what live blogging was about. You can hear me giving a bit of an introduction to it here:

Intro to Cover It Live

and see me give short intro here:

This video was taken by Joe Dale who was part of the Flash Meeting that we held.

Live blogging with CoverItLive lets you create a chatroom like atmosphere in a post on your blog. You can moderate all comments which makes it a very safe place for students to interact. The host of the blog can also play audio and video and add images for the audience to see. You can see our actual session in my last post. Here is a snap shot of what using CoverItLive looks like for the host. The blog post is in the middle (I took this shot when I was showing a video), the comments from readers com up on the right hand side and the media bar and all other tools (like setting up voting polls) are on the left hand side.

libveblogscreenshot

I have used CoverItLive with my Year 11 class a couple of times. My students really enjoyed it. We tried it once at school and once in the evening. Click here and here to read the live blog posts that we held.

I’m really keen to use CoverItLive and other tools that help my students to take their Chinese lessons outside the classroom. One of the frustrations of timetabling is that I have very little time with my students at any given year level and then when a sports day comes along, or I’m out for a PD or there are days off in general, lots of classes get missed. This is one way of holding class outside class hours. I’ve also held a couple of classes with my Year 11s on MSN Messenger which has worked really well. More on that later!

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