Blogging

 

 

 

 

About Blogging

Support Blogging

Using Blogs to support authentic learning in the classroom - a immense collection of resources for those educators wishing to learn more about blogging for themselves and/or their students. This collection includes links on the following:

• Educational Rationale for and Pedagogy of Blogging
• Student Safety and Responsible Blogging
• Evaluating Blogs - Rubrics
• Classroom-created Blogs/Student-created Blogs
  
• Blog Add-ins/Widgets - Items that can be added to student blogs

Go Ahead and Blog; The Experts Would Approve: Blogging technology allows people to become active participants in the Web and create interesting and functional sites rather than passively engaging in other people's information.

Blog2Learn an extensive wiki collection of resources, articles and professional development activities. From Anne, "I have found that blogs help us move away from thinking of writing as a 5 paragraph essay or a set of steps to move students through. Blogs give us an avenue to teach writing (blogging) as a cluster of complex thinking and writing behaviors that provide ownership to the student and the possibility of getting a multitude of responses from others". The page on significant comments will be of particular use to teachers who have started blogging with their students but want to encourage them to make well articulated, thoughtful comments.

Here’s My First Five Tips For Writing Better Blog Posts — What Are Yours? This blog post emphasis that blogging is not just about writing words but about holding conversations. The author suggest five ways to write great blog posts and creating and participating in meaningful online conversatons.

 

Blogging Platforms

• Edublogs
  • How to set up a class blog on Edublogs or Learner Blogs
  • Students as contributors on Edublogs: The Quick and Easy Way - learn how to use the power of linked-in gmail accounts to create a short cut for making individual contributing authors in Edublogs.
  • The Edublogger Blog - a great place for tips about using Edublogs including embedding video and subscribing to blogs with rss.
• ClassBlogmeister
  • How to set up a classroom blog using Class Blogmeister: Initial Setup - step-by-step instructions from Vicki Davis
• WordPress
• Blogger

Evaluating Blogs from David Warlick

Assessing Blog Posts from Will Richardson