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Blogging in the Classroom

What is blogging?

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For a written definition of a blog, click here

Why blog in your classroom?

Blogging and the Standards

Additional Blogging terms you may want to know

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Our first blogging experience...

__ Sample Blogs __

ELA: Moritz's 9th Honors Blog ELA: Two Writing Teachers ELA: Young Adult Novels Social Studies: Teaching History Matters Social Studies: Niagara Wheatfield High School Art: The Art Classroom Art: Art Education

I couldn't find any Business blogs...you can be the first!!

You can do a search for blogs on your own using Technorati or Google Blog Search

Here's a conversation about Blogging from Classroom 2.0 Here's an interesting article on blogging in the elementary school Here's another...Digital Discussions

Some ideas for using a blog in your classroom Tools for use in the blogging classroom: 50 Useful Blogging Tools for Teachers

Blogging Activity #2

Rubrics

As we all know, it's important to hold students accountable for the work we ask them to do. Without accountability, the students don't see the value in an assignment and they either won't complete, or will do sub-standard work just to get it done. Below you find some samples of online rubrics you can use and adapt for your classroom.

Blog Reflection Rubric 5413 Blog Rubric Blog Criteria Rubistar

Everyone's Favorite Guy...

Bloom's Taxonomy





Why are you doing THAT?! Planning ahead...

It's important to make sure you have a sound, pedagogical reason for blogging. The form below is meant to act as a guide to help you create plans so if someone asks what value you see in blogging with your kids you can say, with confidence, "Look at this!"

iNACOL Teaching Standards

Blog Creation Sites These are only some of the sites available for blogging in the classroom. You can certainly find more but I wanted to give you a sampling of what's out there.


 * Kidblog.org This is the site we've been working with all day.
 * Wordpress.com This is a sample page I put up: @http://gflowers1.wordpress.com/
 * edublogs.org This is another sample page I put up: http://gregflowers.edublogs.org
 * 21 Classes is another site you can use, but they only allow a limited number of users per class.

Here's an interesting resource: 5 Don'ts of Blogging

Here are some Blogging Do's Best Bets with Blogging Taken from: @http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial037print.shtml

A parting thought...

“In times of change the learners will inherit the earth, while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. ” –Eric Hoffer