Blogging and Journaling
“A blog is in many ways a continuing conversation.” - Andrew Sullivan
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Motivate students to continue the learning and reflecting at home through blogging. Set-up a class blog to showcase student work or get students to reflect in their own blogs. Below is a presentation and resources to get you started!
Tips and Resources
Blogging Platforms:
Refer to these tutorials for the various platforms:
More Resources
- Edublogs is a safe blogging platform for students.
- Blogger: https://www.blogger.com/home
- Worpress: https://wordpress.com/
- Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/
- Weebly: http://www.weebly.com/
Refer to these tutorials for the various platforms:
- Blogger: Getting started
- Wordpress: Support
- Edublogs: Help
- Tumblr: Help
- Weebly: Help center
More Resources
- Quadblogging is a way to blog with classes worldwide.
- Student Blogging Challenge
- The Comment 4 Kids Project by Will Chamberlain- How to get comments for your student blogs.
- Learning How to Comment video by students.
- Bring the World In: Blogging with Your Students (presentation by Greta)
- Learning to Blog Using Paper- Great lesson for students to learn to blog on paper 1st.
- Setting Up Student Blogs
- Getting Parents Involved in Blogging by Kathleen McGeady