Session+3-+Blogging

What is Blogging? **Blogs in Plain English - video by CommonCraft on TeacherTube**
Blog Basics - excellent article from Teaching Today about blogging with kids, classroom management, risks, etc. Blogging Basics: Creating Student Journals on the Web - another easy short article on getting started, do's and don'ts Blogging? It's Elementary My Dear Watson! - NEA article all about blogging with elementary students

Samples of Classroom and Student Blogs
Edublogs list of class blogs - examples from all subject areas (the edublogs and wordpress hosted ones will open at school; those hosted on Blogger or Blogspot will be filtered at school but you can check them out from home) Class 40Q's blog - very cool student generated content reflecting on what they are learning EPencil - a sixth grade writing workshop blog A Really Different Place - elementary blog that students respond and post to A K-8 School Garden Blog (Orca School) Billings Beta - a middle school tech class blog - very sophisticated student blog

VPAA Blogs:
Thoughts from the Lab Bench - Mrs. Tew's scince blog Mrs. Rewis and Mrs, Harper's Second to None blog Veggie Park - the garden project blog VPAA Media Blog

**Before you begin to blog for your classroom or with students, ask yourself these questions:**
1. Why do I want to blog? 2. What audience do I want to reach and interact with? (in-school only or the world at large) 3. Do I want students to have their own blogs or do I want to have them only respond to my blog? 4. What type of content will I create for the blog? 5. What blog platform will I use? 6. What do I want my students to learn by blogging? 7. How will I introduce blogging to the students? 8. How will I engage parents and what permissions do I need to get before allowing students to blog?

Getting Started
The PPT below gives step-by-step instructions on how to set up an Edublogs blog == [|Blogging for School.ppt]==

Here is a list of resources for helping you get started blogging with students: A Student's Advice to teachers about starting to blog with kids: awesome post by a student who's been there! WebTools4U2Use Wiki - Donna Baumbach's quintessential blogging page - some great how-to and start-up info here. To Blog or to Wiki- a great post about the differences and one teacher's experience Support Blogging Wiki - extensive links to classroom blogs, educational blogs for adults to read, how-to get started resources, and more. Edubloggerworld a Ning about blogging Weblogged

Edublogs - not blocked, but not supported by the LCSD
Edublogs.org - One of many blogging hosts for you to use to start your free first blog.
 * Edublogs help files** - for when you want to do something with your Edublogs blog and don't know how
 * Videos: @http://edublogs.org/videos/ 
 * PDF How-to’s: http://help.edublogs.org/getting- started-with-edublogs/

Sample Resources to use/edit
[|1st grade Blog Permission Slip.doc] [|Blog Permission Slip.doc]