Getting The Most Out Of Student Blogging Assignments And Instructional Blogging. Examining Instructional Blogging Efforts and Lessons Learned.
Guest Post by Elaine Hirsch. As instructional blogging made its way into classrooms, student feedback has helped teachers structure methods to use blogs effectively, from elementary classrooms to online PhD programs. Three Purposes for Classroom Blogs. One of the most common requests for workshops that I receive is to help teachers create and utilize blogs in their classrooms.
Over the last few years I've run blogging workshops many times and each time the workshop is a little different and hopefully a little better than the last. This year I've run my blogging workshop more frequently than ever and have now arrived at what I think is a simple, but strong framework for introducing teachers to classroom blogging. I now introduce workshop participants to classroom blogging by outlining three fundamental purposes of blogging. Those purposes are distributing, discussing, and demonstrating. What follows is a brief break-down of each of these purposes. 14 Steps to Meaningful Student Blogging.