How to Set up a Blog in Blogger for Classroom Use. Digital Discussion: Take Your Class to the Internet. How to set up a blog in your classroom.
Credit: Mystic Aquarium This is a multipart article. Go to the beginning. Teacher's Visual Guide to Setting up A Classroom Blog. If you think Blogger is where you want to host your classroom blog, here is a step by step guide on how to do it. 1- First you need to have a Google account, if you have a Gmail account then that means you already have one.
Head over to www.blogger.com and log in. Once logged in ,you will land on a page that resembles the one in the screenshot, click on " New Blog " 2 Provide a title for your blog, then type in the address you want to use as URL, you need to keep trying till you find the one available. Next, pick up a template from gallery then click on " create blog" see snapshot below. 3- Now your new blog will appear in your blogger page as is shown in the snapshot below. Five Steps to Starting a Class Blog. Blogging Resources for Classroom Teachers. Posted by Bill Ferriter on Monday, 09/02/2013 I've spent the better part of the past weekend working up a presentation on how to incorporate blogging into the classroom and thought y'all might find some of the resources that I plan to share helpful.
Blogging Ideas and Examples to Explore Looking for examples of how blogging is being used by classroom teachers and/or suggestions about how to make classroom blogging doable? These resources will help. Annotated List of Classroom Blogs to Explore - For many teachers, imagining the role that blogging can play in their instruction is difficult simply because they haven’t seen enough samples of what classroom blogs look like in action. Pernille Ripp's Classroom Blogging Resources - One of the most articulate advocates for classroom blogging is Pernille Ripp -- a fifth grade teacher in Madison, Wisconsin. This bit -- written for the Smartblogs Education site -- describes the hows-and-whys behind blogging in the primary grades.
Student blogs and student voice – Redefining my role: Teacher as student. Wednesday night has become my favorite night of the week. Yes, better than Friday night or Saturday night. Because Wednesday night is when my Inbox fills up with the latest batch of blog posts from my 5th grade students. Giving all of my students their own blog this year has been incredible.
I require that my students post at least once a week, due on Thursday so we can edit and post them by Friday. (Though many students post 2 or 3 entries each week.) I have tried to emphasize that these are their blogs, and they can therefore write about whatever they would like. And each post not only has a unique topic, but a unique student voice as well. This is what I love about the blogs, but also what I sometimes struggle with. What is authentic “student voice”? Setting up individual student blogs using google apps (Part 2) « Teaching the Teacher. Blogger FTW!
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A closer look at blogging in education. Making Connections with Blogging Authentic Learning for Today’s Classrooms By Lisa Parisi and Brian Crosby. Create and Manage Student Blogs in 5 Simple Steps. We’re seeing increasing numbers of educators use blogs as digital student portfolios, where students showcase their work and share their learning, throughout their school life. Why? Studies have found that the effort of communicating to someone else forces you to pay more attention and learn more (Clive Thomspon).When students were asked to write for a real audience in another country, their essays had better organization and content than when they were writing for their teacher (Clive Thomspon).Digital student portfolios can be used for application to colleges, Universities or for applying for jobs.We all have increased motivation when we feel personal ownership.
Best Student Blogs 2013 - Edublog Awards ##eddies13. 4 Tips To Help Students Start Blogging. “Ms.
Clark, I can’t believe it! Someone from Argentina and New Zealand just read my blog!” This kind of wide-eyed excitement is why I have been blogging with my students for nearly 10 years. With the infusion of technology in most classrooms, many teachers are finding blogs a great way to galvanize and encourage purposeful writing and then to quickly publish student work. Should my class blog, tweet, Google App, Moodle, Desire2Learn, or Edmodo? Arrghhh!!! Do you want to use social media, web 2.0 tools, and/or a learning management system for your class or course program?
Do you feel overwhelmed with the absurd amount of choice, and those ‘techie’ annoying types that make you feel like a Super Noob? I’m hoping this post can help you out. Every year around this time I reflect on the tools and spaces we’ve been using throughout the year. Will we use them again? Were they effective? Device agnostic: I have a multi-device environment in which mobile dominates. Simple, elegant, minimalist design: ‘Nuff said. Engineering: It’s fast, and it works. Used by people outside of education: This isn’t because I have some bizarre inferiority complex with apps and LMSs, feeling like it’s illegitimate if someone else doesn’t use it. Easy privacy settings: Because if it’s complex, then it can’t be trusted, especially for school. I’ve created the matrix below to help you should you need it. Click here for the native Google document.