Blogging Rubric. Step 5 – Add Students To Your Class Blog So They Can Write Posts. We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging. This step is to add your students as users to your class blog so they can write posts on it. Why Add Students As Users To Class Blogs? Normally when a class blog is initially set up you’ll be responsible for writing posts, and the students respond by writing comments. This gives you time to increase your skills while gradually introducing your students to blogging and educating them on appropriate online behaviour. However, ultimately you’ll need to make decisions: Do you want students to write posts on the class blog? Do you want them to have their own student blog?
Factors you need to consider include student’s age, time and motivation. As student’s age increases you are more likely to want them to write posts on the class blog or their own blog (i.e. as a general rule Kindergarten and Grade 1 students write comments only). Ownership and Motivation Students are no different from adults. Time Involved. Getting Students Started with Edublogs. Student Blogging Activity 7 (Beginner): Set up your student blogs. Class blogs are an excellent starting point.
But the most incredible outcomes are observed when students are progressed onto their own individual blogs. Why? Human nature! As individuals we’re all driven by personal ownership; class blogs have less sense of ownership than an individual blog. In this seventh activity you will: Learn about the recommended approach to setting up individual Student BlogsGain tips for creating student blogsLearn how to create student blogs using the Blog & User Creator – Edublogs Pro/Campus users onlyLearn how to create student blogs using the Edublogs Signup page – free Edublogs users onlyComplete the extension activity (if you have time).
Step 1: Recommended Approach to Setting up Student Blogs As highlighted in Student Blogging Activity 5 (Beginner): Add Students To Your Class Blog So They Can Write Posts the best approach to student blogging is to take it slowly. Benefits of this approach include: Write comments on class blogs Write posts on the class blog 1. 2. How to Create Successful Student Blogging - Taking it to A Deeper Level. 2010 7th Grade Blogging Rules. Notes From McTeach: Learning to Blog Using Paper. That's right...you heard me! And it's one of my favorite activities all year long. Paper Blogs. I use them to introduce my seventh graders to the idea of blogging and, more importantly, commenting. Let me just be clear right from the beginning.
This was not my original idea! We also had to decorate our new blogs so they might reflect our own personality. I didn't require that their paper blogs actually look like blogs (we use Google Sites, in case you were wondering), but several of my students chose to be tech-creative. Of course, I'm getting ahead of myself a bit. After we were done writing and decorating our blogs in our blogging workshop, it was time to read some blogs. As you probably know, teachers are just great big kids at heart. Before I continue with my take on the lesson, let me share with you the original lesson developed by Leonard Low and shared with us at our workshop: The McTeach Version Step One Thank you. Step Two Step Three The next day we start creating! "Yes! "Yes!