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10 iPhone Photography Tips To Quickly Improve Your Photos. Step 1: Set up your class blog – Teacher Challenges. Welcome to our latest free professional learning series on class and student blogging! This series guides you step by step through the process of class and student blogging. It provides class blog examples so you can check out how they are used by educators. Many of the examples are from primary grades but the same principles apply regardless of student age (including adult learners). Refer our personal blogging series if you want to set up a personal or professional educator’s blog. The activities can be completed at your own pace and in any order! Wherever you’re at – we’ll step you through the tasks designed to increase your skills while providing help to support your learning. The aim of this first activity is to: Help you learn more about what is a blog and why educators use blogs.Help you set up your class blog, customize your settings and change your theme.

What is a blog? One of the biggest challenges educators new to blogging face is understanding the basics of how a blog works. 1. Blogging Lesson Plans – SchoolJournalism.org. ASNE Lesson Plans for Blogging Day OneBlogging Lesson – Day OneBlogging PowerPoint – Day OneBlog Evaluation Day TwoBlogging Lesson – Day TwoBlogging PowerPoint – Day TwoBlog Checklist Other Lessons Blogging is a great way for young journalists to practice writing and to create a web presence for themselves. Blogs are a type of website that many people think of as an online, public diary. Bloggers maintain their website, updating it regularly with original posts or sharing relevant content from other places on the web. News publications will often have their own blog (or sometimes several to cover a range of topics) that staff writers post on. So the question is: What makes a good blog?

Blogging Resources and Lessons There are many tools available for blogging: Blogger is a great resource for beginning journalists who are starting their first blog and offers the Blogger Getting Started Guide. Blogging with Middle Schoolers: Frontloading and First Steps | Heather Wolpert-Gawron. So I just finished introducing blogging to my middle school classes. They are hooked, as each year before them was hooked. I use it as a substitute for Reading Logs, that dreaded love-of-reading killer which causes eye rolls in many a Language Arts class. Rather than simply log the quantity of books, perhaps embellishing with a short summary or bibliographical entry, I have them discuss quality.

The discussions are rich, organic, and run themselves. All I needed to do was have the patience to set it up right. So I’ve pulled together some steps that I’ve been working on for the past couple of years that help introduce students to the art of blogging without neglecting the science of building community and collaboration. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. I have no doubt that there is a more efficient way to frontload blogging in your classroom. Middle schoolers love to talk, so give middle schoolers the opportunity to talk using technology. Blogs Explained by Common Craft. You've seen the word, you've seen the web sites and you may even have one. But have you ever wondered: What's the big deal about blogs? To make sense of blogs, you have to think about the news and who makes it. We'll look at news in the 20th vs. the 21st century to make our point. In the 20th century, the news was produced professionally.

When news happened, reporters wrote the stories and a tiny group of people decided what appeared in a newspaper or broadcast. Professional news was mainstream: general and limited. The 21st century marked the point where news became both professional and personal. As blogs became popular, they created millions of news sources and gave everyone an audience for their own version of news. With a blog...A business owner can share news about his business A mother can share news about her family Or a sport star can share news with fans These people are all "bloggers". How did this happen? Let's say you have a blog about green living and outdoor photography.

Blogs Explained by Common Craft.