Primary Pad · Superfunky Collaborative Writing For Schools. How to set up a classroom blog: 10 Essential Steps | The official blog of PikiFriends. Running a blog with your students is about as far from a traditional teaching method as you can get, and chances are nobody taught you how to do it. That’s why teachers who blog with students are usually those nonconformists types, radicals, free spirits, taking paths less traveled…well, not so much anymore.
It’s actually become quite popular, but it certainly hasn’t hit mainstream levels, partly because it’s not as simple as using a chalkboard and textbook. It doesn’t have to be so hard. After several years of blogging with students (mostly using PikiFriends), I’ve come up with a successful method which I hope others will find helpful. What you do before you start blogging is arguably the most important time of all. 1) Choose an appropriate blogging platform for your situation. 2) Understand why and how you’ll use it in your class. 3) Understand the features you and your students will need to use. 4) Set up your student accounts. 5) Clear all of this with your boss and the tech guy.
The Power of Project-Based Writing in the Classroom. As some of my readers may know, I had an awakening of sorts this past summer: Instead, I decided, that everything I did this school year would have some connection to the world outside of school. The plan: to immerse my lessons and my classroom assessments in authenticity. And test scores be damned. OK, so maybe I wasn't confident. Nevertheless, I went ahead with my plans and devised units based on project-based writing. Now, I'm lucky. However, my luck is not the norm.
But in this day and age, with textbook adoptions on hold, and the era of democratization of information upon us, this economic era of cuts can be an opportunity. Believing the Publicity But that's not to say that all teachers are eager to start. Taking what I know about PBL, I spun the concept for a writing focus. We then quickly moved into our next unit, this one focusing on a blend of Advocacy and Memoir similar to those performed for TED. Proof in the Data Yet I heard from some colleagues that I was taking a risk. The Lost Art of Letter Writing.