Why get students blogging?

 If you are considering starting blogging or just want to find out more visit:Teacher Challenge (Connecting teachers through free professional learning) which is supported by Edublogs.

Blog with students – Visit these Week 1

At the site above you can locate links to help you :

Blogging With Students

Activity 1 - Set up class blog
Activity 2 - Rules and Guidelines
Activity 3 - Commenting

Student Blogging Activity 1 (Beginner): Setting Up Your Class Blog

Student Blogging Activity 2 (Beginner): Setting Up Rules & Guidelines

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Student Blogging Activity 3 (Beginner) – Teaching Quality Commenting

Are you still unsure? -not convinced that blogging is a good idea yet? Try viewing this post from Kathleen:

A Reflection on the Benefits of Classroom Blogging

If you are ready to have a go consider these first: Five Steps to Starting a class blog

Five Steps to Starting a Class Blog

Once you have started these tips may help you manage your blogging well: Tips for students and teachers    

The Do's and Don'ts of blogging may well be of assistance to you also.

NSW DET teachers now have access to a free safe blogging platform called blogED. You will find many tips and much support material in the portal. Your Principal needs to apply for your school to be able to use blogED. 

Check out  blogED Prezi  Engaging Learners with blogED  by  Barbara Schaffer produced July 2010

You could also check out: BlogED by craig snudden on Prezi

Mrs Ratcliffe has written some supportive posts to help NSW DET teachers implement blogED and blogging: 

What is a blog?

How to blog in NSW Schools

 BlogED embeddable sites

Kid friendly howto for embedding in BlogED.

If you would like to see what others have done already on blogED you can search @: site:.www.det.nsw.edu.au/blog/ - Google Search

Happy blogging!

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