Blogs can be used in a variety of ways. Depending on the needs in your classroom, blogging can be a great and unique way to showcase writing. Setting up a blog can be as creative as you want. The student has total creative access to the blog and could make it their own using backgrounds, colors, fonts, images, widgets, plug-ins, and files. My suggestion is to use Blogger - you can sign in with a Google Account, and has a really use-friendly interface. It is possible to set up a classroom blog that is utilized by all students in a class as a forum to write where you the teacher would have the creative control. Any of these options works but again, it depends on your audience or what is your purpose for blogging. I'm also going to encourage you to use a hit counter or clustr map to track the blog readers.
Uses of Blogs in Classrooms
- Writing - practice, creativity, usage, skill-building, journals, reflections, entertainment
- Reading and RSS feeds - blogs your class wants to follow, read any updates at beginning or end of class - see page on RSS
- Collaborating - classroom blog projects, commenting, participating in other students' writing ideas, sharing, showcase writing
- Class Scribes - a different student each day writing a brief summary of class happenings daily
What is a blog? Why blog?
My Professional Blog: The Edification of Priscilla
Blogging
Blogs can be used in a variety of ways. Depending on the needs in your classroom, blogging can be a great and unique way to showcase writing. Setting up a blog can be as creative as you want. The student has total creative access to the blog and could make it their own using backgrounds, colors, fonts, images, widgets, plug-ins, and files. My suggestion is to use Blogger - you can sign in with a Google Account, and has a really use-friendly interface. It is possible to set up a classroom blog that is utilized by all students in a class as a forum to write where you the teacher would have the creative control. Any of these options works but again, it depends on your audience or what is your purpose for blogging. I'm also going to encourage you to use a hit counter or clustr map to track the blog readers.
Uses of Blogs in Classrooms
- Writing - practice, creativity, usage, skill-building, journals, reflections, entertainment
- Reading and RSS feeds - blogs your class wants to follow, read any updates at beginning or end of class - see page on RSS
- Collaborating - classroom blog projects, commenting, participating in other students' writing ideas, sharing, showcase writing
- Class Scribes - a different student each day writing a brief summary of class happenings daily
What is a blog? Why blog?
My Professional Blog: The Edification of Priscilla
http://fjeldstrom.blogspot.com