Blogging

Description: Blogging in the classroom allows students to develop and expand on the 21st Century Skills of digital literacy and effective communication while exploring and learning course content. Students will write, collaborate, and revise, as well as track their progress throughout an overall learning experience. Teachers will learn how to create and facilitate an active classroom blog and/or student blogs.21st Century Skills AddressedCommunicationEvaluation
 * Blogging - Writing for Today's Digital Citizen**

A Very Brief Agenda Blogging 

1. Open a blank word document. 2. Video -[|Blogging In Plain English] 3. Blogging Sites - let's see what's not blocked today
 * Introduction**
 * Turn off your screen.
 * Write about your day (today)
 * Write about some things that are troublesome for you as an educator (NOT STUDENTS)
 * Choose your top pet peeve share it in the discussion tab at the top of this page.
 * Read some of the other peeves of the day...comment if you would like.
 * [|www.kidblog.org]
 * [|http://Edublogs.org]
 * [|http://Blogger.com]
 * [|http://wordpress.com]
 * [|__http://www.21classes.com/__]
 * Blog page on Schoolwires website

1. Create for the world, not just for teacher 2. Organize their learning and reflect on what you've learned 3. Blogging Rules to Remember 4. Skill that must be learned by students - as with all tech tools/ideas you want to have a model for your students before you turn them loose - privacy, citizenship, respect, language, etc 5. Remember...It's not about the tech, it's about learning powered by technology
 * Purposes and Uses**

**Models for Blogging** 1. Co-authored Class Blog - one account represents an entire class 2. Group Blogs/Project Blogs - one account represents a group of students 3. Individual Student Blogs 4. Teacher Blogs
 * Demonstration: Wiki Page Blog
 * Best used for live-blogging during class
 * Project Blog Examples - AP Stat Project Blog 1, AP Stat Project Blog 2
 * Best used when students are working on a long-term project
 * Most versatile, most difficult to manage
 * Best used to manage student portfolios of work
 * Learning logs - instead of an exit ticket, go home and write/reflect on what you learned in class today
 * Example (5th Graders) - 2017 Purple
 * Digital Citizenship and Safety
 * Privacy - naming conventions
 * No images
 * Approval of comments by a moderator
 * Etiquette for comments
 * Lesson ideas/plans
 * Teacher post, student comment on it -
 * [|sample AP World History blog]
 * C. Felder's Catcher Blog
 * Provide a multitude of links on a topic to students/educators
 * An Awesome Example(Larry Ferlazzo)
 * Jason's Teacher Blog 6th grade teacher blogs
 * [|Parent blogging letter.docx]

**Playtime** Still not sold on why to blog in the classroom, check out this link with reasons for and do's and don'ts Talk about how you want to use blogging in your classroom with some other folks in the room Set up a blog and start playing with it!