Blogging: Promoting Literacy via Web2.0

Tired of struggling to reach out to the digital natives in your classroom? Looking for

ways to create a classroom culture infused with technology? Blogging may be the

answer. This three-day session walks participants through creating a blog and

explores theconcept of blogging. Participants create a lesson to use with their

own students,discover how to use the blog to create teacher and student portfolios,

and learnways to manage and assess blogging. Participants will leave armed with

resourcesto get their students blogging.

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Workshop Blog       

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Why Blog? 

 

• | View | Upload your own
• 8 Ways Blogging Makes Me A Better Teacher 

 

 

 

 

Technorati

 

Research Supporting Blogs:

• Jeff Felix--Research for Edublogging K-12 Teachers

 

About Blogging:

• Blogging Vocabulary: Learn blogging terminology--from tags to permalinks.
• Sue LeBeau's Blogs, Vlogs, Wikis and Podcasts
• Will Richardson's Blogging Resources, Models, Links
• Vicki Davis' recommendedReading List for Bloggers 

 

Sample Educational Blogs:

• Support Blogging: A massive list of educational blogs
• Blog2Learn: Elementary, Middle, and High School blogs
• High Tech Learning:  Scroll to the bottom of the page
• Classroom Blogs 
• Edubloggers

 

Teaching Blogging to Students:

• Blogging: It's Elementary: A Webquest introducing elementary students to blogging 
• Teach students how to comment: How to Comment Like a King (or Queen!) 
• Ten Habits of Bloggers that Win!: An article by Vicki Davis explaining basic blogging practices.
• The Power of a Newbie: Anne Davis explains the importance of sharing your learning, a topic

          we need to teach students--they're often the best teachers!

 

Ideas for Using Blogs with Students:

• 10 Ideas from Edublogs

 

How-To's for Using Edublogs:

• Watch this tutorial video from Edublogs. It walks you through signing up for an account.

 

• Create a CLASS BLOG.
• Create Individual Student Blogs:  Nate Stearns, an English teacher, provides step-by-step instructions for his students

          to create their own blogs. His is a worthy model for managing the set-up of all a teacher's students in

          different class periods and subjects.

• Track comments with CoComments: You leave comments on blogs all over the web but can go to one location to keep track of all your conversations.
• Add widgets.

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