Beginner Blogging
Click here to go to the handout for this class.
Click here to go to the Build a Blog handout (with the password and login keeper.)
What IS a Blog?
Watch a video- Blogs in Plain English from CommonCraft (www.commoncraft.com)
Parts of a Blog
Blogging in Class
List of Educational Blogs
Be sure to check out the sections with Principal and Administrator blogs, as well as classroom blogs. I've listed a few below, but there are TONS!
Literature Response Blogs
Blog with an Author
Student Blog Examples
First Grade Blogs
Second Grade Blogs
Third Grade Blogs
Fourth Grade Blogs
Fifth Grade Blogs
Middle School Blogs
High School Blogs
Examples of Educators Blogging
Principal's Blog for a School
Information for Parents
Blogged Newsletters
http://dianeteaching.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.canby.k12.or.us/parkerj/category/Parent%20Communication
https://webapps.saugus.k12.ca.us/newsletters/_weblog/everyone.php
http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337
http://mrscowansclass.blogspot.com/
http://mrsrsroom.blogspot.com/
http://schimelnews.blogspot.com/
http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/mahlness/
Teachers Love Smartboards Blog
http://www.smartboards.typepad.com/
Setting up Your Blog
Things to Consider
Example of Blog Rules
Blog Hosting Options
Movie on Using Blogger
Blogging Rules and Regulations FAQs- from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
RSS in Plain English- from CommonCraft.com