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

• http://www.hwyblogs.com/hiw-blog-parts.php
• http://www.perrotlibrary.org/whatisablog.htm

 

 

Blogging in Class

•  7 Things You Should Know About Blogs (Courtesy of www.educause.edu)
• Blogging Techniques for the K-12 Classroom
• What is an EduBlog?
• NY Times Article about Weblogs by Jeffrey Selingo, August 2004
• Ways to Use Blogs in Class a great site with an overview of blogging in education
• http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/blog/openingdoorsblog.cfm- click on "Check out examples" to see examples at many grade levels

 

List of Educational Blogs

• Edublog List- Organized by Author/Subject

          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!

•  Top 100 Educational Blogs - more focused on teachers blogging about teaching, rather than examples of teachers using blogs with students 

 

Literature Response Blogs

• http://sarahplainandtall.blogspot.com/

 

Sample Blogging Activities

• http://edtechtheresa.edublogs.org/

• http://ideaexchange.edublogs.org/page/2/

 

Blog with an Author

• http://www.jlpanagopoulos.com/  -This site takes some navigating, but by clicking on the blog links, I was able to access the blogs she used with students.
• http://weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bees/discuss/msgReader$217?mode=topic&y=2002&m=9&d=27 On this section of a blog, students in a high school English class sent questions to Sue Monk Kidd while reading The Secret Life of Bees, and she she responded.

 

Student Blog Examples

 

•  http://jhh.blogs.com/blogwrite/

• http://dowell.typepad.com/harriet_tubman/

 

First Grade Blogs 

• http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337
• http://sarahpuglisi.wordpress.com/

 

Second Grade Blogs

• Still looking!

 

Third Grade Blogs

•  http://schweers.wordpress.com/2007/05/

 

Fourth Grade Blogs

• http://tufsdblogs.org/ccristella/
• http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=8564&new_display_count=10
   

Fifth Grade Blogs

• http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=101541
• http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=3528
• http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=59644
  • This one has calendars built in!

 

Middle School Blogs

• http://tlight.edublogs.org/category/middle-school-news-and-discussion/
• http://mrsalbaneses.edublogs.org/
• http://pbogush.edublogs.org/

 

High School Blogs

• http://millersenglish10.blogspot.com/
• http://www.ahistoryteacher.com/wh/?p=191

 

 

 

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Examples of Educators Blogging

 

Principal's Blog for a School

• http://lewiselementary.org/

 

 

 

Information for Parents

• http://lewiselementary.org/notes/?m=200705 
   
   
   

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/

 

 

Teacher Blog

http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/mahlness/

 

 

 

Professional Communities Blogs

Teachers Love Smartboards Blog

http://www.smartboards.typepad.com/

 

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 Setting up Your Blog

 

 

 Things to Consider

• http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/blog/openingdoorsblog.cfm
• http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/03/ten-habits-of-bloggers-that-win.html

 

 Example of Blog Rules

• http://www.budtheteacher.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blogging_Rules
• http://mrsbizzell.wordpress.com/blog-rules/
• http://schweers.wordpress.com/blog-rules/

• Blogging Contract

 

Encouraging Meaningful Comments

• http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-comment-like-king-or-queen.html

 

 Blog Hosting Options

• http://edublogs.org/  -  This is the one I have used most extensively, and is well designed for a school setting
• http://www.blogger.com/home  - Relatively easy to use, can be set up to be teacher/school friendly

            Movie on Using Blogger

• http://classblogmeister.com/  - created by David Warlick, sort of the guru of Web 2.0 in the classroom; I haven't used it and it appears you need to contact him to create an account; but I have seen many blogs using this.

 

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Other Blogging Bits

 

Blogging Rules and Regulations FAQs- from the Electronic Frontier Foundation