Blogging in the Classroom

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Comment by Alyssa Jade Kent on April 11, 2013 at 11:45

I am a preservice teacher and I am doing an assignment on ICT in the classroom, I was wondering if you think that using tumblr would be appropriate. Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Thank you

Comment by Marie Coppolaro on February 20, 2011 at 12:07

I have been using class blogs for a while and other teachers are starting to gain interest.  I have up until now used Global Teacher in my classes but since the change to Global2 it means students can't create Global2 blogs unless in Victoria. So I'm thinking of creating my next class blog in Edublogs so the students can then create their own.  I'm interested to hear from other edublog users since my only experience is with Global2 (alias Global teacher/student).

Comment by Anne Mirtschin on February 16, 2011 at 17:24

Join the current edublogs challenge on Class Blogs - Here is the first challenge:-

1. Beginners
2. Advanced

Complete them all, complete some, but these challenges help empower blogging for both beginners and experienced bloggers.

The recent "Kick Start Your Blog" challenges were a great success and much can be learnt from those who participated as well as the actual challenges. You can still complete these challenges. (See the right hand side bar for beginners and advanced challenges)

Comment by Anne Mirtschin on January 27, 2011 at 21:27

Hi Corey Thanks for sharing your blog and your aspirations for 2011. Blogging is such an important tool in the 21st century. There is also a Kick Start Your Blog Challenge on through edublogs at the moment. You might be interested in looking through some of the challenges as there are great tutorials, tips and hints.

Comment by Cory S on January 27, 2011 at 21:05

As a new blogger I have really enjoyed reading this thread/group. I plan to use a blog in my class this year as a place to share our great work and have students interact with the world wide web. I have also just started a blog that i hope to be beneficial for the primary classroom teacher which has different resources/tools that could hopefully be used in your classroom. It's only in its early stages and as a new blogger i am unsure as to if it will or is beneficial to other teachers (which is my aim). Would love for you to have a look and share with others if you feel it may be of some assistance.

Cheers

primaryclassroom.globalteacher.org.au

Comment by Anne Mirtschin on May 6, 2010 at 22:26

Well done, Richard. Technology has that wonderful ability to connect us at any time, any place and students love to use it. Are you able to copy what you have written as the comment here and put it into a blog post on your page on the ning, as I think there would be others who would learn from it and enjoy reading it.
If you go to your page, there is a link on the lefthand side that says blog posts, click on that and from that next page you should see a link to add a new blog post. Paste this comment in there and save. It will then feature on the front page of the ning. Give it a nifty heading!

Comment by Richard Opie on May 6, 2010 at 21:22

I am not sure where to place this comment but I will start here. I was home sick earlier this week so, as our Years 9 and 10s have just received their lap tops, I decided to place my extras on my class blogs. One entry was a totally new assignment. During the day I took an email request, allowed two comments to be added to the blogs etc.

I have been on about schools reaching out to disengaged students using this technology - my simple experience shows that it can work - I conducted my classes from home.

I wonder if English and History teachers are familiar with the technology and would appreciate some elluminate PDs on this technology.

I also use Survey Monkey to test students and to provide discussion points at beginning of a class.

Comment by Anne Mirtschin on March 10, 2010 at 17:18

Hi Carole
As I am not an English teacher, I do encourage students to post. There will always be typos and English spelling mistakes, so I tolerate that and hope that over time, the students spelling and expression will improve with the extra reading and writing. There is also a spell checker button in edublogs, globalstudent and wordpress toolbar. Students quite like using that and should be encouraged to do so. However, as for me, I would rather they write and enjoy writing than having everything spelt perfectly. What do others think?

Comment by Carole Bird on March 10, 2010 at 14:56

Thanks Anne for the timely hints on how to encourage my bloggers. The blogging challenge has been a real stimulus for them - they just love collected red dots on the clustermap! They don't mind putting an odd 'well done' on someone else's blog either. But they have gone all shy when correct spelling and more thought is called for. I've tried having them create in Word to use spell check, then paste which has helped a bit.
This week I'll have a go at introducing some ideas from the Geeky Momma blog - plenty of ideas there!
Your help is much appreciated.

Comment by Anne Mirtschin on March 8, 2010 at 10:49

Hi @Carole Bird. Blogging can go through cycles and I have been doing it with classes for nearly three years now. However, I was horrified when one of my best and persistent bloggers entered year 7 and told me "I dont do blogging anymore!". To stop blogging becoming boring, it is great to share a common blog post with another school around the world eg What do you do after school? What is your favourite possession? and all students answer the same prompt, writing a blog post and then adding it as a comment to the person's post who posed the question, so they all show up there. It is important to get an audience for them - teachers in your school, other schools, students, parents etc as comments can be the motivating factor. I also teach a lot of other tools that can be added to their blogs to give variety and suit all learning styles eg add a poll eg poll daddy, mindmapping eg bubblus gives code to add to the blog post, how to add music, podcasts, digital movies etc, so that they are proud of their work. Here is a blog post from a Geeky Momma's blog that I have just come across with some ideas for blog posts, which may be of help.
I also use blog posts as reflective tools and students are assessed on their blogs as part of their mid year and final year assessment. Hope this helps as I am still passionate about blogging and here is yet another example of an amazing outcome - Blogs give authentic audience for student work

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