Blogs

Why do we blog with our students?

 * **community interaction enables students to link with other classes, comment on the learning of others and reflect on their own learning**
 * students are writing or creating for a global audience
 * powerful means to promote and publish learning
 * students able to connect with the world in authentic ways
 * authentic learning as connection with global audience is genuine and real
 * students and teachers are exposed to collaborative web 2.0 tools that allow them to work on team projects with students in their own class, school or anywhere in the world. eg: VoiceThread, Webspiration... These tools allow you to use an embed code to add what your students have created to a class or individual blog.

[|Kick start blogging tasks and challenges]

1. Looking at class blogs
Infant Blogs Yr2 blogs Chorlton Park Mrs Wojtera's yr 1 blog Pattersons Pack

2M Gems Queensland Aust Mrs Cassidy's yr 1 blog

Middle Area Blogs Ann's 3/4 blog Reading Response blog

Senior Area Blogs Kane's 5/6 blog

2. Setting up your own class blog.
Purpose is to begin setting up a blog for your own class. Start looking at other class blogs and build up your knowledge of how people use their blogs in their classrooms. Become familiar with web 2.0 tools and think about how they can support your teaching and learning. Go to this website to get a start on some great tools to use in the classroom. Best Ever Embeds for Educational Wikis and Blogs

[|10 Commandments Of Blogging]
Do you have permission for students to publish their work, images, audio and video on the Internet?

3. Adding to your blog
Add photos, voicethreads, animotos... to your blog.