Blogging


 * Shannon Mitchell

Blogging : Jen **** J ** tiny url - take a long url and makes it shorter and easier for the students to remember

classblogmeister

Even K is blogging--- she starts in January

Can add a new class and keep old classes so students can keep using it

Send something home with student so parents know how to blog and also so students know how to blog from home

Add to blog -animated text boxes -pictures -slideshows Videos Podcasts Widgets Rockyou.com Glitterfy.com Voki.com - this is for age 13+ Fodey.com Blabberize.com Metaatem.net/words Picasa.google.com Flickr.com Photopeach.com Rockyou.com Slide.com Smilebox.com
 * __ All things to add to your blog  __**

Teachertube.com Voicethread.com Yackpack.com Animoto.com

Widgetbox.com Myflashfetich.com Weather.ibegin.com/widget/

kids have a password to get in… can make it all the same for all students **stuff comes through teacher and then posted on your site** STARTING TO TAKE THE PLACE OF A NEWSLETTER Student Blogs
 * can password protect anything that you want**
 * COULD USE THIS OR A WIKI AS THE NEWSLETTER WITH UPDATED INFO**

Give students prompts to write about -in math post a problem and then have the students write about how they would solve a problem

If don’t want to show student picture have them create an avatar with a kidpix picture and a name to go with it (or could do with number) or have them draw a picture and take a picture of it to post…

If use numbers then need to change the password every year

Go over safety with them

Have students sign an internet safety form with teacher and parent at the beginning of the year

Have students post things that they have already published like a poem ** Get Jen’s internet safety contract from her I like how classblogmeister has a main spot for the teacher but then also has a spot for all the students to have their own area. Something to try next year EVERYTHING THE STUDENT DOES GETS APPROVED BY THE TEACHER

Have a computer mom that comes to the lab with you or have a parent go into your e-mail and have them approve a bunch in a row if it was just a time when you were in the lab and all the students were posting at once

Constantly send parents e-mails when Blog is updated so that they can go one and look at things and blog

Could collaborate and comment with other grade levels in the district or other areas (work with Jen, Matt, Jamie, etc…)

Have kids put up small video about how to do different topics of math or other subjects that they can look at home to help them with homework--- especially with big and new concepts

Kindergarten Blog

BLOGGING AS PART OF WRITING WORKSHOP--- MAYBE DO IT AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH WRITING WORKSHOP SESSION

OR DO BLOG AT BEGINNING OF EACH DAY

Students don’t have to publish something but they can go back to something and finish it another session when they log in

Can easily gain asses

NEED TO HOLD STUDENTS ACCOUNTLY TO SAME STANDARDS AS WHEN WRITING—NEED TO HAVE CAPITALS, PERIODS, WORD WALL WORDS SPELLED CORRECTLY

Can sometimes scan in student written work or pictures and put that on their blog

Students could upload their own pictures to their blog to share something with their friends and class

By week 3 in 2nd grade on and working

Students will get to the point where they are excited to put something on the blog and share it with the authentic audience

Can see student progress with writing over time- GREAT ASSESSMENT

Differentiation

For K - practice ABC - write some words that you know

Upload pictures as a prompt--- like a picture of a party, or video of a field trip

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