When Ms. Maricle mentioned taking her reading logs online, I was excited to offer blogging as an option. We decided to use Blogger because we are a Google Apps for Education school district and it's absolutely free. Blogging also offered an excellent opportunity to engage students in practical digital citizenship discussions and practice. Take a look at Ms. Maricle's experience here: You can read Ms. Maricle's students' blogs here. They would love for you to leave comments! You may think that blogging with students only lends itself to the language arts classroom. Writing in any content area is essential, so why not take it online. Check out this post via Edublogger with 100+ Ideas and Prompts for Student Blogging. Ready to get you students blogging? Check out this presentation and here are some quick steps to get you started. After collecting all student's blog links, we compiled them in a Google site called Blogging Cougars so that their peers had easy access to their classmates' blogs. In addition, we had each student add their teacher as an author for safety and content moderation if needed.
Have you blogged with students in the classroom? Tell me about your experience in the comments. Interested in blogging with students for the first time? Let me know your ideas in the comments or shoot me an email. I'd love to help you implement this experience in your classroom.
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