Blogging: Promoting Literacy via Web2.0

Reflect on Your Learning

Model Blogging Projects

• Book Collaboration
• Science Investigation
• Science Project
• Portfolios
• Group Analysis of Text
• Current Events

Quick Start

Get started now! Learn how to create a blog at WordPress.com.      

WordPress Tutorial

WordPress FAQ: Find tuturials for a specific task. 

Why Blog? 

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8 Ways Blogging Makes Me A Better Teacher 

Research Supporting Blogs:

• Jeff Felix--Research for Edublogging K-12 Teachers

About Blogging:

• Blogging Vocabulary: Learn blogging terminology--from tags to permalinks.
• Sue LeBeau's Blogs, Vlogs, Wikis and Podcasts
• Will Richardson's Blogging Resources, Models, Links
• Vicki Davis' recommended Reading List for Bloggers 

Sample Educational Blogs:

• Support Blogging: A massive list of educational blogs
• Blog2Learn: Elementary, Middle, and High School blogs
• High Tech Learning:  Scroll to the bottom of the page
• Classroom Blogs 
• Edubloggers

Teaching Blogging to Students:

• Blogging: It's Elementary: A Webquest introducing elementary students to blogging 
• Teach students how to comment: How to Comment Like a King (or Queen!)   CommentingTips.doc (hand-out for students)
• Ten Habits of Bloggers that Win!: An article by Vicki Davis explaining basic blogging practices.
• The Power of a Newbie: Anne Davis explains the importance of sharing your learning, a topic

          we need to teach students--they're often the best teachers!

Ideas for Using Blogs with Students:

• 10 Ideas from Edublogs

How-To's for Using Edublogs:

• Watch this tutorial video from Edublogs. It walks you through signing up for an account.

• Create a CLASS BLOG.
• Create Individual Student Blogs:  Nate Stearns, an English teacher, provides step-by-step instructions for his students

          to create their own blogs. His is a worthy model for managing the set-up of all a teacher's students in

          different class periods and subjects.

• Add widgets.
• Track comments with CoComments: You leave comments on blogs all over the web but can go to one location to keep track of all your conversations.