Comments on: Blogging Basics with Students

By: Rodney Turner

Rodney Turner — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:56:39 +0000

Thanks for sharing your blogging experience with students. This post gave me courage, ideas for class structure and privacy policies I can implement in my class.
Can’t wait to read more about how you blog with students.

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A School Year in Review 2009 – 2010 « Trails Optional — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:22:37 +0000

[...] Blogging – in September my first foray into individual student blogging was painful. I had created accounts, but we had to learn to log on, navigate our dashboard, how to create a new post, edit posts, and format the look of the blog. There is a lot of upfront set up work (selecting a theme, title, tagline) that was overwhelming at first. By the end of the year we were blogging experts! We did comment, but the next step would be to become more proficient in commenting. I would like my students to comment as often as they blog. [...]

By: Melissa Jones

Melissa Jones — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:31:29 +0000

I think that is great what you are doing with classroom blogging.Blogging gives students a chance to express themselves more than they would in just the classroom setting. It is also a good thing that you have set up safety precautions and monitor what the students blog. I also think it is great that the students are learning how to use the internet in a positive and useful way.I am quite new to blogging but, I am starting to get the hang of it.I introduced myself to one of your post's on the old blog site, but I'll introduce myself again. My name is Melissa Jones and I am an elementary education major at the University of South Alabama. I am currently enrolled in EDM 310 Microcomputing Systems EDM310 Blogspot and I have been assigned to follow your blog page for the next few weeks. On June 30th I will be summarizing my visits to your blog on my blog pageMelissa Jones EDM310 Blogspot.

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links for 2010-06-07 | Creating a Path for Learning in the 21st Century — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:15:21 +0000

[...] Blogging Basics with Students « Trails Optional "This year I’ve been blogging with my Grade 5 (age 10-11) students. We have a class blog where we share collective thoughts, links, activities, and general information. Each student has an individual blog where they can post updates of things they are learning, responses to videos, lessons, other class activities, or their own thoughts and ideas. Sometimes I set a prescribed topic, sometimes I give a structure, sometimes I leave it open." (tags: blogs blogging students) [...]

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Langwitches Blog » links for 2010-06-07 — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:03:37 +0000

[...] Blogging Basics with Students « Trails Optional This year I’ve been blogging with my Grade 5 (age 10-11) students. We have a class blog where we share collective thoughts, links, activities, and general information. Each student has an individual blog where they can post updates of things they are learning, responses to videos, lessons, other class activities, or their own thoughts and ideas. Sometimes I set a prescribed topic, sometimes I give a structure, sometimes I leave it open. (tags: blogging blogging_in_the_classrom) [...]

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Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:31:40 +0000

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By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:51:21 +0000

Thanks Jen for sharing how you blog with your students and what they have gained. That is a powerful example of how blogging has helped your student that has struggled.

Also just a quick update in case you aren’t aware and handy to know if you have other blogs you want to upgrade. An Edublogs Pro blog can now upgrade up to 50 blogs. We decided to increase it because we’ve had teachers with up to 35 students in their class and wanted to make it easier for them.

By: Oliver Quinlan

Oliver Quinlan — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:09:40 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experiences Jen. We have done a lot of work with whole class blogging at our school in Birmingham, UK. I have been blogging all year with my 8-9 yr old class (http://class40q.wordpress.com), and am really interested in taking it further with my class next year by setting up individual blogs. My hope is that we can utilize them for sharing work, but more importantly providing a focused place for reflecting on learning. I would love to see them documenting not just the result but the process of learning, and helping them to think abstractly about that process.

Have you had such a focus for your pupil’s blogs? If so has this worked well?

By: Mioara Iacob

Mioara Iacob — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:37:57 +0000

Dear Jen Deyenberg,

Congratulations on the post and the whole blog for your students. I created a blog myself for my 5th grader students who are learning English (in Bucharest, Romania), but they are quite reluctant to start writing in English. The idea was to make the students practice writing and reading in English and their parents get involved in their kids’ activities. I hope we’ll make some progress soon; anyway, I’m not giving up. They’ve visited the blog, read, had opinions, but seem to be afraid to write. It’s a slow beginning; might be my fault, too. It’s not exactly my expertise.
All the best in all your activities.
MIoara Iacob