What is a blog?
Top 10 Steps for Getting Started with Kidblog
- Determine a purpose for blogging - become familiar with blogging for yourself - get comfortable with blogging before introducing it to your students - learn Kidblog and it's features
- Have your students practice blogging on paper
- Talk to your students about being safe online
- Review the blogging policy with students - set the rules and expectations for blogging and any consequences for not following the policy
- Send a letter home and inform parents of your plan and purpose for blogging and share the policy with parents - get permission before student publishing - use this letter as a template (replace red text)
- Teach them how to comment - follow these guidelines
- Start small - choose a first blog topic for your students that they know well - perhaps an introduction of themselves
- Include parents - invite them to comment on their child's post
- Connect with another class for blogging buddies
- Visit the Blogging Resources below for information on how to do all of the above!
K-12 BlogsClassroom & Student Blogs
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Blogging Resources
- Rules for Blogging Letter for Parents - Academy of Discovery
- AHS Blogging Policy - Arapahoe High School
- The Art and Aspirations of a Commenter - A guide for writing comments
- Comparison of Blogging Services for Teachers - Richard Byrne at Freetech4teachers ***Please note that Kidblog and Edublogs are the only blogging services not blocked by the district
- Why Digital Writing Matters - National Writing Project
- Learning to Blog on Paper - Karen McMillan at Notes from McTeach
- 40+ Classroom and Blog Examples - Richard Byrne at Freetech4teachers
- Why the Internet is like the Mall - Discussing Online Safety with Kids - Pernille Ripp
- 14 Steps to Meaningful Blogging - Pernille Ripp
- Kidblog Overview (video) - Molly Miller