Introduction about blogging and how to create a blog for your students.

1. By Erin Petley

2. WHAT IS A BLOG?
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Slang word for web log
Way to communicate
Personal online journal/diary
Discussions for class event
Reviews for tests

3. WHY USE A BLOG?
 Reluctant students are able to be involved in
classroom discussions
 Students can share their
expertise in an area
 Highly motivating
 Collaboration
 Paperless way to journal

4. IS IT SAFE?
 YES!
 You can monitor your blog
 Posts aren’t published until you
approve them
 You can keep your whole/parts of your
blog private

5. BLOGGING PLATFORMS
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Blogcheese
Blogger
Blogsome
Blogster
Edublogs
Live Journal
Wordpress
Vox

6. BLOGGING USING THE SAMR MODEL

7. MY BLOGGING EXPERIENCE
www.mspetley.edublogs.com

8. BLOGGING USING THE SAMR
MODEL
 Start simple!
 http://gettingsmart.com/2013/07/the-samrladder-through-the-lens-of-21st-century-skills/
 Blogging rubric for yourself
 http://www.scribd.com/doc/114256742/Educatio
nal-Blogging-Rubric

9. EXAMPLE IDEAS
 http://mscassidysclass.edublogs.org/
 http://5s2012.edublogs.org/
 http://www.scribd.com/doc/101807658/20student-blog-post-ideas

11. SOME BLOGGING TERMINOLOGY
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Dashboard – manage your blog site
Manage – posts, pages, uploads, import and export
Comments – monitor comments made at site
Write – create and edit posts or pages
Posts – Your added content
Widgets – add other blog info, calendars, search, blog
stats, and more to your site
Blogroll – add links for other blogs feeds that you read
Presentation – customize the look and feel of your blog
Users – add administrators, contributors, authors, editors
to your blog
Options – control blog name, reading writing privileges,
privacy, discussions, inappropriate words, delete blog.

12. IF IN DOUBT…GOOGLE IT
Most blogging questions can be answered online
Or I can help you!

13. LET’S GET STARTED
Go to www.edublogs.com or your own
choice of blogging platform to use
Set up your account and then give your
blog a name…. English 101, …..etc…