Blogging

Resources:

[|Paul Hamilton's Blog]

[|Blogging is Elementary Kim Cofino]

[|Langwitches Silvia Tolisano]


 * **[|Logistics of Formatting a Blog Post]**
 * **[|Creating an Outline for Blogging Unit Plan]**
 * **[|Introduction to Blogging Lesson Plan]**
 * **[|Blogging Lesson Plan — Online Safety]**
 * [|**Blogging Lesson Plan — Commenting**]
 * **[|Blogging Lesson Plan — Writing]**

[|Sue Water Edublogger - improving your blogging]

[|Darren Rouse 31 days to building a better blog]

[|Kim Cofino - new blog Connect 2.0]

[|Chris Harbeck's Blog hub]

[|Chris Harbeck's class wiki] Student Blogs:

Chris Harbeck PLP expert says:

Really work on the comments. It takes effort and work and lots of talk with the students. Once they start commenting on each others post the quality of the posts takes off.

I have found that kids will start commenting as if they are on MSN or facebook. You need to recognize this as a first step and wean them off of this habit and get them using full sentences and really reading other peoples posts.

Good luck and have perseverance.


 * Examples:**

[|Graham Wagner's blog Clarence Fishers students]


 * Chris also says:** I would really stress with you students to have a great title and first paragraph. These seem to be the parts that are captured on the homepage. It might be a good writing exercise seeing who can come up with the catchiest title and read that gets the most student responses. Just a thought.

[|Library blog - Leonie Dyson]


 * Chris Harbeck on commenting:**

One of the most important things you can do is at first enforcing a commenting policy. You need to get the students reading each others work and leaving questions and comments behind. When the other students see that there is an audience for their work then you have magic that will intrinsically motivated.

Try and find a sister school that could comment on your students work. The further away this school is to your own the more "special" the comment will be. I would also get the students to include a clustr map on their blog and your own. This will show them where all the visits have come from.

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