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"10 Steps To Be A Blogging School no10In this article, I would like to share the 10 steps for being a blogging school. This is the way I decided to follow based on my experiences as a teacher and blogger. Maybe, before writing this kind of a blog post, I should wait until the experience proves to be successful. So please remember: These are not proven success steps to be a blogging school but my ideas might help you generate your own. At the end of this academic year, I will write another blog post and evaluate the success of the way I followed."

"Spelling it out for you GEORGE SKARBEK July 30, 2009 Even with checks we don't always get it write, er, right. By George Skarbek. Automatic spell checking in word-processing programs is now accepted as an essential part of accurate writing and most users appreciate it picking up typing errors, duplicated words, incorrect capitalisation and similar errors."

A site dedicated poetry fun. Learn how to inspire students to write poetry in class. Read and rate poems written by others. Explore various poetry activities that will engage your students.

" Other fab ideas from the same site: * Trading cards * Jigsaws * Pop art * Hockneyizer * Calendar john sutton: http://www.twitter.com/hgjohn 7.Make a photostory and add audio Scanned in images can be inserted into Photostory to develop a story with voice recordings and audio. The image to the left is from a scanned storyboard which the children put into the programme and then recorded the story adding music afterwards. Bill Lord www.twitter.com/@joga5 8 Create a twitpic. we brort aw toys to scool and we tuk sum fotos. Let the world know what you are doing! This is a twitpic from @giraffeclass - a Year 1 class which tweets to give the children a different audience and purpose for their writing. It has become a daily part of their routine."

" Other fab ideas from the same site: * Trading cards * Jigsaws * Pop art * Hockneyizer * Calendar john sutton: http://www.twitter.com/hgjohn 7.Make a photostory and add audio Scanned in images can be inserted into Photostory to develop a story with voice recordings and audio. The image to the left is from a scanned storyboard which the children put into the programme and then recorded the story adding music afterwards. Bill Lord www.twitter.com/@joga5 8 Create a twitpic. we brort aw toys to scool and we tuk sum fotos. Let the world know what you are doing! This is a twitpic from @giraffeclass - a Year 1 class which tweets to give the children a different audience and purpose for their writing. It has become a daily part of their routine."

"Robust grammar checking allows you to find those pesky mistakes and correct them before turning in your paper. " Find out if your paper contains plagiarized text before your professor does. Our proofreading system alerts you to opportunities to improve your writing.

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"There are many excellent platforms that teachers and students can use to create and maintain a blog throughout the school year. Depending upon your chosen purpose for student blogging, some platforms are better than others. But if you just want students to occasionally publish an essay to the web for peer review, you might not need a full-fledged blogging platform. Here are five ways that you can have students publish their essays to the web in under a minute (writing and editing time excluded)."