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a collection of lots of blogs, some we know... some we might want to know :)

setting up a blog

Only one month into the new school year and almost every middle school student has their own blog hosted at ISB (plus all of our grade 5s, and quite a few high school students)! Thanks to our fantastic middle school Humanities and Modern Language teachers, who spent their class time helping students create their own blog, we are off and running in record time!

This is a place to list subject-specific P-12-oriented blogs that are worth sharing with others.

Blogs that might be specifically about your learning area.

Some very cool and easy to implement ideas to get your kids blogging, you could have this as a checklist so you don't have to always be thinking how to get kids/parents interacting on the blogs.

Here are the activities so you can go at your own pace.

How to teach your kids to comment in blogging! Weebly teachers this is for us.

Nice way to bring in the idea of blogging content before going global

From the first week of school, the six-year-olds in my classroom begin to create an online presence in the form of a blog and digital portfolio. We use a blogging platform to do this, and include artifacts that show their progress in writing, reading, math, social studies, and science. I am frequently asked why I do this. Even more frequently, I can see in a colleague's eyes that they are thinking "why," even if they don't verbalize their question. The way that those educators have always done portfolios has worked well for them. Their students are learning the things they need to learn and are building a paper portfolio as they do so. Why do I take the extra time to upload those artifacts?

I had two eye-opening experiences this week, both really got me thinking about online sharing, curation of digital versus "real" work (E-portfolios) , and overall student learning, both in terms of motivation for and expressions of. The first was the grade 10 MYP Personal Project exhibition, the second my daughter, Kaia's, student-led conference for her PYP Kindergarten class.