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"Blogging can support the strategies, techniques and approaches to facilitate the learning in your classroom no matter what grade level, age group and subject area. Blogging supports four primary areas: Reading Writing Reflecting Sharing"

"Copying the "scribe post blog" idea from Darren Kuroptawa, we've used a Blogger site this semester as a shared learning blog / scribe blog. Students were randomly assigned a partner at the start of term and a week to summarize, and worked together to post a thorough recap of their week's topic and learning points. In week 13 we discussed Pecha Kutcha presentations as well as phonecasting, and the student summary for the week was excellent. This summary was good, in part, because it included multiple hyperlinks to relevant resources."

Blog post on using Mindmap for prewriting organization of blogs, essays, or any writing assignment.

Before blogging with students, teach them the "why" and how of blogging on paper.

"Mrs. Wilkie's Science Workshop Blog Get psyched about Science!"

"Take a few minutes to watch the following "Quality Commenting on Blogs" video by third graders. Then follow along the description of the creation process and "behind the scenes" work that went into the production of the video. Let's dissect the video creation and look at the learning process itself. "

Ideas for creating blog postings.

"If you have a blog or website it can be a good idea to include a panel displaying your recent tweets. The process of adding a stream of tweets to your blog is now much easier with the addition of a widget maker in Twitter."

"As you are watching, ask yourself: What changed by using, in this case, the iPad and ShowMe app? Could the same [learning] have been accomplished by keeping students' illustrations analog? Was there differentiation potential? Can this type of "activity" be used as an assessment to replace/upgrade traditional assessment? Are the movie clips potential artifacts for digital portfolios? Could these movie clips be part of a variety of student work at a parent-teacher conference? Was any learning amplified by placing it on the classroom blog to share with families? What skills were practiced? What literacies were supported? Was it worth the extra time investment, the learning curve?"

student generated blog centered on exploring how the world works

"I have been working with 5th grade for several weeks to upgrade "The American Revolution", a unit in their Social Studies curriculum. Along the Way I blogged about individual lessons"

"Comments are not just an extrinsic part of having a blog - in 21classes they are presented as an integral part of the activity."

"History, technology, and probably some other stuff." This is an interesting blog that offers some interesting ideas on technology integration.

"Having a tiring end to the year after dealing with some tough personal events in my life, I have decided to take some time and enjoy things outside work. Although people get on my case about blogging, I find writing to be soothing and a release for my mind that seems to be all over the place on most days. As I sat on a plane heading to The Avett Brothers concert, I thought about the next year (year in teacher language is usually August until June in many countries) and what are some of the things that I am going to focus on that will make next year great. Hopefully some of these thoughts will help others as well."

"Know your visitors Target your content Show off your community Automatic: clicks optional Speedy, scalable See who visits your blog site with this widget. Giant map, optional zooms No spyware, no 3rd-party cookies Real-time dots!"

"As we are asking ourselves: "How do we upgrade a traditionally taught curriculum unit and bring it into the 21st century?" … We need to test, probe and continuously experiment what works? How does it work? Is the upgrade transformative? Does it increase student motivation? Engagement? Learning?"

"Today I wanted to share our experimentation with different types of note taking as part of creating "Official Scribes" for the classroom while taking into account the students' different learning styles. Students were starting a unit about the American Revolution by watching an introductory video clip. We discussed different ways to take notes and came up with: individual note taking by paper and pencil individual note taking on a word processor collaborative backchanneling visual note taking (on SmartBoard and paper)"

first grade blog