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Examples  So how can using a blog help students learn history? There are limitless ways to use the website, but there are a few strategies that work particularly well in the elementary environment. When first starting a unit, create a "KWL chart" on your blog. Have students blog about what they know, what they want to know, and eventually what they have learned. Students will be able to see other posts and scaffold their learning off the responses of others. As the educator, you can quickly assess, focus, and possibly redirect your unit to meet the specific needs of your students. Have students blog about what they know, what they want to know, and eventually what they have learned. Another way to use Kidblog is to post video or audio clips. After our unit on the early 20th century, students viewed and listened to footage of Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt on Kidblog. Students had to decide who was a better president, and they blogged reasons to support their choices. Knowing that the writing was being presented to classmates encouraged a focus on the published quality.

Good list of interesting blogs to check out.

Thanks Michele

A good resource for ideas for class blogs.

Interesting blog on why we should be including and teaching presentation skills.

A blog dedicated to sharing student stories and voices

We are going to try this...

This is a blog about math apps and the author has done a fantastic job of reviewing different apps and giving ideas on how to use them within the classroom. Worth looking at.

Some great ideas for topics for our blogs, both Diigo and KidBlog.

Thanks to Tom Weis for sharing this.

#edchat history and why it would be a good start in using twitter for connecting about education.

Here are directions for setting up your blogs and allowing students to keep last year's work. This will enable us to use KidBlog as a multi-year digital portfolio! Yeah!

At the end of a project-based learning (PBL) experience, students typically share what they have learned or discovered with an audience. Depending on the project, students might publish their work online, make presentations at a public event, or pitch their ideas to a panel of judges.

Read this blog and think about our Fridays!

very helpful and worth looking at - thank you

Kelly found this article on using Book Creator in the classroom.

Good, concise ideas on activities to do with your students.

All About Explorers looks like something we could use with upper grades to teach them how to discern accurate from inaccurate information as they become more literate on the web. I'd like to look more closely at that.