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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.

Quick 3 minute tour of new KidBlog platform.

This would be a great way to teach students the purpose of using tags on their posts.

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!

KidBlog new platform tutorials. Might be helpful!

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

Embed Animotos on Kidblogs!

Ideas for using with KidBlog.

More ideas for topics...

Hopes & Dreams & how to make them happen - great extension to our Hopes & Dreams

Good example of how to think through the hopes and dreams and achieve them.

Like SAMR as a framework on how we use technology, SE2R gives a framework on how to respond to student's digital reflections. They even use a KidBlog example.

Clever formative assessment ideas for a one-to-one classroom

There might be ways to use Kidblog for this also. I love exit cards and am always glad when I use them, but haven't made it a regular practice. I imagine many of our colleagues have great ideas for using them- digital or not. Voice recording apps might also work for this...