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!
I love this. Completely agree with the observation that students are doing this in the safest of places and have control as they decide how many recordings to make and which to submit. What a great portfolio assessment possibility. And parents would likely be in the know since the children are doing this at home...what a great place to start a dialogue with parents about independent reading.
"The contemporary questions that interest us as adults - like those about power, extinction and health - can be asked in ways that resonate with young people, too. And, their answers can be manifest in real world answers: games, books, stories, art, and more. "
Here is a collection of questions and project cards you can use with your students.