Blogging Bonanza!
Persistence: The Key to Successful Blogging
Fundamentals
Discussion Forum Vs A Blog
A blog starts off with a Post written by the blog owner and others can comment or the author can choose not to allow commenting.
A discussion forum starts off with a post written by anyone within a group and other members reply.
A discussion forum starts off with a post written by anyone within a group and other members reply.
Safety
Staying SafeDiscussing the correct way to interact when using a blog is a good way to introduce best online practice or being safe online. This is a lesson that the students can take with them as they begin (or already are...) to become aware of social networks such as Facebook or Twitter.
Talk About
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Blogging RulesBlogging Rules and Staying Safe
1. Ask your students what they believe the rules for your class should be when using their blogs. 2. Kidblogs has a privacy settings, make sure it is set so that it is not publically accessible. Here is a Start or Try this Site
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Writing the Post
- Write in full sentences – no “text talk” please, like LOL or U or BFF
- Check your writing before posting.
- Use appropriate language.
- Be polite and encouraging and curious.
- Understand inappropriate posts and comments will be deleted.
- Do not plagiarize or copy other's work.
- People can write anything on the internet even if it isn’t true. Dont believe everything you read.
Gearing Up
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Like anything else, we need to take sometime to teach our students what it means to blog, it is a very type of writing. It has a different audience and a different style. Check out some of the examples of "paper blogging" as a great way to start the process.
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Comments and Guidelines
Teaching your students how to comment is as important as teaching best practices of writing their own blog post. This teacher and her students do a wonderful job explaining "How to Comment"
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