Blogging

Blogs can be used in schools as:

• Individual blogs where students can display their writings, poems, ideas, photos, art etc
• Group blogs where student writing, opinions etc are published in a class context.
• Group blogs where the blog entry is a query, discussion topic, image etc and students in the class add their contribution as a comment.

Notes on Blogging

Using Blogs in Class

Getting started with blogmeister

Blogs and blogging for Learning  (Mouse over the lower right of the screen for drop down menu and navigation)

Different companies offer free and commercial blogs:

• [www.blogger.com|Blogger: ] Blogs I have created at Blogger include barkcanoe- about my sabbatical travels in 2005 and barkochre- a blog about graphics. Blogs are free. Photos can be uploaded while editing the blog or uploaded using Hello!

• BigBlog: A blogging service offered by Bigpond to its subscribers.  Worth looking at as the interface is easy to use and photo galleries are included. 10 Megabytes of storage is free. Note: 10 megabytes is not a lot of room for photos unless they are resized and compressed beforehand.  Note: I have started this one (but not spent any real time updating it)  vegemite.

• Cooey an Aussie Blog and email Provider: Has bright attractive page design 

Blogs with an Education or Class orientation:

• Edublogs provides free blogging for Educators and students.  http://edublogs.org/ 

  Kit has a sample edublog at: http://kitblog.edublogs.org/   This blog has some links on how to use edublogs.  Edublogs are free though Campus blogs can be purchased (managing blogs for a school using school domain etc.  If you want to 

• Class Blogmeister is designed for easy class management of class blogging.

•  21 Classes has a sophisticated class versus individual and co-operative blogging.  Free with 2Mb limit per student blog or USD8.95 per month for 25MB per student blog etc.

Examples:

Adrian Bruce's blog 4 busy educators 

Using a blog to provide a class summary of students' stories with links to each: Middle P Stories Online  Each story read by the student with video of their accompanying artwork.

See also the examples on the blogmeister page

Miss Terri's Blog  Includes some Links that may be useful 

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