Blogging+Resources

=Blogging Resources= Tina's Blog--[|Teaching with Technology] Meg's Blog--[|Giant Stride] Joani's Blog--[|Joani's Tech Tips]

What is Blogging?
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Places to blog:
[|Kidblogs] (Great for Elementary and Middle School) [|Edublogs] (I recommend you pay to remove ads) [|Blogger] (only secondary--be careful of the "next blog" button; goes with a google account)

View other Blogs
Links to School Bloggers Moving Forward (List of great blogs!)

Increase Your Audience/ Collaborate with Other Classrooms Comments4Kids [|Quad Blogging] [|Student Blogging Challenge] [|Next Step Project (Jan 2014)]

Create Avatars [|Build Your Wild Self] Tips:
 * Make sure to have students enter their SCREEN name
 * Act like you are going to print the final product, then right click on the printer page, and SAVE AS to save the picture to the computer.

[|Raster Boy] Tips:
 * There are a couple of icons inappropriate for school, but nothing too bad. Just make sure the students know their avatar must be appropriate for school.

Blog Examples

Primary
[|Mrs Kolbert's Class] [|Mr. Bennett's Beach Brains] [|Teddy Bears Around the World] [|Kindergarten Tales] (Kindergarten) [|Mrs. Cassidy's Class] (1st Grade) [|Patterson's Pack] (1st Grade) [|Busy Bees] (2nd Grade) [|A World of Wonder] (2nd Grade) [|Mighty Writers] (3rd Grade) [|Blogging is Cool!] (3rd Grade) [|Miss Daly and Mrs. Stultz's Blog] (3rd Grade) [|Ms. Marit] (4th Grade) [|Miss Baer](4th Grade) [|Mrs. Handsen's Fourth Grade Class] (4th Grade) [|South Paris] (5th Grade) [|Mr. Ludwig](5th Grade) [|Mrs. B Online] (5th Grade) [|Ms. Deyenberg's Class Blog] (5th Grade) [|Mrs. Hudson's Class Blog] (5th Grade)

Secondary
[|Voyagers][|Math306-04] [|Room 167] [|Miss McMillian's Blog] [|Applied Math 40S] [|AP Calculus AB] [|SP8-16 Math Blog]

Example Blog Assignments
[|English Elementary] [|Math Elementary] [|Science Elementary] [|Social Studies Elementary]

[|Science] [|English] [|History] [|Math]