Blogs

=What is a blog?=

//Explanation from Scott//: "A blog is an online journal. I have been using one to teach my class. You can check out my class blog at www.doctorscott.edublogs.org I have also been having my students keep their own blogs to document their research for their gendercide research projects. All of the students blogs have are linked in the blogroll section of my blog. The class has begun reading several blogs as part of their research. Several students and I went to Nicholas Kristof speak the other day. He is a NY Times journalist who recently wrote Half the Sky with his wife Sharon Wudunn. You can check out his blog at the NY Times."

@http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs
 * Blogs in Plain English** (from CommonCraft)

**Blogging Advice**
@http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/2007/10/27/how-to-grow-a-blog/ Thoughtful, detailed thinking about blogging with students -- a must read; also check out the author's //Towards Reflective Blog Talk// @http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/2008/02/04/towards-reflective-blogtalk/
 * How to Grow a Blog**

**@http://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Blogging Note: This also discusses podcasts = = @http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/the_tempered_radical/2008/04/tips-for-classr.html
 * Blogging in the Classroom
 * Students as Contributors on Edublogs: the Quick and Easy Way** @http://mscofino.edublogs.org/2008/02/05/students-as-contributors-on-edublogs-the-quick-and-easy-way/
 * Two Critical Tips for Classroom Blog Projects**

http://theedublogger.com/2009/04/30/ideas-for-student-bloggings-fromhow-do-you-do-what-you-doIncludes suggestions on student blogging responsibilities and building student blogging skills
 * Ideas for student bloggings from... How do you do what you do**

Sample blogs
@http://writeoutloud.edublogs.org/tag/creative-writing/ Created bu a middle school teacher -- "web blog pages of seventh grade English. Here you will find dialog on independent reading books, classroom literature (//The Miracle Worker, The Outsiders, A Midsummer’s Night Dream)// poetry, creative writing, and general reflections of the world around us." Lots of creative writing prompts, with students' work in comments section.
 * Write Out Loud**

@http://alexiscargle.wordpress.com/ This student's blog is part of the Media 21 Project, where students are reading, in literature circles, fiction and non-fiction books about Africa and doing research related to different topics related to Africa. The culminating project will be a multigenre project. In their blogs, students reflect on their research process as well as write response journal entries on the book they are reading.
 * Student Blog**

http://movingforward.wikispaces.com/Education+Blogs+by+Discipline A list compiled by Scott McLeod.
 * Education Blogs by Discipline**

**Starting a Blog -- Free BlogSpace**
@http://edublogs.org/ Has great possibilities for class blogging.
 * Edublogs**

@http://wordpress.com/
 * WordPress**

@http://www.weebly.com/
 * Weebly**