The Best Sources For Advice On Student Blogging

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Dec 26 2008

Posted at 12:00 am under best of the year, blogs, web 2.0, writing

Though my classes have done some limited blogging and communicating with other classes in our International Sister Classes Project, I’m seriously considering trying it more seriously with one of my classes next year.

Because of that, I’ve been trying to learn more about other people’s experiences. I thought I’d share in a short “The Best…” list the places I’ve found most helpful, and I’d certainly like to solicit other suggestions for additions to this list.

Here are my choices for The Best Sources For Advice On Student Blogging:

Sue Waters’ at The Edublogger (of course!) has an excellent post titled Tips On Blogging With Students. It’s filled with advice from teachers who have successfully done so for years. Here’s another version of that information.

Silvia Tolisano at the Langwitches blog just this week began posting a series of Blogging Lesson Plans. I particularly like the one on Commenting. She’s also made all of these blogging lessons available for download.

Bill Ferriter at The Tempered Radical wrote a post about commenting on Voice Thread presentations, but it’s certainly applicable to commenting on blog posts, too. He also offers some good advice in his post sharing Two Critical Tips For Classroom Blog Projects.

Rubrics To Evaluate Classroom Blogging from Enhancing Teaching and Learning offers a variety of useful rubrics.

Sue Waters has done it again with a great post titled Ideas For Student Bloggings From….How Do You Do What You Do!. It’s filled with “how-to” tips for teachers.

Sue Waters has written another great post titled Quick Start Tips For Student Blogging Part I: Setting Up Your Class Blog.

My Blogging Adventure – Some Ideas For Blogger Wannabes by Burcu Akyol offers great advice specifically for ESL/EFL teachers.

Gail Desler has written an excellent post titled Five Tips for Helping Students Become Better Bloggers.

Student Blogging Guidelines is a great post by Kim Cofino.

Five Borrowed Tips for Helping Students Become Better Bloggers is another great post by Gail Desler.

Sue Waters has announced the winners of a contest for the best advice on student blogging in the classroom. Announcing The Winners Of The “Share your tips–and win BIG!” Competition! is a great source of advice.

Bill Ferriter has written several posts with great tips for teachers who are having their students write blogs.

As always, feedback and additional suggestions are welcome.

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Matthias Heilon 26 Dec 2008 at 2:05 am 1

Thanks, Larry, for pointing me this way. I absolutely second your “comment” post preference because it really successfully tackles the important issue of politeness 2.0 – an attitude (and also a skill) vital to our students’ presents and futures (and – again – Langwitches does an excellent job by making the complex and necessary sound so easy and manageable…-)

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Silvia Tolisanoon 26 Dec 2008 at 8:46 am 2

Larry,
This is true collaboration!
I am getting ready to blog with our 5th graders…start writing how-to posts about it….you get a resource list together for me.
THANK YOU!

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Bill Ferriteron 26 Dec 2008 at 10:32 am 4

Hey Larry,

First, I hope you’re well! I haven’t had a chance to stop by in a while and miss learning from you—and from all of your friends over at In Practice.

Second, glad that you found my Commenting on a Voicethread post worthwhile. It’s nice to know that I can help you out a bit, considering how much I’ve learned from you over the past year.

Finally, I also post all of my digital PD resources—on blogging, wikis, Voicethread etc here:

http://digitallyspeaking.pbwiki.com

You might find something helpful there for your blogging projects.

Rock right on,
Bill

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Wayne Basingeron 26 Dec 2008 at 11:29 am 5

Thanks for the great information! I want to have my students blog, and this collection of articles gave me some great ideas for implementing it.

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Kelli McGrawon 29 Dec 2008 at 10:35 pm 7

Thanks for this Larry, and Bill for your link as well
I have been blogging with my classes for 3 years now, each year building it up by adding an extra class – in 2009, almost all of my classes will be supported by a class blog. I use RSS subscriptions to keep track of the posts and comments. Mostly I just use a class blog, but this year my years 8 students will all make their own reflection/homework blog as well.

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