Try-Blogs

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READ CAREFULLY--**two parts** to the assignment!

1. Figure out WHY you would use a blog in your classroom. You have several choices: with students doing the blogging or as a staff development effort with co-workers doing the blogging.

2. Make a blog for your future classroom!

a. Create a blog (I suggest you use blogger.com, edublogger or livejournal). Format the blog and create a beginning post. Put some thought into this--this should be the first post of many, so figure out what that conversation is going to be and how you are going to facilitate it and make this first posting one that students will respond to in an honest and meaningful way. Then put a link into your wiki where the blog can be assessed. Be sure to set it up with the right permissions!!! When you have completed the blog, let me know it is posted on your NAVIGATION BAR.

b. Now, go to the class blog and begin a conversation about classroom blogging, siting some of the resources you discovered on this page and share, in depth, how you plan to have the students (or collegues) use the blog, how you will assess the effectiveness of the blog entries, and what you hope to accomplish as a result of your blog.

Having troubles with posting to the blog? Here's a [|video] I made for you! ** Additional Resources ** Transparency and constructivism, etc. (or five good reasons to blog the research process) by Joyce Valenza http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/560014056.html This article outlines 5 good reasons to blog when using research.

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