Blogging for Beginners

[Beth Barnhill]

In this area, the comments that follow will probably have links to places that offer intruction or ideas on blogging.

[Beth Barnhill]

Embedding objects

http://edupln.com/profiles/blogs/class-blogging-tips-and-tricks-1

 and http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/2011/01/27/kick-start-activity...

 

[Beth Barnhill]

30 Days to Kickstart Your Blogging from The Edublogger

 

Our first Challenge was 30 Days to Kick Start Your Blogging and here’s where you’ll find the Beginners posts:

1. Kick Start Activity 1 – Beginner – Setting Up Your Blog
2. Kick Start Activity 2 – Beginner – Effective and engaging blog posts
3. Kick Start Activity 3 – Beginner – Introduction to working with pages
4. Kick Start Activity 4 – Beginner – Connecting with others
5. Kick Start Activity 5 – Beginner – Enhancing posts with images
6. Kick Start Activity 6 – Beginner – Enhancing posts by embedding media
7. Kick Start Activity 7 – Beginner – Getting more out of widgets
8. Kick Start Activity 8 – Beginner – Building readership and blogrolls

[sonia barski]

I've been exploring  blogging and using wiki's with my grade 3 class. The biggest challenge is that many of my students do not go on our class website and blog at home. They haven't incorporated the technology as part of their learning and a few don't have internet. Most of my students are ESL and the parents are just becoming familiar with the technology themselves. It has been a slow process. For the students who are consistently using it at home, it has been great.To ensure all students participate, I give class time. Next year my goal is to involve parents right from the beginning in the use of our class website and blog assignments. If anyone has an idea on how to motivate students to complete small blog assignments independently, I'd like to hear from you.