Blogging in a primary school – lesson 41
A decision has been made that as from the start of 2012 each year group will run a blog at my school, YAY! So this techie brekkie was a reminder of all the great ways blogs are being used in Australian Primary classrooms today. Our school will be blogging using the edublogs platform. So the first thing we did was to check out the edublogs site and remind everyone of the edublogs help centre.
We also discussed the following issues:
What each blog will be called
Who will set up the new blogs
Who will write the permission for blogging letter that will need to go home to parents next year and what information it should contain
If we will allow the use of personal photographs in our blogs
Which years will allow student bloggers
How a student blog will be run and how a student can earn a blog.
Will our blogs be teacher or student centred
We modeled collaborative learning by creating notes during this techie brekkie using a previous set up google doc.
Finally we each viewed a different class blog from a list taken from here. We focused on blogs appropriate to each stage and we discussed positive aspects of that blog with our stage buddies.
I also reminded staff of the following articles on the benefits of blogging.
Jenny Luca’s post ‘Six reasons students should know about blogging’
Kathleen Morris’s post ‘Blogging with very young students’
Student teacher Zoe’s article ‘Blogging in the classroom’ which cites many research articles in support of blogging.
Finally I have added a link to Rachel Boyd’s video Why let our students blog? Since it was Rachel who inspired me to start holding Techie Brekkies in the first place, it seems appropriate to acknowledge her again as we come to the end of 2011.
