[Yr7-10it] Blogging for Students

[Margaret Lawson]

When I used blogs as part of an Year 9 English literacy initiative many 
years ago, we used http://www.livejournal.com
why? The kids could completely lock down their posts and they would only 
be available to each other and not the whole world. We also set up a 
community so that we could post the task that they were working on and 
then they could comment when they completed their book reviews.

We found that the kids would only participate if there was a mark 
associated with contributions. A lot of our ESL students loved the 
environment because they could draft and re-draft.

I am sure that there are better blogs out there than Livejournal. When 
we did the Year 9 English Literacy initiative, there wasn't much out there!

I like the idea of setting up some controls and then if the kids like 
blogging they can go and set up their own blog account external to what 
you have done in the classroom.

Margaret

On 26/02/2011 9:07 AM, Gail A Casey wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Over the last few years I have moved from the classblogmeister
> community of school bloggers:
> http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=97161
> (this I found much easier to moderate and monitor because each student
> blog was controlled by the teacher)
>
> to Nings - yes I know nings now cost money but this can be as little
> as a packet of white board markers ($20).
>
> Last semester I used http://ghs2010.ning.com/
> to set up a Maths help including video help tutorials that both myself
> and my students made. They also took screen clips of their excel
> graphs and google scketch up projects. Each student has their own blog
> in a Ning and the teacher can setup a number of controls. examples can
> be found at:
> http://ghs2010.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?user=3upcu0w7tm3qn
> http://ghs2010.ning.com/group/mathswebsites?
> http://ghs2010.ning.com/group/mathshelp
> http://ghs2010.ning.com/group/googlesketchyupinmaths
>
> http://ghs2010.ning.com/forum/topics/ning-samples-and-work-from
>
> This student was in both my maths and IT class -
> http://ghs2010.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?user=09lkq6s7gt81t
>
> Hope this helps
> Cheers
> Gail Casey
>
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:38 AM,<mppascoe at tpg.com.au>  wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> For my Year 9 ICT class, I want to have them Blog about each of their
>> completed projects, including a screenshot of their finished product.
>>
>> I was hoping to use Google Blogger, but can't get it working on the school's
>> network.
>>
>> We have unblocked the following URLs:
>>
>> http://www.blogger.com/
>>
>> http://3.bp.blogspot.com/
>> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/
>> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/
>> http://4.bp.blogspot.com/
>>
>> as well as these pages for their individual Blogger Accounts:
>>
>>   <http://ppa2011student01.blogspot.com/>
>> http://ppa2011student01.blogspot.com/
>>   <http://ppa2011student02.blogspot.com/>
>> http://ppa2011student02.blogspot.com/
>>
>> .... through to
>>
>>   <http://ppa2011student30.blogspot.com/>
>> http://ppa2011student30.blogspot.com/
>>
>> the students can get in, but the editor just lags forever, and they cannot
>> input any information.
>>
>> Has anyone had similar problems and know how to solve this?
>>
>> I am now in the process of setting up EDUBLOGS accounts for my class of
>> students, to try and use that platform instead.
>> Is Edublogs good? Has anyone used it? Any Tips and Traps?
>>
>> Has anyone used Blogging on Moodle, and is that any good?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul Pascoe
>> ICT / Mathematics Teacher
>> St Francis Xavier College Berwick
>>
>> http://passyworldofict.blogspot.com/
>> http://www.youtube.com/passyworldofict
>> mppascoe at tpg.com.au
>>
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