[Yr7-10it] Blogging for Students

[Maggie]

Livejournal is blocked at St Leonard's

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On 26/02/2011, at 12:51, Margaret Lawson <margaret.lawson at konstantkaos.net> wrote:

> 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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