1. Top 10 ideas for collaborative
learning with blogs
2. Teacher Blogs
• it serves as a focal point for writing exercises,
models and prompts
• it communicates useful classroom
information, announcements, online links and
readings and exercises in one space
• it can include links to individual student blogs
• it contains useful student comment space for
collaboration and peer review
3. Class Blogs
• it unites all class announcements,
assignments, and exercises in one space with
the teacher as the operator of the site
• it provides a workspace for students to share
thoughts, drafts, or projects in a relatively
low-stakes environment
• it provide a venue for quieter students to
“speak” and contribute ideas
4. Student Blogs
• they provide a workspace for assignments,
brainstorming, process-oriented activities and
questions of design and visual rhetoric
• they help students develop a sense of audience,
voice and ownership
• they serve as an archive of the writing process by
storing drafts and works in progress
• they display and publish final polished projects
and new media projects
• they enable students to extend their thinking and
research
5. Blogs for Collaborative Learning
10. Use your blog as a writing prompt that your
students need to comment on- students
should comment on each other's comments
9. Set up a class blog and teams of students to
write a weekly review of lesson or a topic.
Get other students and parents to comment.
6. Blogs for Collaborative Learning
8. Post a news article on a current event and ask
students to write comments on it on how it
relates to their community
7. Have students produce and present an online
newspaper on a theme or topic
7. Blogs for Collaborative Learning
6. Assign students a particular role that will need
to research. Have them write an argument
form that perspective and allow student
comments to stir debate
5. Have students report back on fieldwork.
Integrate podcasts and findings
8. Blogs for Collaborative Learning
4. Create a neighborhood tour or historical tour
of your town. Students should collaborate,
add images, maps and videos.
3. Set up a suggestion box for course
evaluation, fresh ideas, student questions or
for flipping the learning experience
9. Blogs for Collaborative Learning
2. Use your blog as a writing prompt that your
students need to comment on- students
should comment on each other's comments
1. Set up an online story that students
contribute to over course weeks or months.
