How to build a professional online presence through blogging!

1. Building Writer’s Voice
Through Professional Blogging

2. What we’re here for today…
● Learn how to use mentor texts and rounds of
peer editing to engage students in the
writing process.
● Take away strategies and lesson plans to help
students grow as professional bloggers.
● Understand the logistics of setting up a
blogging accountability system.

3. Our thoughts about teens online…
When you think about
teens online, what is
the first word that
comes to mind?
Q:

4. Online Portfolio vs. Professional Blog
Online Portfolio
● Characteristics
Professional Blog
● Characteristics

5. Benefits of a professional blog…

6. What are the benefits of “professional” blogging?
1. You write for a larger, authentic audience
2. You practice using a blog (wordpress is used
at many universities)
3. You discover your voice
4. You dispel stereotypes about teens online
5. You have an online collection of your work
6. You do not have to hide or block anyone from
seeing your work
7. You learn professional editing techniques

8. Setting up a blog…
https://writingtransforms.wordpress.com/

9. What do students post? ● Word of the Month
○ Tone/mood word
○ Rhetorical mode
(compare/contrast;
definition;
exemplification;
cause/effect, etc.)
● Assignment of the
Month
○ Mentor Text
○ Opinion Piece
○ Open Letter/Editorial
○ Multimedia
presentation
○ Purpose/Passion Piece

10. Sample Student Blog 1

11. Sample Student Blog 2

12. What peer editing looks like…
mirroring professional settings

13. Sample Peer Editing Tool

14. Take-aways
https://writingtransforms.wordpress.com/

15. Students can post VIDEOS
A- Synthesis
(What Education
Means To Me)
B- Persuasive Poem
(When You Think of
World Peace)
C- Rhetorical
Strategies
(Gratitude Post)

16. Q & A