Weblogs can be used by teachers, students, and parents in a K-12 curriculum. A weblog is a webpage that contains brief, chronological entries and can take the form of a diary or links to other sites. Teachers can use weblogs to post assignments for absent students. Parents can use them to see what their children are learning. Weblogs allow for communication between teachers and parents, such as online meetings. They can be used all day by posting updates and allowing comments. Reasons to use weblogs include sharing information, interacting with others, and expressing opinions. Popular websites for creating educational weblogs include Blogger, Edublogs, and Learnerblogs.

1. Using
weblogs in K-
12
Curriculum
Michelle & Kayla

2. Definition blog/weblog:
 a web page
containing brief,
chronologically
arranged items of
information. A blog can
take the form of a
diary, journal, what’s
new page, or links to
other web sites.
 Peter Scott, Internet
Librarian 2001

4. Who can use a weblog?
 Weblogs could be used by everyone. A
weblog is useful to teachers because it
gives them a place to post up all the
assignments the students are working on,
that way if ever a student is absent that
student can go online and find their
missing work.

5. Who can use a weblog?
 Weblogs are also useful to parents so that
the parent can see what their child is
learning about in class. Weblogs are also
convenient for online meetings between
the parent and teacher especially for
working parents.

6. What is a Weblog?
A weblog is, literally, a "log" of the web - a
diary-style site, in which the author (a
"blogger") links to other web pages he or
she finds interesting using entries posted in
reverse chronological order.
 Jane Perronen20 May 2004 12.27 BST
Article history
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2
004/may/20/weblogs

7. When can it be used?
 Weblogs could be used all day every day.
Teachers can post something about the
class in the morning and have the parents
reply to it later that day or evening.

8. Why build WEB LOGS?
 To SHARE your “personal
journal” with the world!
 Interact with other
people.
 Allows readers to add
comments to a post
 Voiceout your own
OPINION!

9. Blogs have been used:
 As a way to
express personal
opinions
 As a marketing
tool
 Communication
tool
 Educational use in
the classroom

10. How to Build Blogs?
 The easiest way,
Blogger.com
 Free
 Steps are straight forward
 Good place to start your
1st blog
 User friendly! Easy to
design with a variety of
layouts, contents,
backgrounds, & so forth.

11. Be Careful! – Blog Safety
 Guides for blogging on sensitive issues are
available on the internet.
 Be careful when blogging about sensitive
issues.
 Don’t blog to “HARRASS” someone.
 Make sure your blog is set up to support
the issues you want to write about.

12. Why Should Schools Blog -
Digitalk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJRFY
nNP0c8

13. Here are some blog sites you
could use…
 www.edublogs.org
 www.learnerblogs.org
 www.blogger.com
 www.schoolblogs.com

14. Resources :
 Peter Scott, Internet Librarian 2001
 Slideshare.com
 Google.com
 Jane Perronen20 May 2004 12.27 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2
004/may/20/weblogs
 Youtube.com