This document discusses setting up a classroom blog site called Tyndall Park for students to post their writing. It provides instructions on logging into the blog site, changing passwords, and making posts. It then lists several benefits of having students blog, including motivating them to polish their writing for a real audience, allowing family to see their work, exploring media texts, introducing a new writing genre, and inspiring some students to start their own blogs and see themselves as writers. Security, privacy and copyright issues need to be considered when setting up a student blog.

2. www.blogs.wsd1.org/tyndallpark

3. -To design and create a Tyndall Park Blogsite.
-Preview Tyndall Park and other blog sites
-Discussion of “Intent”
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4. Discussion on What Should It Look Like.
Get password from email
Paste password into Word
Log in to Tyndall Park Blog site
Change password
Make a post
To ensure passwords work
Log in to access the blog whenever the teacher wants
Post information for students, parents, etc.
Able to:
Log in to blog
Change password
Post to the blog and it “shows up” on the blog site.

5. 1. It gives your students an authentic purpose to write.
The idea that their stories will be published online for
the world to see may motivate them to do their best.
2. Students have a real goal in sight when using the
writing process. Not everything needs to be
revised, edited, and published, but because this work will
be on public display, there’s greater incentive to polish the
work.
3. It allows your students to share their work with family
members around the world. (And if the student work is
translated into their first language, it allows dear old
grandma who lives overseas and doesn’t speak English the
opportunity to celebrate in your students’ success.)

6. 4. It provides a way to create and explore media texts as a natural extension
of the writing process. Instead of just publishing your good copies on your
school bulletin board, why not publish your good copies online. Your students
may even get feedback and comments from people in cyberspace. (You can
even set up your class blog so that it shows where in the world your
comments are coming from.)
5. It introduces your students to a new genre and form. Blog posts typically
use short sentences and short paragraphs to pre-digest the content in this
channel-changing world.
6. It may inspire some of your student to blog themselves and encourage
them to see themselves as writers.
There are, of course, security, privacy, and copyright issues to consider, but
done correctly, blogging in the classroom can provide a modern way to engage
your students.
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