The document discusses blogging with elementary school students. It outlines reasons to start blogging early, such as allowing for journal writing with feedback and writing for a real audience. Different blogging structures for classrooms are presented, such as individual student blogs, class blogs, closed or open blogs. Guidelines are provided for introducing blogging, including using analog activities first and emphasizing digital etiquette.

3. Why Blog with students?

4. Journal writing with no feedback

5. Lets add analog interactivity…

6. Journal writing with teacher feedback

7. Lets take it to the Web…

8. Journal writing on a class blog

9. Journal writing on an open blog

10. Journal writing on an open blog

11. … for an audience It’s writing like they will be doing as adults…

12. How do we learn?

14. What is the “goal”?

15. The development of blogging in students: building conversations in the classroom

19. Different ways to structure blogging for elementary classrooms: their advantages and disadvantages

20. Class blogs or Individual student blogs

21. Closed (private) or open (public) blogs

22. Writing: Drafts or final versions, what should they post?

24. How to structure the introduction of blogging

25. Manners, please Mind Your Manners from Ann Douglas’s photostream on flickr.

26. Start with analog Post-it Note Explosion from Matski’s photostream on flickr.