The document outlines 10 ideas for using blogs to promote collaborative learning. The ideas include using blogs as writing prompts for student comments, setting up class blogs for teams to write weekly lesson reviews for comments, and posting news articles for students to comment on how they relate to their community. Another idea is to have students collaboratively create a neighborhood tour of their town by adding images, maps and videos.

1. Top 10 ideas for collaborative
learning with blogs

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.