This document discusses using blogs in the classroom and provides recommendations for different blogging platforms. It recommends that teachers can use blogs as a class website (#1), have a class blog for students (#2), or set up individual student blogs (#3). It also provides tips on setting up blogs through Blogger or alternative platforms like Edublogs or Wordpress. Students would use assigned usernames to post and teachers would have administrator access on all blogs. Overall, the document explores how blogs can promote literacy and engagement for students.

1. Class Blogging Al Samsa January 31, 2011

2. Blogging? Blog is short for Web Log So why blog? Literacy Engaged Interactive Alternative Environmental It's 2011

3. #1 Teacher Blog as Web Site

4. #2 Class Blog

5. #3 Student Blogs Students maintain own blogs Teacher as administrator on all

6. Nuts & Bolts Sign up for a blog Customize Add users Make usernames, e.g., 01 John, 02 Mary (alpha by last name on class list) Make labels for each post match usernames

7. Blogger Sign Up http://www.blogger.com/create-blog.g?pli=1

8. Dashboard

9. Add Users

10. Rules Create with your students

13. Embed Videos, Presentations, etc.

14. Alternatives? http://edublogs.org/ popular, directed at education free version puts their ad on every new post server buggy http://wordpress.com no ads! now $17 per year :-( http://posterous.com powerful platform offering 1 gig of storage can post from and to sources like email, twitter, facebook, etc.

15. Your Turn Start a blog at one of the sites Personalize Add a post Add a post with a video, presentation, etc. Add users Log in as a user, make a post with labels\categories http://tiny.cc/ridgeblogs http://ridgeblogs.blogspot.com/