The document discusses the importance of student blogging as a tool for learning 21st-century skills and creating a digital portfolio that is accessible to a wider audience. It highlights how blogging empowers students to protect their personal information, make positive digital footprints, and engage with authentic audiences while also enabling long-term academic and personal growth. Additionally, it provides resources for teachers to start blogging in their classrooms and aligns blogging practices with educational standards.

1. Blog Wild! By: Kim Zimmer Technology Facilitator - Avoca School District 37 Twitter: @MacTeacher http://avoca37.org/zimmerk

2. Why Student Blogging? Consumable > Accessible 21st Century Skills Authentic Audience Long Term Growth Technology Standards

3. Consumable vs. Accessible Stude nt work that is burned to a A CD-ROM or compiled as a paper portfolio reaches home and eventually winds up here: A student blog is accessible to anyone with Internet access and winds up here: Photo Credit Photo Credit

4. Blogging equips students to safely and effectively use 21st century techniques for real-world applications 21st Century Skills

5. Students learn the importance of protecting their personal information. Students learn how to make positive digital footprints. Students learn to comment with care. Students naturally become more connected across their grade level, schools, country and globe. Gives students a moderated place to make mistakes.

6. Authentic audience Blogging gives students an authentic audience. Check out our comments from authors!

7. Student Growth Blogging gives students new opportunities for visible long-range academic and personal growth.

8. Lorin Anderson, updated the taxonomy in 2001, adding more relevance for 21st century students and teachers. Source Students write a blog post about the project to accompany their work and ask for comments. Students have an accessible digital portfolio of their work for review, they cite sources, and network with their peers using comments. Students log in, manage their blogs appearance, upload/share projects and materials How does blogging relate to Bloom's Digital Taxonomy? Students use tags and use hyperlinked words to draw traffic to their blogs and provide additional information to readers. Students evaluate and reflect on their work by reading comments and evaluate others by providing feedback. Students are motivated to create because they have an outlet to share and publish projects including podcasts, movies, music, animation and artwork. Source

9. ISTE National Education Technology Standards (NETS) Associated with Blogging Creativity and Innovation Communication and Collaboration Digital Citizenship Technology Operations and Concepts http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students/nets-student-standards-2007.aspx

11. BLOG RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS Blog Options - This blog post explores many different sites for getting your classroom or district blogging. Other Classroom Blog Examples - List of blog examples from classrooms around the globe Educational Blogging - Classroom teacher explains how to start blogging with your classroom. Cybrary Man's - List of Educational Blogs for teachers