Blogs, short for web-logs, are a form of online journal. You can use blogs for everything from updating your friends and family about your life, giving your own advice column, discussing your political views, or relating your experience in a topic of interest. You can host blogs with multiple contributors, or you can run your own solo show. Blogger is a product by Google (you just need your sewardschools.org address to get started!) There is an app for that!
To learn more, check out these tutorial links:
https://danielcraig.wikispaces.com/file/view/Blogger+Tutorial.pdf - Blogger Basics - PDF tutorial
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1623800?hl=en - Google's Blogger Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TDW5XW1TwY - YouTube Video Tutorial (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6p0YJdYBqU - YouTube Video Tutorial (Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2QvwgaECps - YouTube Video Tutorial
Examples:
(These were created in Edublog, the same thing can be done in Blogger, I was just aiming to show you how other teachers are using blogs in their classrooms.)
Class Blogs - used for passing information on to parents and students:
http://callahanmath.edublogs.org/ - HS Math Class
http://nstearns.edublogs.org/ - AP Language and Composition
http://digicom.edublogs.org/ - HS Tech Class
Blogging with students:
http://engten.edublogs.org/ - English 10 Class Blog
http://cauchonphotoclass.edublogs.org/ - HS Photography Class
In Your Classroom:
Use Blogs to help create a global audience for your students
Students may use blogging for: • responding to readings • maintaining a writer’s notebook or journal • posting personal, reflective, exploratory, or open entries (campus observations, “where I’m from,” pictures from home, or favorite book or piece of writing) • sharing student-generated research or links to class-related articles • exploring visual rhetoric • practicing writing o developing voice o working on titles, conciseness o considering tone o brainstorming, drafting, facilitating peer review • creating a showcase for final projects • crafting an on-line image or presence
Teachers may use blogging for: • communicating announcements and assignments in a format that students may perceive to be more “friendly” than CTools • sharing instructor-generated exercises or prompts • community building • creating a public place where student work can be “published”
To Share:
Copy your new Blogger web address and paste it into the completion form. You created the address for your blog when you created the it. Don't remember it? Go to your Dashboard and click view blog, copy and paste the web address from the address bar!
To learn more, check out these tutorial links:
https://danielcraig.wikispaces.com/file/view/Blogger+Tutorial.pdf - Blogger Basics - PDF tutorial
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1623800?hl=en - Google's Blogger Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TDW5XW1TwY - YouTube Video Tutorial (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6p0YJdYBqU - YouTube Video Tutorial (Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2QvwgaECps - YouTube Video Tutorial
Examples:
(These were created in Edublog, the same thing can be done in Blogger, I was just aiming to show you how other teachers are using blogs in their classrooms.)
Class Blogs - used for passing information on to parents and students:
http://callahanmath.edublogs.org/ - HS Math Class
http://nstearns.edublogs.org/ - AP Language and Composition
http://digicom.edublogs.org/ - HS Tech Class
Blogging with students:
http://engten.edublogs.org/ - English 10 Class Blog
http://cauchonphotoclass.edublogs.org/ - HS Photography Class
In Your Classroom:
Use Blogs to help create a global audience for your students
Students may use blogging for: • responding to readings • maintaining a writer’s notebook or journal • posting personal, reflective, exploratory, or open entries (campus observations, “where I’m from,” pictures from home, or favorite book or piece of writing) • sharing student-generated research or links to class-related articles • exploring visual rhetoric • practicing writing o developing voice o working on titles, conciseness o considering tone o brainstorming, drafting, facilitating peer review • creating a showcase for final projects • crafting an on-line image or presence
Teachers may use blogging for: • communicating announcements and assignments in a format that students may perceive to be more “friendly” than CTools • sharing instructor-generated exercises or prompts • community building • creating a public place where student work can be “published”
To Share:
Copy your new Blogger web address and paste it into the completion form. You created the address for your blog when you created the it. Don't remember it? Go to your Dashboard and click view blog, copy and paste the web address from the address bar!