Comments on: Student Blogging…..How Do You Do What You Do?

By: wow

wow — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:12:26 +0000

hehe

By: wow power leveling

wow power leveling — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:44:12 +0000

Wow, this is very useful.. Thanks for sharing this and hoping I could implement it too.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Mon, 11 May 2009 05:23:12 +0000

@davieafreeman and lucja — apologise for taking so long to respond as I’ve been reflecting on if I should follow up with a post that explains how to break it apart into simple steps. Still haven’t decided. You might also like to read my follow up post where I share some of the information from comment on this post. Plus I suggest you read through the comments on that post because there has been interesting conversations happening.

By: dthompsonsd

dthompsonsd — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:20:13 +0000

Thank you for the tips! I’m getting ready to jump in, and your advice is very much appreciated!

By: lucja

lucja — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:47:09 +0000

I learn how to use a blog and incorporate it to my IT curriculum. I am open to any ideas and suggestions – I am a new teacher.

By: davieafreeman

davieafreeman — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:13:59 +0000

I am new to the blogging community. I plan to fully incorporate this into my classes for the next school. If anyone can share how to successfully complete this task, it would be great.

Thanks

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:10:36 +0000

@sgracew re- your questions “Do you pre-screen all posts? Is there a service that will screen postings? Do all students participate, etc.? All information for a “newbie” would be greatly appreciated.” That really depends on the teacher. Some teachers will set up the blogs so that all student posts can only be approved by the teacher while others are happy for students to post them knowing that they can always remove a post.

Gets back to what you are comfortable with. I recommend you start with a class blog where you write the post and they just comment. As you get more comfortable you can add students to the blog and get them writing posts. Just start slowly and feel your way. Connect up with some of the class blogs of similar age and watch how they do what they do.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:39:48 +0000

@dthompson.sd I agree with Teresa there is so much they could write on a class blog about the how process and it could be fun. They could share basic facts about worms, how waste products are decomposed and they could get other schools to drop past and talk about their programs.

Definitely exciting and please let us all know if you need help!

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:37:15 +0000

Apologies for taking so long to respond to this comment but we had 24 hours where comment notifications went sent and I think your comment was written then.

Threaded comments is one of my most favorite features because you can respond easily back to each person. It only becomes hard when a new comment is placed somewhere in the thread and you have to search.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:34:15 +0000

Hi Wilson, the student blogging challenge has almost ended however they do have a blog that continues called Student Friends blog.

If you keep a close eye on this blog you will find up most of the up and coming events.

My advice if your students are going to have the laptops soon is to start blogging and using this different technology yourself for your own learning as that will help you when you use it with students.