Shame BlogBooker doesn’t work for blogger as it does all posts, comments etc.

Hope that your students share lots of photos and stories with you over the holidays.

It looks like Blogbooker is available for WordPress or LiveJournal systems.

I just used a different online site called ExpertPDF Components to convert a page from my Blogger account to a PDF. The PDF was simple to make and included the post and the comments.

In my third grade class, each child assembled a binder of all of the writing projects we’ve done throughout the year. (You know, the kind written on paper!) I think I am going to allow students to pick one blog post to make into a PDF that I will print for them to put in their binder.

I’ll share the online link with parents and encourage them to save any other posts their child would like to print as a PDF on their home computer.

Here is the online PDF-maker site:
http://www.html-to-pdf.net/free-online-pdf-converter.aspx

This is the first year I have done a classroom blog, and I was planning on leaving it open and using it next year, too. I told my students if they would like to submit stories and jpgs to me over the summer, I would post them.

Linda Yollis

There seems to be two main groups (if that is the correct word?). Those that want to maintain tight control of the blogs over the holidays so don’t want any risk of bad comments or posts — and are after a solution to remove all ability to write on the blogs.

Then there are those teachers who want to encourage students to continue blogging during the holidays if they choose. Their thoughts still are of who is responsible but they are also thinking about what to do with blogs that students don’t want. Do you delete the old blogs? Do you just keep the old blogs but stop access to them until such a time the students change their minds.

They are also thinking what is a nice memento for the students to have?

I keep the comments “live” but all keep admin rights and rss feeds on all the blogs from my own account to monitor. Presumably there’ll come a point in the future where the numbers are out of control, but with the luxury of only two or three blogs per group that’ll take a while! I expect at that point I’ll “lock” down the old blogs and disconnect myself from them.

After the lesson on comment moderation most of our learners opted for the “Commentor must have one post approved” option which has lead to very little spam without restricting the usual posters too much.

Wow! You’ve a task. How many blogs? Could be a mammoth job putting that in the right position.

Can you summarise highlights from the blogs and post the ‘collage’ up on a read-only site? You’d need to be careful to include all, and tastefully, but it may be possible. Seems an honourable thing you’ve chosen to address and sort out. Good on you and good luck with that mission.

Catchya later

However all comments, if not moderated, are sent to the email address of the person who writes the post. So if you changed the student’s email address to the parents they will receive all comment notifications.

While I know initially it is hard work to set up but I would always have all student post and blog feeds in my Google reader; in their own separate folder. That way I could act quickly if any thing inappropriate happens. Since Google Reader feeds through quite fast.

So when holidays come I’ve already have them in my reader; most of the postings will probably drop off so you will be left with just a small number to check occasionally.

I’m not sure how many comments I will be able to get on this post because I think most people think they are good questions but aren’t sure of the answers and are hoping others give ideas.

Also when you archive the blogs on the Trainee blogs are you keeping the blogs live? Or do you close off all comments? I really like having a page with links to all the former blogs.