It is now time to join in on the bi-annual student blogging challenge!
This challenge is all about having fun, improving blogging and reflective writing skills, and building readership and connections with a global audience.
Last year, the two challenges included thousands of students from over 15 countries around the world!
What is the [...]
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Join The Student Blogging Challenge Now – Starts Mid September!
What advice would you give for blogging with ESL/EFL students?
Can you help?
I’ve been asked for advice for blogging with ESL/EFL students.
I’m sure that ESL/EFL educators and their students will provide the best advice. So I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Larry Ferlazzo’s Thoughts
And to get the conversation started Larry Ferlazzo (from Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day……For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL) has kindly shared [...]
What You Wanted To KNOW About Student Blogging
Richard Byrne and I co-hosted an ISTE Unplugged session on blogging at ISTE 2010 in Denver.
Thanks to everyone who submitted their blogging questions and here’s my responses — for those who were unable to attend!
I’ve focused my responses to student blogging and will do a follow up post on the general blogging questions.
What sort of [...]
Inspiring Example of embedding lessons as videos on a Class Blog
Meet Tammy – a high school science teacher with an outstanding class blog which you can visit here.
Tammy serves as an inspiration to all of us that are interested in creating an online environment that is a natural extension of our classrooms.
She is amazing when it comes to recording her daily classroom notes and embedding [...]
The 10 Most Important Things To Figure Out About Blogging
Nathan Toft’s response “this must be one of the top ten things to figure out about blogging” to my How To NOT Have Problems Uploading Photos And Using Up Storage Space post has me thinking.
What would my “top ten things to figure out about blogging” list be for new bloggers? And how would my [...]
Can You Help Us With The Student Blogging Challenge?
This post was written by Sue Wyatt for the Student Blogging Challenge.
Well, we are now into Week 4 of the March 2010 Student Blogging Challenge.
Students have been creating their blogs and making it their own by adding widgets and avatars; they have written about their country, state or town and many have visited other class [...]
Formal style, proper grammar and good spelling ARE important in student posts and comments! Do you agree?
We’ve been having interesting conversations in the comments on Kathleen McGeady’s guest post Teaching Commenting Skills on ‘is a formal structure or style for writing comments necessary?’
There’s always differing opinions on this type of topic.
So I’d love us to debate it in more detail while expanding the conversation to include blogs posts.
That way we’ll all gain [...]
Step 3 – Teaching Commenting Skills & Etiquette (Guest Post by Kathleen McGeady)
We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.
Your third step is to teach commenting skills & etiquette.
It’s my great pleasure to introduce our guest blogger, Kathleen McGeady, who provides important advice on teaching commenting skills (regardless of the age of your students).
About our Guest Blogger
Kathleen [...]





