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 [...]
Step 3 – Teaching Commenting Skills & Etiquette (Guest Post by Kathleen McGeady)
Step 9 – Add Your Student Blogs To A Folder In Google Reader
We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging..
This step is to add your student blogs to a folder in Google Reader to make it easier to read their posts.
Why Make it Easier to Read Posts?
It’s important that you and your students are able [...]
Step 4 – Help Parents Connect With Your Class Blog
We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.
This step is to help parents and family members connect with your class blog.
Educating Parents and Students About Blogs
Blogs are a totally foreign concept to most students and parents.
It’s important to educate them so they appreciate the [...]
Step 5 – Add Students To Your Class Blog So They Can Write Posts
We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.
This step is to add your students as users to your class blog so they can write posts on it.
Why Add Students As Users To Class Blogs?
Normally when a class blog is initially set up you’ll be [...]
Step 8 – Add your student blogs or links to helpful websites to your blogroll
We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.
This step to add your student blogs to your blogroll (if you have student blogs).
Alternatively you can follow these directions to add links to helpful websites.
What is a Blogroll?
A blogroll is a list of links that [...]
Step 6 – Add A Visitor Tracking Widget To Your Blog Sidebar
We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.
This step is to add a visitor tracking tool to your blog sidebar.
Why Use Visitor Tracking Widgets?
It’s likely that your blog gets visitors from around the world.
But unless you find ways of displaying visitor numbers and [...]
Step 2 – Set Up Your Blogging Rules and Guidelines
We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.
This second step is to set up blogging rules and guidelines on your class blog.
Why Have Blogging Rules and Guidelines?
An important part of using an online tool with your students is educating them on appropriate online behavior. Just [...]
Step 1 – Create A Class Blog
The next Student Blogging Challenge starts in March September, 2010 and this time we’ve decided there are tasks that need to be done BEFORE your class actually takes part in the challenge.
So we’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.
Our first step is to create a [...]
Step 7 – Setting Up Student blogs
We’ve designed a series of nine steps, with how-to info, to help you with your class blogging.
This step is to set up student blogs.
Why have student blogs?
Class blogs are an excellent starting point. But the most incredible outcomes are observed when students are progressed onto their own individual blogs.
Why? Human nature!
As individuals we’re [...]





