I’ve been asked a lot lately about ‘roles of users’ and what role should you assign student users on blogs.
Unfortunately there isn’t a simple answer because it’s a balance between:
How much responsibility you’re comfortable with assigning your students
School and District guidelines
Providing them with an environment that’s motivating
So I’ve decided to explain the different user roles [...]
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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 [...]
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The most common questions I’m asked and problems I have to deal with daily always relates to emails. To help with your email frustrations, let me explain the answers one at a time.
Do students need to use an email address?
It depends.
If you only want your students to write comments on the posts, you can [...]
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