Tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web 2.0 technologies and edublogs
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 [...]
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 all driven by personal ownership; class blogs have less sense of ownership than an individual blog.
Here are my tips for creating your student blogs.
#1 Choosing Usernames and [...]
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 [...]
