PUBLIC MARKS from knann with tags teachers & classroomblogs

A Lesson plan aimed at enabling students to write a class blog policy which emphasizes safety.

Middle school math teacher with a classroom blog.....This is an older post on safe blogging guidelines. Click the blog title to the most recent posts.

This webquest is designed to introduce elementary students to blogging. Its intention is to get teachers and students thinking about using blogging to develop literacies in the elementary school. The goal is to use blogs to engage students in thinking and blogging about their learning and what it means to them. Topics for the blogging posts will be pulled from the classroom curriculum. A focus on the Six Traits of Writing and Blooms Taxonomy will be used as students blog/write to learn and apply what they are studying in their class curriculum. Although written for elentary school students, the content could easily be adapted for middle school.

There are many resources on the web addressing the issues of guidelines and responsibilities while blogging in education. According to Anne Davis, one of the very best is the AHS Blogging Policy developed for the use of weblogs at Arapahoe High School.

A grade 7 classroom blog with a variety of posts to stimulate reading, writing, and learning. The teacher and each student has their own blog. This front page must be a feed of all the most recent posts from the blogroll. This is an easy way for keeping track of who is doing what.

Grade 10 Calculus Blog where students summarize the class lesson. Talk about make math and learning visible;;;This one is in the Scribe Hall of Fame! Take a look at the comments!

Grade 8 math teacher using a blog as a homework site and enrichment center, He uses a variety of Web 2.0 tools to support student learning in math. Students take turns as scribes responsible for posting to the blog.

Another example where the qualities of writing are explicitly discussed and the sole purpose of the student blogs is to improve this skill.

This site corresponds to the BLOG WRITE link It’s second nature for us and our students to engage others in dialogue f2f. Commenting has great potential for extending learning and deepening understanding through meaningful dialogue in the blogosphere. Through an examination of powerful and significant comments, and exploration of suggestions for nurturing and guiding comments, meaningful online dialogue can become second nature to us and our students too.

Student audio and video podcasts about events around the school. There is an emphasis on sports....

This blog is interesting as the teacher explicitly discusses the six traits of writing when composing blog posts. She gives guidelines for making comments as well. Take a look at the students' own blogs with their posts on this topic. Take Derrick' Documents (left column) for example. He has a great post where he links each of the six traits to a classmate's blog as an exemplary user of the trait. Check it out! P.S. OHMYGOODNESS...thought this was a high school blog! These are 5th graders!

High school blog... Note all the comments and the handling of one inappropriate comment by a classmate.