Get Your Students Blogging

Get your students started with blogging. Increase their writing skills and let their voices be heard!

Here are 2 different platforms for student blogs. Try them both and see which one fits you and your students better.

1. Weebly

From "The Art of Ed", see this article, Get Your Students Blogging in 3 Easy Steps. The author writes about writing in the art room, but her tips and ideas can be used with writing across the curriculum. She writes that writing is a great way to get students thinking more deeply about their work plus writing shows tangible evidence of students' learning. She shares a way to support student writing while also teaching technology skills and creating a digital portfolio. She includes a step-by-step student guide to setting up a weebly blog and an example of a rubric which she uses to evaluate students' writing on their blogs.

2. Easy Blog

From our own ESL teacher colleages at Thomasboro, Li Steward and Laura Bartels, comes a webinar on getting students started blogging with Easy Blog. Click here to view their great

webinar which gives directions for getting started plus ideas on using Easy Blog with your students.

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NOTE: I used Kidblog with 2nd grade students a few years ago. Take a look at that one, too.

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