Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Blogging Ideas for the Elementary Classroom

As the use of Blogging tools increases in the school setting and the use of Chromebooks are increasing as an acceptable student device, a marriage of the two seems to be a perfect storm.  Using Blogging on these devices allows the mobile user to Blog from anywhere there is a WiFi signal and the fact that Chromebooks have a full keyboard is very important to the writing process versus a smart phone.

Teachers can choose to allow students to create a Blog to show their learning. This applies to every subject, even Fine Arts. With the influx of accessible devices in the classroom, even itinerant teachers can quickly get students to Blog about their learning without needing a computer lab.

Then there are the teachers that use Blogging to get more from their student learning, to enhance their learning experience or to have students peer-teach other students not just in their class, but around the world. It acts like a text portal in that respect and with a good rubric, these Blogs are gradable.

You will need parent permission to use Blogger for the under 13 crowd, but there are a number of ways to Blog without using Blogger. You can use Google Classroom to pose questions and students can answer them there in a safe and secure environment and you can set it up that other students can respond to each other's post. You can also do this with a Google Site if the ability to respond to posts is not important.

There are solutions out there for the elementary-aged Blogger. If you are interested in learning more about setting up Blogging in your classroom, please look at this link.

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