Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

This time, the class blog challenge is all about getting your pupils to write their first post. Please remember to share a link once you’re done!

The Class Blog Challenge explained (with links to all posts in the series).   So now you’ve set your objectives and set up your class blog so it’s time to get writing.   Getting to grips with it Before you even think about using the blog with the kids, you’re going to want to get grips with it yourself so you can answer all their zillions of questions and make sure they get the most out of their early blogging experiences.   There’s loads of fancy stuff you can do when writing blog posts, and if you’re so inclined, feel

A step by step guide to setting up your class blog using edublogs.org a free and easy to use platform based on wordpress

The Class Blog Challenge aims to help you get started with, or improve your class blogging. This session looks at setting objectives for your blog.

Have you thought about class blogging but not sure how to start? If so then then class blogging challenge could be right up your street

Class blogging is becoming ever more popular as a fantastic way of encouraging young people to write with a purpose, for a real audience and receive genuine feedback.  At its best it’s assessment for learning in action.  So what’s not to love?   Well, although it’s really simple to set up your class blog,  sometimes it can be a bit hard to think what to get your class to blog about.  Well look no further.  Here are a few ideas to get you going and I hope you’ll contribute some of your own too:   Diary Style Blogging Asking students

I set out to try and find some answers. How can I encourage YOU to comment on MY blog. And this is what I came up with

Ten ideas to help you write popular, readable blog posts

Make your new year’s resolution to start up a blog for your class Blogging is an exciting way to get your class working together and fully engaged.  I recently discussed 10 Reasons You Should Get Your Class Blogging and the response has been great.  It seems that lots of teachers have decided that their new year’s resolution is to get their class blogging.  But not everyone is sure how. Out of the Box vs Bespoke You can spend a lot of time developing a bespoke blog using wordpress.org or similar, but the impression I’m getting is that the majority of

Class blogging is the future – and here are ten reasons why!