Blogs

toc =Welcome to the Blogosphere=
 * where writing for an authentic audience is the aim**

Blogging is an exciting tool for students and teachers. This workshop is designed to introduce you to blogging with your students, start your own blog, and continue to learn from bloggers all over the world.

What is a blog?
"A Weblog is an easily created, easily updateable Website that allows an author (or authors) to publish instantly to the Internet from any Internet connection." [|Will Richardson]

Why Blog?
Blogging promotes verbal, visual, and digital literacy and involves:
 * An authentic audience
 * Authentic projects
 * A publishing outlet
 * Collaboration

What are blogs used for?
You and your students can design and develop blogs for: Helen Barrett's blog: [|E-Portfolios for Learning]
 * Journals
 * Portfolios
 * Newsletters

Examples
[|Mrs. Cassidy's Blog] - First grade [|Duck with a Blog] - Second grade [|Livingston High School Reading Blog] [|Math Blog] - Professional practice teacher's blog [|Darren Kurpotowa] - Student math blogs

Tools
[|21classes] - [|Tutorial] [|Class Blogmeister] - [|Tutorial] [|Blogger] - [|Tutorial] [|WordPress]

What is blogging?
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Why let our students blog?
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RSS
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