Blogs (N) for Collaborative Group Work, Literacy Groups, Writing

Collaborative Group Work, Literacy Groups, Writing to Learn, Questioning, and Classroom Talk (N): Blogs

Want students to have an vehicle to discuss ideas outside of face-to-face classroom conversations?

Blogging may be the answer for you.

There are a variety of free blog service providers online.

If you'd like to ensure the privacy of you/your students' blog posts, please consider activating the blog feature in a ning (www.ning.com or www.edgecome.ning.com for EECHS staff/students).

You may find a greater degree of functionality with Google's blogger service.


Blogger allows you to publish Google Docs (Part of the Apps suite) to your blog with one click. In addition, Google's blogger can be linked to facebook and twitter to get your message out to as many people as you would like. 

Blogger also has Access Controls to restrict unwanted visitors to a blog.


An introduction tutorial can be found here:


http://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g

Blogs are reccomended by the NC New Schools Project as a way to integrate technology on a novice level to add meaning to Collaborative Group Work, Literacy Groups, Writing to Learn, Questioning, and Classroom Talk.

Need help integrating this technology? Feel free to contact your technology facilitator and/or the author.