Literacy Project

I am a full-fledged blogger! For my literacy project, I used Kidblog to create a class blog to use with my fourth graders. I began the project by discussing blogging with my students. Many of them already comment to each other using online tools, but having a class blog seems new to them. I decided that for now, I will pose a question of the week. For my first question, I asked my students to write about their favorite animal and practice posting it to their blogs. Each student posted on his or her own blog page. I am excited to get my students more involved in blogging, and they are beyond thrilled. My next steps for my students are to teach them how to add pictures and videos to their posts, as well as comment on each others' posts.

Check out my class blog!

Blogging in the Classroom

I am really excited to start a blog in my classroom, but I'm not sure yet how I want to get started. I looked at some sample blogs from Blogs and Blogging on our class site. Mrs. Schmidt has a great blog that seems like it would be very effective for parent communication, but she doesn't seem to have her students comment on her blog. Mrs. Alaniz has a more student-friendly blog, but her students don't seem to reply to many of her posts.

I think I would like to use my blog with students instead of just parent communication, but maybe it would be better to start by using to to just share information since it is new to me? I began setting up a blog on kidblog. It seems really easy to use so far. I'm not sure if I should have my students create their own blogs or just have them log in to the class page to comment on posts. Does anyone know how that works or have suggestions for blogging with fourth graders?