What will be your student guidelines? If you need some inspiration, check out Kim Cofino's student blogging guidelines.
Which blogging tool would best suit your needs? As I was making this decision for my own professional blog, I turned to Richard Byrne for some advice. Check out his comparison of five popular blogging tools, including Blogger, EduBlogs, and KidBlog.
What might your first few lessons on blogging entail? You might want to cover what makes a quality blog, online safety, composing quality posts and commenting on others' blogs. For detailed lesson ideas, skim over Kim Cofino's descriptions of her first five blogging lessons.
How are you going to make the blogs interactive? Will you have students respond to each other's posts? If so, you'll want to teach your students how to compose a quality comment. This short video (also embedded below) will likely be a hit in your own classroom as you hear from other students about how to leave a meaningful comment on a classmate's blog.
And, finally, if you're looking for some topics of what students might blog about, here are some ideas:
- post a prompt
- the week in review
- critique a site
- comment on current events
- continuing stories
- share recipes (as you study world languages and difficult cultures)
- question blog (similar to a KWL chart)
- report on a field trip or virtual event
- role-play a point of view
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