Daily Blog Challenge Day 178/365
Technology Tuesday
I have been having students in my 5th grade Media Class use the blogging platform KidBlog. I find this platform very user friendly and easy to use. It is also safe and I can limit who sees the posts. After a few months of KidBlog, I decided to try Blogger. My district is a Google Apps District, so it was very easy to use this platform. Part of my motivation to use Blogger was to give my students a platform to blog in a public space. My hopes were that the public forum would help motivate my students to proof their work better and to increase their level of writing. We connected with a class in Wisconsin and commented on each others posts.
I would like to do this again next year. Writing posts and commenting took more time than I was expecting, so it was a little sporadic. Next year I would like our comments and writing to be more frequent.
Blogger Permission Slip
How do you include blogging in your classroom? Thank you for reading.
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