Blogging

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=Educational Benefits of Blogs and Wikis=
 * =Help students to communicate and collaborate=
 * =Motivate students to participate=
 * =Provide opportunities to read and write=
 * =Postings can be created by students any time, any place=

=Preparing the classroom for blogging=
 * =Determine school policy=
 * =AUP=
 * =Viewing student work online=
 * =Parental notification=
 * =Teach student safe online behavior=
 * =Set expectations=

**Resources**

 * ===Articles===

[|2006 K12 Online Conference]

 * ===[|Blog If You Love Learning]===
 * ===[|Global Literacy] Clarence Fisher===
 * ===[|Using Web 2.0 Tools in a Grade One Classroom]===

[|2007 K12 Online Conference]

 * ===[|Learn to Blog]===

Classroom Blogs

 * ===[|Kool Kowhai]===
 * ===[|Mrs. Muller's Class]===
 * ===[|Kathy Cassidy -- Grade one - Moose Jaw SK]===
 * ===[|Jody Hayes --Navigators 10 and 11 year olds in New Zealand for 2008, (previously Voyagers)]===
 * ===[|Manaia Kindergarten - New Zealand]===
 * ===[|Maria Knee's KinderKids]===
 * ===**[|Ms. Tondreau's Shining Stars]**===
 * ===**[|Room Nine 2007]**===
 * ===[|Room Nine 2008]===
 * ===[|Lisa Parisi's 5th Grade]===

Primary Blogs (Blogs used with children 5 to 8 years old.)
These are three main types of blogs:

[|Mrs. Cassidy's Classroom Blog] - Grade One - Moose Jaw, Canada [|Jody Hayes Classroom Blog] - Year One - Palmerston North, New Zealand [|Kinderkids] - New Hampshire [|Debbie Froehlich] - another kindergarten class. Just the teacher blogs. [|Room 9 Nelson Central's Blog] - Year 2/3 class from New Zealand - current [|Room One Mapua's Blog] - year 2/3 class from New Zealand - no longer used but good to look at as an example 60+ posts [|Tracy Muller's Kindergarten Class] - Only the teacher blogs [|1M Little Gems] - A class of Australian grade one students. [|Mrs. Lichtenwald's Class] - Grade One [|Ms. Schwichtenberg's Class] - Grade one - Commerce City, Colorado, USA
 * 1. The children each have their own blog which is linked from the teacher's blog or a central page.**

2. **The teacher has a blog and the children comment.** [|Ms. Ubell's Grade One Blog] - Moose Jaw, Canada

3. **The teacher and the students share a blog.** [|AllanahK's] Year Four/Five class in New Zealand

[|Emily's blog] - 4th grade student who blogs

2007 wiki the features classroom blogs

= **Fun Tools** =
 * [|Slide]slideshows, slide shows, photo sharing, image hosting, widgets, MySpace codes, web publishing, music
 * **[|Animoto]** Animoto is a web application that automatically generates videos using patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology and high-end motion design. Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.
 * [|One True Media] - add video or photos to your blog
 * [|Voki Home]

= Blogs =

=Blogging Engines= Setting up an EduBlog [|Set up] and [|How to Directions.] > Blogger "Next Blog" button at the top takes the reader to random blogs. I do not like this feature in the educational setting. "Remove and Hide NavBar in Blogger Widget Template
 * [|Blogmeister] This is an excellent blogging tool for primary students. All articles and comments have to be approved by the teacher before being posted. To set up a blog, you just need to email David Warlick (the creator).
 * [|21 Classes] This is a relatively new blogging tool.
 * [|Edublogs.org - free blogs for education professionals]
 * [|Tumblr]
 * [|Blogger: Create your Blog Now -- FREE]
 * It is possible to make that button go away.**

1. Sign in to Blogger. 2. On the Blogger Dashboard, click on the Layout link of the blog that you want to disable its NavBar. You can also click Customize on NavBar while visiting your blog.

Edit Blogger Layout 3. Under the Layout tab, click on Edit HTML tab to view the template’s HTML code.

Edit Blogger HTML 4. Search for the following line of code:

]]>

Before the line, add in the following line of code:


 * 1) navbar { display: none; }

or:

5. Click on SAVE TEMPLATE to make the change effective."
 * 1) navbar-iframe { display: none !important; }

Support Blogging - LOTS of links to student/class/teacher/principal/librarian and administrator blogs as well as edublogs. Well worth a bit of time to browse.

[|Great instructions for adding items to your Blogmeister blog]