By Alissa Blackburn
As a high school English teacher, I wanted to infuse writing without my students shutting down on me. I was striving to find something that would tap into my students’ fixation with social media. I turned to blogging. For the last six weeks, I have been running my class through KidBlog. I have found creative ways to be a contributor/facilitator to their writing, and it is a non-threatening environment and very conducive to the quiet, more inhibited student.
KidBlog is user friendly, free, and requires just a little investment of your time. You create your class, select your theme, upload your picture/avatar, adjust your privacy settings, and add your students. You choose whether to approve, delete, reply publicly, or reply privately. You are able to post videos, pictures, add tags and categories, filter posts by student, give instant feedback, and even link posts to another one of your class blogs if you want to use the same assignment.
You can now be the master of your blogs or be brave and allow your students to create their own blogs. Of course, all of this starts with some serious lessons in Netiquette.
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