Blogging

=Blogging With Students=

Getting Started - Things to think about

 * will students post or will they e-mail you and you post - is a Wiki better?
 * Comment monitoring
 * How do I hyperlink?
 * Copyright - using Creative Commons - image source - flickr, yotophoto, openphoto
 * Posting - give it a title - the more creative the better - make your audience want to read
 * Questions for readers to answer at the end of the post - promotes a better conversation and comments
 * Blogging Tools - RSS feeds; Talkr - listen to blogs; Picknic; Podcasts - add audio to your post

Strategies Not just an on-line discussion tool - best when using unique features to supplement learning. Why Blogs vs. something else?
 * highlight individual contributions - more than a wiki
 * more flexible that threaded discussion forums
 * provide more room for expressing ideas than Twitter

Blogs provide:
 * individual space to write publicly
 * students can comment on each others work
 * teachers can participate but not command the stage to call out best work as a way of raising the bar
 * provide a visual track of students thinking through the course
 * students can analyze their thinking and see how their thinking has changed over the course
 * create an authentic voice see themselves as experts in a particular topic