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Blog2Learn Blogmeister is a good place to start for teachers who are new to blogging. It was founded by David Warlick of the Landmark Project. It was created to give teachers a significant amount of control over the web publishing activities of the students.
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“A blogging tool developed for teachers as an authentic publishing environment to promote the development of effective communication skills in students.” Quote Citation: David Warlick: Author of Blogmeister tool and “Blogmeister Instructions” ,
Blog2Learn Blog Title Name for your classroom General information and description.
Links Blog Article Title Teacher Entries on Left Sidebar
Student Blogs on Right Sidebar
Student Entries on Left Sidebar
Class Blog
Date Stamp
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Date Stamp
A comment that has been posted by a reader.
Student Blog
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Blog Title First learn the blogging Date Stamp, Time Stamp vocabulary. All of these may not be on Blogmeister but you Article Title (Blog Posts) need the terms for reading all Article’s Main Body blogs. Blog Author Comments On the slides that follow we Permalinks will highlight a few of these components to foster Calendar understandings. Archives Links or Blogrolls
Blog Components
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The last item written or posted is at the top of the blog. So it can be helpful to see beginning posts to understand the purpose.
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Look for an “About” link to determine who is writing the blog. If that fails go back to the first post to see if there is an introduction.
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Permalinks
Click this link
to see the permalink.
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Archives Archives are usually in month form listed on the sidebar. These are links to previous blog entries.
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Calendar This is an optional blog feature which usually shows the current month’s calendar dates.
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Comments allow readers to reply to a particular blog entry. They make the blog interactive and are very motivating to students.
Blog2Learn Now we are off to look at some good examples of educational blogs. Then we will create our own!!
Remember………..
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Blogmeister blogs First we will take a look at a few blogmeister blogs. Then we will look at blogs from other publishers so you can gain more ideas for content Elementary Mrs. Cassidy’s Classroom Blog http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337 Grade 1 and 2, Kathy Cassidy – teacher Mighty Writers 2006-07
http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=41233
Grade 3, Mark Ahlness - teacher 5B@MAS http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=40878 Mamaroneck (NY) Avenue School Grade 5 , Gordon Brune - teacher
Continue on for other levels
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Blogmeister blogs Middle English Corner
http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=17192
Grade 6 Language Arts, Julia Osteen - teacher Excellence and Imagination http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=2734 Grade 7 & 8, Clarence Fisher - teacher Cool Cat Teacher’s Student Blog http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=26813 Middle & High, Vicki Davis – teacher
High Bishop Dunne # http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=21053 Freshman Pre-AP English class, Kyle Stevens - teacher B.D.C.S. Room 406 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=22572 English III, English Language AP, English 4 - Daniel Wilson - teacher Science by Davis http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=67123 Ecology & Biology, S. Davis – teacher
Blog2Learn Improving Instruction Through the Use of Weblogs
Click on the graphic to go to a listing of blogs. You will go to a wiki containing Blogs across many categories. Click on the word ‘sidebar’ at the top right to open the listing.
Enjoy browsing! Get ideas! Share with Others! Then we will celebrate our learning by creating our own blogs!
http://adavis.pbwiki.com
Blog2Learn This slideshow was created for a blogging workshop for teachers. It was created by Anne Davis of EduBlog Insights http://anne.teachesme.com . If you have any questions she can be contacted at [email protected].