By now, you have probably heard about the concept of blogging, or writing a "web log." If not, check out this short video from Common Craft, Blogs in Plain English.
Have you ever thought about setting up a space to enable your students to blog? Take a moment to read a blog post from prominent edu-blogger and practicing education administrator George Couros, as he outlines some key benefits of student blogging.
One of the tools I have found to be useful to support safe student blogging is Kidblog. Kidblog allows students to exercise digital citizenship within a secure, private classroom blogging space. From their website:
- Teachers have administrative control over all student blogs and student accounts.
- Your students’ blogs are private by default – viewable only by classmates and the teacher. Teachers can elect to make posts public, while still moderating all content.
- Teachers can add password-protected parent and guest accounts to the community at their discretion.
- Comment privacy settings block unsolicited comments from outside sources.
- Kidblog is fully COPPA compliant and does not require any personal information from students.
Check out this brief overview of Kidblog and learn how you can get started today!
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