Each One Teach One, Each One Reach One

My students are now blogging online! It’s quite exciting. We started by working through the blogging concept and process using paper blogs and a week later, we put those same ideas on our class blog.

But first, we needed to make sure we were safe! In fact, I first had to have multiple meetings with my principal, the technology teacher and integration specialist – understandably so! This is a big step when it’s the first time young students will be putting themselves out there. But I made a few assurances that using kidblog.org would be safe. First, I designed this go around so that all the students’ posts would only go live after I approved them. I also made certain that would be the case for all the comments. In addition, I created our classes blog so that the posts would only be viewable by our classmates when they are logged on. In other words, it’s a closed blog.

No one can see our posts, just us.

Read more:

http://theinspiredclassroom.com/2012/06/students-blogging-safely-online/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheInspiredClassroom+%28The+Inspired+Classroom%29