What is Edublogs ?

Edublog is a safe, secure, and reliable blog hosting site for teachers and students. Edublogs is dedicated to hosting educational material, and is safe for the school environment. Under Edublogs, educators can monitor students through an administrative account. Edublog also offers several options specific for the classroom teacher, as a way to help manage . Some of these options include: sharing materials, news, downloads; facilitate online discussions, class publications that students can public, replace newsletter with to help parents keep in touch; sharing ; lesson plans; students are attached to teacher blog, creating blogs for groups (teams, sports, events, etc); as well as integrating pictures and videos to the blog and presentations. Your students can view your blog as well as their classmates. Each of your students can add comments to your post to ask questions, or can add comment on a friends post to tell them "I like your idea!." From the teacher side, each of the students can have quick feedback on their work.

How to use your Edublog....

Features of the dashboard:

Adding a new post to your page is simple!

How to use your Edublog for Literacy:

To use Edublogs in your in your literacy curriculum:

1. After teaching a reading lesson, you can have students add a post as part of a response to the day's lesson.

2. If students still have questions about something that happened in the reading lesson or something that puzzled them about the book, they can post the question on their blog and start grappling with a possible answer. Other students can also post on their classmates' questions and start supporting each others learning.

3. Instead of having a reading log that students often forget at home or at school, students can put their nightly reading log on a separate page and add posts to that page. On each post the students can write down the name of the book, how many minutes they read, and a short description of what they read. Using the word count feature, they can write a minimum length, which keeps students from just writing two or three word descriptions. They can even add a picture of the book!

4. Students can virtually see the assignment sheet and respond to the questions on their page. No more "my dog ate my homework" or "I forgot my homework folder at home" excuses!

5. The site can be a great place for students to start collecting ideas about research papers. Have them make a new page for the research project and as they find information add new posts to the page.

6. As the teacher you can create a newsletter and link your newsletter to exemplary student blog work. This newsletter can be accessible to all the students and parents. The students could even add their own work to the newsletter.

Literacy Edublogs Example:

http://scscolorado.edublogs.org/

(link to an example edublog set up for use in a literacy curriculum)

On this site we created you will see sample posts with assignment sheets and a sample class newsletter.