Teacher tips
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support structure for teachers. The most important thing with blogging is to plan your blog purpose and structure before creating your blog. Blogs intended to inspire extended writing need to provide stimulus questions that hook students and provoke them to write. Much teaching about issues or novels occurs in the class, away from the blog. Teach students to respond to each others’ ideas on the blog, as well as posting their own comments. Blog owners can organise blog settings so that they approve every comment before it goes live. This vetting process is called blog moderation.
• Registration: Eu gl s does not require an email address or any personal dbo
information from teachers or students on signup. Teachers can set up students blogs within their account in E
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moderates every comment. Alternatively, students can establish their own blogs. IT IS CRITICAL that students do not use their surnames in their user name, or supply any identifying details in their blogs.
• Cybersafety: Find out from school records which students in your classes are under a media ban, generally due to a custody dispute. In addition, check parental blanket media permissions lodged with the school to see if any student is not covered or if any parent has refused permission. Provide alternative tasks for these students.
• Copyright: Remind students to use their own photos or Creative Commons images in E
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• Create a blog: Choose the Free option. Choose a title and URL for your blog and E
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Create posts [these are the main category pages], create your pages, establish blog permissions and comment moderation settings.
• Save and share: Show/email the URL of your published class blog to students. Discuss blog comments as a class, so students can celebrate the writing they have done on the class blog.
• Sample student blog:
http://emilysblog3s.edublogs.org dbos will create your blog site. Choose a theme for the blog. dbos. The source URL and creator’s name of
Other worlds: To infinity and beyond with digital tools in the middle years by Lizzie Chase with S Bowes, D Ivanek, Y Liu, J Riley, J Starink
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