Teacher tips
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lgeo r is a free, easy to use blogging tool for teachers wishing to set up class or
personal blogs. It provides step by step instructions and templates as support. The most important thing with blogging is to plan your blog purpose and structure before creating your blog. Class blogs intended to inspire extended student 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. You can organise blog settings so that you approve every student comment before it goes live, if you wish to. This vetting process is called blog moderation.
• Registration: B go r requires registration, using a gmail address. Sign lge
up to gmail, if you do not already have an account. Students are required to be 13 years of age or older to sign up to create a blog.
• 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 B
g embedded or hyperlinked resources should be cited. • Create a blog: Name the blog, Choose a template and B go r will create lge
your blog site. In Posting, create posts [these are the main category pages], edit your pages, set comment moderation. In Settings, write the description of your blog and establish your blog permissions. In Layout, change your template, add and re-arrange your page elements, and change colours and fonts.
• Save and share: Show/email the URL of your published blog to students, so that they can post comments in response to your posts. Discuss these comments as a class, so students can celebrate their writing.
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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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