Sunday, July 27, 2008
Blogging with Students
I'm really interested in using blogging with my class this upcoming year, but I'm a bit nervous about it too. Have any of you used it with you class and if so, how did you go about it? Did you have to get special permission from parents? Did you just set up the blog and let them respond to your posts or...? Thanks for sharing your ideas! :^)
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I've done it both ways. I post and they can respond and then I did a small project where the students wrote posts but I did get specific permission for each student.
although I haven't done it, most people that I have discussed the idea with, say they started out first letting kids repond to questions...set parameters of how they would sign their comments...made the comments where they have to be approved before they show.
as for parent permission...it's about half & half, but i do talk with lots of people outta state.
It's always better to err on the side of caution I think in this case...but if they are not posting their full names, etc. it shouldn't be an issue
I haven't had the opportunity to blog with students, but think this is a great idea for older students. This would be great for a creative writing class!
I have an approach that worked well for me.
I had students get permission from parents (signed permission slips) and then we used Blogger. I had a three tiered approach. The first were private blogs that students shared only with me. The next were ones that they shared with the class (by setting it to private and adding the class on the permission). The final is the class blog (socialvoice.blogspot.com)which is geared toward the public.
I set paramaters for comments and this year I'll be working with more ELL students, so I'll add some word stems and sample comments for them to modify as well.
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