Teachers Guide: Setup and Configure A Student Blog in 4 Steps
Blogging is nothing new to students, but students blogging as a part of class is. It can be a daunting task to any teacher, especially those that aren’t exceptionally tech savvy. To remedy that, we have put together an easy-to-understand guide for setting up a teacher administered student blog. The goal of the tutorial is to guide any teacher through the process of setting up their first blog for students, and steps them through how to gain the most out of security.
This can be an amazing opportunity, and for children who’ve grown up surrounded by broadband, smartphones and social networking, the concept of blogging is probably nothing new to them. By allowing them to express themselves in class the way many of them do at home, it allows for a greater sense of creativity and academic freedom. And with academic freedom comes great learning opportunities and a wonderful link to what your students are thinking. Many blogs hosting services are free, but if you opt to go on your own and host it yourself, you may run into some budgeting concerns with more expensive hosts. To manage this, budgeting software is always available.
Guide Summary
- Safety precautions
- Signing up for an edublogs.org blog
- Helping students sign up with edublogs.org
- Inviting students to post to the blog
- Setting students as contributors
- Configure settings to ensure that everything being published is approved by you
bloggingateachersguide.pdf – You will need Adobe Reader to view this document.
Thanks goes to Sue R. for her help in this guide. Check out her blog.
Thank you!! I’m starting blogging with students and this kind of step-by-step is just the kind of thing I was hoping to run across. I’ve started the edublogs process but this should make the last few steps much clearer.
This is a great starter. I just started my blog, and have yet to use it with students, although I plan to soon. I want to make sure I have all the necessary permissions taken care of before I begin. I’m so glad I took the web 2.0 training that was offered at school, although I wish more teachers were aware of these tools.
Nice job!
I think this is a great beginners guide to blogging for teachers. It points out solutions for the real problems that many classroom teachers often get roadblocked with – frequently without much explanation as to why they can’t do a blog with their kids.
I think this could be considered a finished resource, but if you’re looking for feedback I would say:
1) Include a sentence or two about why you prefer edublogs over other tools you might have considered.
2) Include copyright info with attribution info. Can I share this?
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