Let's Blog About It

Last week I introduced blogging to my class. I heard about a site called kidsblog.org from a fellow teacher. I decided this would be a great activity to promote communication between my students, to encourage thoughtfulness about what we are doing in the classroom, and to promote writing. I told the students that our blog topics will pertain to things we are doing in the classroom. To encourage students to interact with each other on the blog, I asked them to include a question in their blog posts so someone else could answer. To include the writing component, I encouraged them to write in complete sentences and review what they write before publishing.

Once I went over the basics of blogging and modeled how to use the site, my students were off and running. I heard comments such as, "this is cool" and "I like posting about what I like in school" - music to my ears! I could barely keep up with them as they posted to our class blog (mind you, I do have 28 students who were all writing at the same time).

The students groaned and moaned when I said it was time to wrap up our blogging and move on to another activity. Yes, moaning about not getting to write more. Wow! Needless to say, the first day of blogging was a success and we will defintely be doing more of it.

Here are a few pictures of students' posts from our class blog.