Taking your class blog up a notch!

Many of us have classroom blogs for sharing the learning, communicating with family, as a teaching tool in the classroom and as a motivational tool through the use of a wider audience (need any more reasons to start one?).

Here's a site which, when registered, will link your class with three others in a bid to increase motivation and get some sharing, commenting happening on a large scale. Fill in the registration form, quickly because I think they may be starting soon, and you will be connected with other classes world wide. Each class has a turn to be the focus for reading and commenting for a week.

Give it a go!

Blogging in the Classroom

Lots of us are starting blogs for our class. They're a great way to share our learning, to increase the engagement and motivation of our students and also a safe way to launch our class into the cyber world through links and images.

Here's one started at Myross Bush by Evelyn. She's using the side bar to store online links for maths groups, has some photos embedded in a post, using picturetrail and some links to some spelling games.

(Click on the image to have a closer look.)

Have you started a blog? Check out this video below that explains what a blog is - and answers - 'What's all the fuss?'

What's the big deal about blogs?

Lots of us are using or thinking of starting blogs - for our own professional reflections, our students, our classrooms and schools. Here's a great video from Commoncraft that is THE BEST explaination I've seen. - it's well worth the watch, even for your students!