Creating an Outline for Blogging Unit Plan
So, you have decided to start blogging with your elementary school students.
- You know that that blogging is MORE than creating a static website collaboratively with your students.
- You are committed to creating a learning community, that allows students to document their work online, develop a dialogue with their classmates, collaborate in the process, reflect on their work and learning, connect their ideas and thoughts to others.
Kim Cofino’s blog post Blogging s Elementary is a great resource to look at. She has divided her lesson plan into five parts in order to introduce her students to blogging:
- What do we know about blogs?
- Understand basics of blogs
- Concept of blogging as writing
- Internet Safety
- Online Identity
- Bullying
- Responsible Behavior Guidelines
- Process of writing good comments
- Process of writing good blog posts
I am using Kim’s approach as a guideline. I really like the order of her lessons and feel that it was well thought through and will prove effective for us.
There are 4 areas to address and to be divided into separated lessons. I am not sure yet, how long each lesson will take and am hesitant to lock them into a certain amount of minutes.
Stay tuned for upcoming blog posts outlining each part of this process.
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What a fantastic resource. I would agree with it completely about the interactive possibilities. We only blogged in my classroom this year (2008) but it was such an organic experience and it evolved so much from what I first started… but that was one of the great aspects of it, rewarding and exciting, not just for me and also the students. We also were able to network with two classrooms that were studying the Maori culture in New Zealand and interact directly with them, that was amazing.
WOW!! Thank You for all of your hard work on this! I am new to Blogging with my class of 8th graders. I set up a Ning page for our class to use for math and I am teaching the students to post and Blog while answering questions on information they have learned in class. It is working for me and the students love having their own “social network” with just the students in our class. There is a lot of good blogging going on and I was hesitant to take it to the Web. After looking at your lessons and checking out the web links I am definitely going to take my students to the next level of on-line Blogging. Thank You!