Blogs

**Why use blogs in the classroom? **
There are numerous educational benefits of blogs. Teachers can use them for classroom management, collaboration, discussion, and to organize student portfolios. Blogs are:  • Highly motivating to students, especially those who otherwise might not become participants in classrooms.  • Excellent opportunities for students to read and write.  • Effective forums for collaboration and discussion.  • Powerful tools to enable scaffolding learning or mentoring to occur

 Since we already have an ASES gmail account we will use the google blog template found at @https://www.blogger.com/startSign in with your ASES gmail account. Mine is kmoore@allsaintsftw.net         <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Here are a few links to successful classroom blogs: <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://edublogawards.com/2009/best-teacher-edublog-2009/ <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3752562 <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Tips for using blogs in the classroom: <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://www.onlinedegrees.org/tips-for-using-blogs-in-the-classroom/ <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://teachdigital.pbworks.com/blogging <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Still need help? Take a look at this video to help you create your own classroom blog. media type="youtube" key="aze0a4Row58?fs=1" height="385" width="480"