How can teachers use blogs in the classroom??
Here’s a “Quick List” of ideas!
Use blogs for…
- Class debates
- Poetry collections
- Creative writing
- Novel or story reviews
- Commenting on essential questions
- Responding to photos of art, historical figures, and audio files of music or speeches
- A detective or suspense short story in installments (different blog posts build on the story over time)
- Group discussions about summer reading
- Writing journals or diaries
Ideas by Grade Level Clusters
- K-5: provide students with less-open-ended prompt or create class blog
- 6-8: let students be in charge of something, teach how to do a video or music piece entry
- 9-12: write more in depth responses, read classmates entries, respond to others
(From: Empower English Language Learners With Tools Form the Web, by Lori Langer de Ramirez)
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