I clicked on her link to kidblog.org and was soooo happy to finally find a way to set up my students with their very own blogs without them having to have an email account!! So many times I have found great sites to use, but it would require my students to have an email address. Since my district doesn't provide them with emails until high school and most of my students don't have computers at home, that is very difficult for me to do. KidBlogs.org let me set up my entire class with individual blogs and lets me keep them all in one place! I can preview their posts before they are published and I can approve comments as well!
I was so excited that I set up my class right away and we have already started posting!! I introduced blogging to my students this afternoon and showed them some great examples. We talked about the purpose of blogging and how it can be used for the learning environment. They were all so pumped up that we went straight to the lab and started typing away! I don't think I've seen them this happy in awhile!
We would love for you to swing by and read some of our posts! Please feel free to leave a comment. I set up our class so that I have to approve comments and you have to log in to leave a comment. I have set up parents with their own username and password, but I also created a guest username. You may chose "Team Turner Guest" from the drop down menu and enter "guest" as the password. Please make sure to leave your name in your comment so that we know who you are!
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