Creating+Posts

=What do students write about in the blog?=


 * Content we are learning in class - (After we finish a lesson, my students will often say, "We should blog about this!" Imagine, having students //ASK// if they can write about what they are learning. Here is a post written after a [|Science lesson on light]. )


 * Topics that interest them personally - (One student has written posts about his [|community service] group call Boys in Action.)


 * A place they have visited - If a student wants to write a travel post, they must include educational facts about the place. For example, the writer must include relevant information about population, elevation, or the economy of a place. We are an educational blog, so each post must inform. We have travel posts from [|Washington, D.C.], [|Lake Tahoe], and [|Palm Springs]!


 * Tutorials! When students find a certain topic difficult, as was the case with [|quadrilaterals], we sometimes create a tutorial. Students can revisit the blog to refresh their memory about the subject.

=What kinds of movie projects do students produce?= Sometimes making a video is the best way to share information.


 * Here is [|our movie about our "visit" to Asia]. We had National Geographic's Traveling Map of Asia for a week. We created a movie!


 * Here are some presentations of our [|dioramas]. Rather than sharing their project in class, students recoreded a short video presentation. Students could then use the comment section to respond to their classmate's project.

The content of this blog is always educational. I look for opportunities for my students to write or share about what they are learning.

Although I use many web 2.0 tools and gadgets, I am constantly thinking about what brings educational value to this site for my students rather than what brings flash.

Here is a link to a blog post about [|how we get a story written and published on our blog.]