Possible Blogging Activities
For the Teacher
You may want to create a blog for yourself to do one of the following:
- Share teaching tips and best practices with other teachers
- Reflect on your teaching or classroom activities, and discuss insights gained
- Share teaching ideas, games, and other activities you have used in the classroom
- Reflect on a conference or other professional development activities
For Students
As a teacher you may want to create a blog for your students to do one of the following:
- Post all your class information such as assignments, reading material, deadlines etc.
o This can also be used to communicate with parents, who can access the blog so see what assignments are due when
- Post assignments based on readings that students can respond to
- Provide examples of class work, assignments, pictures of art work etc.
- Provide access to online readings that students can respond to
- Create a literature circle where small groups of students respond to something they have all read
- Create a common blog between your class/school and a class/school in another country – students can then view the postings of their peers in their language or the foreign language or both
- Ask students to comments on a topic discussed in class, using new vocabulary that was covered
- Publish examples of exemplary student work
- Create an online book club
- Post a video or picture and ask students to comment
You may also ask your students to create their own blogs to do one or more of the following:
- Learn how to create a blog on their own
o Many students may already be using blogs, but they are most likely not using it to critically reflect or analytically write on a topic
- Complete a writing assignment
- Write comments and posts on news items or areas of interest
- Post about their life experiences on a regular basis (maybe once a week)
- Create a writing portfolio with their work – can contain all writing material, even draft work to see progression
- As students to comment on the blogs or assignments of their peers
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