Library: The Sweetest Berry

Edublog has its own helpful blog (The Edublogger, natch) and I’ve been poking around it looking for tips about setting up blogs with kids. I found this post and comment thread very interesting: “Share Your Blogging Experience.” Seeing examples of real blog projects with students is really inspiring and it makes classroom blogging seem much more achievable. I’ll definitely be referring to this in the fall for examples of successful projects when I’m talking to teachers about how to set up blogs with their classes. I also love this quote from Ken Allan’s comment: “Writing forces learning.”

There seems to be a consensus among the comments that blogging is a highly motivational tool for students, but there can be problems with sustaining the conversation and with access to the internet. (I’m going to be thinking about those issues the rest of this week, as well as the nitty-gritty of getting blogs set up and managing a class-worth of bloggers.) There’s a great blog checklist to get the action started, a link to a vivid example of “letting the conversation happen,” and LOTS of blogs-in-action.