Today's periscope discussed how I incorporate blogs into my high school writing instruction. I described my senior writing classes and how I ease them into blogging by having them read some student blogs and other, professional blogs. I have some student blogs located here on my school webpage. In particular, I like to show them Eula's and Jess's blogs from the 2013 class because they are good examples of focused blogs. Eula chose to write about technology and Jess wrote about her passion, running.
Then I show students how to use blogger by demonstrating it on the board with a test page. It's important model the following skills:
1. creating a new post
2. typing and editing material
3. adding a link
Finally, I showed my rubric, which is linked here.
I think teaching blogging gives teachers a chance to show students how our audience can, and sometimes should be, bigger than just the people in the classroom. For this reason I share blogs with outside readership. I also think it lets students see how our voice and our register can make a difference in how effective our blogs are.
It's not fool-proof! Problems I still encounter with blogging: general resistance to publishing, getting students to revise, and making meaningful comments.
Got some good blogging advice? Comment away!
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