[English] Blogs for senior english students

[Jo McLeay]

Hi Lillian, 
I have been blogging with middle years students for a
few years and I agree with Andrew. Have a look at some
of the Year 7 blogs on
http://mrsmac2022.learnerblogs.org or Year 9 blogs on
http://jomcleay.com/year9/ The students' blogs are on
the blogroll of these two blogs. I think it's a great
idea and James Farmer who runs learnerblogs is a great
support. I definitely recommend his free service to
educators (although I'm trying out edublogs premium -
a paid service - for the year 9s.) I would love to
follow your students' discussions of Macbeth as my
year 11s have just finished the play. I haven't tried
blogging in the senior years but I plan to in Semester
2. Maybe we could have our students read each others
blogs and comment.
Looking forwards to hearing more about your work.

--- Andrew Bawden
<andrew.bawden at overnewton.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi Lillian,
>  
> I suggest www.learnerblogs.org as at www.blogger.com
>  students can
> access other people's blogs which
> could contain objectionable material.
>  
> Andrew Bawden
> Overnewton Anglican Community College
> 
> ________________________________
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> From: english-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of
> Steven Bird
> Sent: Thu 5/07/2007 1:39 PM
> To: VCE English Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [English] Blogs for senior english
> students
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/4/07, Leptos, Lillian L
> <leptos.lillian.l at edumail.vic.gov.au>
> wrote: 
> 
> 	Hi
> 	I've been reading about webblogs and would like to
> set one up
> for my year 11 students to communicate their ideas
> on Macbeth. Does
> anyone know how I can go about this. I know my way
> about a computer, but
> don't really know how to set up a blog (software,
> publishing on the web
> etc). Very grateful for any advice or guides I can
> follow. 
> 
> 
> 
> I recommend blogger.com <http://blogger.com/>  --
> its incredibly easy to
> set one up, whether on your own site or hosted at
> blogger.com
> <http://blogger.com/> .
> You can choose from a variety of styles, and even
> email your posts and
> have them show up on the blog. 
> 
> Steven Bird
> http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/
> 
> 
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