[Yr7-10it] Blogging for Students

[Gail A Casey]

Hi everyone,
Over the last few years I have moved from the classblogmeister
community of school bloggers:
http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=97161
(this I found much easier to moderate and monitor because each student
blog was controlled by the teacher)

to Nings - yes I know nings now cost money but this can be as little
as a packet of white board markers ($20).

Last semester I used http://ghs2010.ning.com/
to set up a Maths help including video help tutorials that both myself
and my students made. They also took screen clips of their excel
graphs and google scketch up projects. Each student has their own blog
in a Ning and the teacher can setup a number of controls. examples can
be found at:
http://ghs2010.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?user=3upcu0w7tm3qn
http://ghs2010.ning.com/group/mathswebsites?
http://ghs2010.ning.com/group/mathshelp
http://ghs2010.ning.com/group/googlesketchyupinmaths

http://ghs2010.ning.com/forum/topics/ning-samples-and-work-from

This student was in both my maths and IT class -
http://ghs2010.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?user=09lkq6s7gt81t

Hope this helps
Cheers
Gail Casey

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:38 AM,  <mppascoe at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> For my Year 9 ICT class, I want to have them Blog about each of their
> completed projects, including a screenshot of their finished product.
>
> I was hoping to use Google Blogger, but can't get it working on the school's
> network.
>
> We have unblocked the following URLs:
>
> http://www.blogger.com/
>
> http://3.bp.blogspot.com/
> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/
> http://4.bp.blogspot.com/
>
> as well as these pages for their individual Blogger Accounts:
>
>  <http://ppa2011student01.blogspot.com/>
> http://ppa2011student01.blogspot.com/
>  <http://ppa2011student02.blogspot.com/>
> http://ppa2011student02.blogspot.com/
>
> .... through to
>
>  <http://ppa2011student30.blogspot.com/>
> http://ppa2011student30.blogspot.com/
>
> the students can get in, but the editor just lags forever, and they cannot
> input any information.
>
> Has anyone had similar problems and know how to solve this?
>
> I am now in the process of setting up EDUBLOGS accounts for my class of
> students, to try and use that platform instead.
> Is Edublogs good? Has anyone used it? Any Tips and Traps?
>
> Has anyone used Blogging on Moodle, and is that any good?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Pascoe
> ICT / Mathematics Teacher
> St Francis Xavier College Berwick
>
> http://passyworldofict.blogspot.com/
> http://www.youtube.com/passyworldofict
> mppascoe at tpg.com.au
>
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