Monday, February 25, 2008

Articles on and ideas for Edublogging

Some recent, noteworthy articles on The Edublogger:

* Tips On Blogging With Students: Practical advice on how to start edublogging with your students. Touches on the element of parental consent for student edublogging.

* Meet the miniLegends — Check Out How They Customise Their Own Blogs: (also see http://alupton.edublogs.org/) A student blog mentoring project initiated by Al Upton, an Australian primary school teacher. Every Year 3 student or "miniLegend" in his class has a blog. His invitation:
If you’re an educational blogger of any kind (or visitor) and would like to ‘mentor a mini’ then please leave a comment on THIS page saying who you would like to be connected with. The idea is to drop into their blogs from time to time throughout the year and leave a positive comment.

It's a project whereby people from all around the world (The Edublogger says, "He would really like mentors for all students from as many different countries as possible") are invited to help students improve by encouraging them.

Very different from the earlier example where a teacher made fun of student essays.

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