Blogging doesn’t have to be a series of diary-style entries by a single person. Blogs can have many users at the same time, enough for a whole class or even school, and there are many applications available that can be used to embed pictures, video and audio into posts. There is no set way a blog can be used in schools and no set frequency of use.
Here are some different ways in which blogs can be used by schools.
- Stories
http://wellsprings.creativeblogs.net/2012/11/24/the-human-mermaid-story-part-1/
http://story.heathfieldcps.net/
- Setting homework
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ac/P7homework/2012/04/27/balanced-arguments/
- Questionnaires
http://year6rc.edublogs.org/2012/11/26/picture-book-survey/
- Links to resources – a particular link that a class is using frequently or to resources that may be useful.
Westbury Schoool blogging resources
- Audio/video
http://welldone.heathfieldcps.net/2012/12/03/jessica-evaluates-nurture-group/
https://www.makewav.es/story/11836/title/videodiary8day7notredameschoolvisit
- Getting kids writing – Whole school writing projects!
http://pandora.heathfieldcps.net/
- Incentive – children’s work being picked to go on the class blog has been likened to being picked to have their best work go up on the wall.
http://welldone.heathfieldcps.net/2012/11/29/spelling-sensation/