Getting our students set up with blogging is more than opening up an account on a blogging platform. For years my students blogged. I taught them how to sign in, to type in the box, to change fonts and colors, add pictures, and even how to comment and reply to a comment.
Did you notice anything missing? I didn't either. Not until I started supporting teachers on their journey of becoming bloggers. Teachers were wondering about the basic navigation I shared above, but the teachers I work with were thinking deeper about blogging as a genre and how to set students up to be authentic bloggers.
I was asked questions like:
- What will they blog about?
- When will they bog?
- How can I fit blogging into out writing workshop?
- How will students get comments?
- How do we connect with other bloggers?
- What's safe to share?
I was relieved to hear teachers thinking beyond the basic navigation of blogging. I knew I had work to do. I gathered the fabulous literacy coaches I work with, Carrie Higgenbotham and Julie Johnson and we set to work talking about blogging. Armed with questions and new ways of thinking about blogging I buckled down to work preparing a PD session, Setting Students Up for Successful Blogging.
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