Making Connections with Blogging: Authentic Learning for Today's Classrooms

by Lisi Parisi, Brian Crosby

Overview

Parisi and Crosby show you how you can use blogging with any student as a part of any curriculum— not as an add-on, but as an integrated part of your lessons. Learn step by step how to blog, get ideas for your curriculum area, and understand how to manage blogging in the classroom. Get your students blogging, and change how learning happens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564843128
Publisher:	International Society for Technology in Education
Publication date:	05/15/2012
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Lisa Parisi, an award-winning educator with more than 25 years of general and special education teaching experience, has been blogging with her students since 2007. Parisi writes for educational publications and blogs for The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers, Teaching Tolerance, and her own blog, Lisa's Lingo.

Brian Crosby has taught upper elementary school for the past 30 years. He and his students have won many awards, including an Apple iLife Award. Crosby writes for a professional development company and is an occasional blogger for the Huffington Post and his own blog. Learning is Messy.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

What Is Blogging? 4

Who Should Blog? 4

What Makes Blogging Great? 5

Chapter 1 How Blogging Relates to Standards 9

Basic Skills 10

Engaging Others 10

Respecting Diversity 11

Effective Communication 12

Chapter 2 Changes in Pedagogy 15

Blogging and Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies 16

Blogging's Educational Impact 18

Pedagogical Changes 20

Chapter 3 Before You Start: Internet Safety and Etiquette 23

Internet Etiquette: What's Expected? 25

Internet Safety 28

Teaching Cyber Safety and Internet Etiquette 29

Chapter 4 So Many Choices 33

Which Blogging Platform Will You Use? 34

Your Class Blog: Public or Private? 36

To Moderate or Not to Moderate? 37

Who Will Control the Look of the Blog? 39

How Will Students Choose Passwords and Blog Names? 41

Give Up Control Gradually 41

Chapter 5 How Do You Blog? Step by Step 43

Before You Post 44

Writing and Publishing a Blog Post 45

Making a Comment on a Blog Post 53

Moderating Comments 58

Embed Codes (HTML) 62

Page Management 66

Chapter 6 Managing Blogging in the Classroom 71

Finding Time to Blog 72

Finding Time to Moderate 74

Chapter 7 On to Classroom Blogging 77

Getting Started 78

Content Area Blogging 81

Connect with Other Bloggers 89

Chapter 8 Commenting and Connecting 91

Developing Communication Skills 92

How to Find Other Bloggers 95

Chapter 9 Assessment 99

Writing Quality or Content Knowledge? 101

Appendix A Sample Consent Forms 105

Form A-1 Technology Agreement (Sample AUP) 106

Form A-2 Consent to Photograph Student 108

Form A-3 Consent to Post Student Work 109

Appendix B Respect and Acceptance Reading Resources 111

Picture Books-Stories 112

Fiction Chapter Books 112

Nonfiction Chapter Books 113

Appendix C National Educational Technology Standards 115

NETS for Students (NETS-S) 116

NETS for Teachers (NETS-T) 118

Index 121