{"id":53328,"date":"2016-01-20T09:51:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=53328"},"modified":"2016-01-20T09:51:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:51:38","slug":"blogging-in-the-classroom-how-to-get-started-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/01\/20\/blogging-in-the-classroom-how-to-get-started-banner\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging in the classroom: How to get started [Banner]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onblastblog.com\/blogging-in-the-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53336\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53336\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BloggingInTheClassroom-MattBanner-Nov2015.jpg\" alt=\"BloggingInTheClassroom-MattBanner-Nov2015\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BloggingInTheClassroom-MattBanner-Nov2015.jpg 734w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/BloggingInTheClassroom-MattBanner-Nov2015-150x124.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onblastblog.com\/blogging-in-the-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Blogging in the classroom: How to get started<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from onblastblog.com by Matt Banner<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we\u2019ll discuss today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ways to bring blogging into your classroom and daily lesson plans<\/li>\n<li>The litany of benefits blogging brings to education<\/li>\n<li>Deciding the purpose and goals of your blog<\/li>\n<li>Setting up your classroom\u2019s blog<\/li>\n<li>Easy ways to promote and grow your classroom blog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Blogging about a subject turns novices into experts. <\/strong><br \/>\nThere\u2019s no other choice. When you write thousands upon thousands of words about something, doing research all the while, you become an expert in that subject. It\u2019s unavoidable, and possibly the best way to learn in my opinion. Instead of having the information fed to them, students are taking it and putting it down on paper in their own words.<\/p>\n<p>They live the information instead of simply seeing it. This is huge in terms of learning something for the long-term. Hands-on experience will always leave more of a lasting impression than something that is simply boiled down to a few questions on a test.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Lampinen, a high school English teacher in New Jersey wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/blog\/blogging-in-21st-century-classroom-michelle-lampinen\" target=\"_blank\">great article on this here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emergingedtech.com\/2015\/09\/the-state-of-blogging-in-the-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How blogging is being used in the classroom today: Research results<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from emergingtech.com by Mike Wallagher<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 2015 survey has yet to be reported on, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/2014\/10\/14\/the-state-of-educational-blogging-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">2014 research findings<\/a> have something to say about the state of blogging in the classroom today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits of Blogging in the Classroom<\/strong><br \/>\nBlogging in the classroom can have numerous benefits depending on how you use your blog. Just some include that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instructors can create a blog about class happenings so parents can stay up-to-date and students can access announcements from anywhere<\/li>\n<li>Teachers can use their blogs to store lessons online or provide supplemental learning materials to students<\/li>\n<li>Instructors can use blogs to organize assignments, such as posting them online for absent students or listing due dates so all students have access to the course materials from anywhere<\/li>\n<li>Teachers can post previous students\u2019 work as examples or publish current students\u2019 work so they can show parents and family who live far away<\/li>\n<li>Educators can open the comment sections on blog posts to get feedback from parents and the community as well as to create discussion between students<\/li>\n<li>Student blogs teach children about writing techniques, online publishing, and proper Internet etiquette, which most students will use in future careers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How Blogs Are Being Used<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cBlogging in the classroom\u201d may bring up this idea that there\u2019s <em>one<\/em> way to present blogging to your students, but there are a myriad of ways educators can use blogs. Just some options include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Personal blogs for teachers<\/li>\n<li>Student blogs<\/li>\n<li>ePortfolios<\/li>\n<li>Platforms for assignments, homework, and announcements<\/li>\n<li>Classroom blogs for collaboration and discussion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Whether your school, university, or college has a web hosting service or whether you need to go out and find a web hosting service yourself &#8212; or use a free service\/solution &#8212; blogging is a great way to create streams of content and to &#8220;think out loud.&#8221; It offers benefits for students, teachers, professors, staff, and administrators.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging in the classroom: How to get started &#8212; from onblastblog.com by Matt Banner Excerpt: Here\u2019s what we\u2019ll discuss today: Ways to bring blogging into your classroom and daily lesson plans The litany of benefits blogging brings to education Deciding the purpose and goals of your blog Setting up your classroom\u2019s blog Easy ways to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,127,433,286,32,419,46,173,66,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-blogging","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-digital-learning","category-education-technology","category-ideas-teaching","category-k-12-related","category-pedagogy","category-student-related","category-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53328"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53339,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53328\/revisions\/53339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}