Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Carol Bar, Blue Valley, KS High School

Carol Bar, Blue Valley, KS High School
cbar@bluevalleyk12.org

Steps to getting started with blogging in class
1. Allow class time for initial set up allow 30 minutes
2. Provide clear, strict guidelines
school appropriate
no on-line translaters
3. Provide clear, guided prompts
4. Provide topic choices
5. Encourage student reflections
6. Use repetitive student errors to drive classroom instruction
7. Set clear deadlines for submission
ePals has a date and time stamp on every blog
8. Create an easy scoring rubric
9. Create a Two-fold assignment
must respond to other blogs
students post and respond
10. React to your students! About what they said not language issues

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Security feature: all content is submitted privately to teacher who approve and posst to blog
Multimedia:
Language translation feature

ePals provides a yellow highlighter for use in reviewing the work

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