Blogging

====**Blogs provide collaboration between teachers and students to further develop writing or other skills alongside having an audience. Blogging open students up to discuss topics outside of the classroom. Each student has an equal opportunity to share thier thoughts and opinions. From blogging, students can be react to one and other and reflective to thier own. We have researched three different blogging websites. We’ve listed them according to what we felt was the most relevant. **====

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====Edublogs lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and include videos, photos & podcasts. Edublogs have an easy RSS subscribe system. By using A RSS logo makes people feel comfortable, it offers multiple subscription options and allows more tech users access. ====

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====Kidblog is built by teachers, for teachers, so students can get the most out of the blogging process. Teachers have control over all student blogs and accounts.The blogs are private by default and can only be viewed by classmates.You could create a 'semi-private' blog which you can have a guest (a parent) to view students work. ====

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====Tumblr allows you to post text,, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme's HTML. ====

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__**Rubric:**__ Here is the rubric we created for blogging. Take a look at the checklist and see which of these blogs would be relevant in your classroom.Blogging Rubric