student blogs

student blogs

Christine Ruder

don't use names of students only initials or town

watch brainPOP video online safety and blogs

make a list of topics to blog about

review safety rules every month, students develop & own rules

permission & access by parent

privacy playground

lee aand kim's adventures

hector's world

pbs webonauts

at&t safetyland

a prompt for every day,

Thurs is "write about math day"

share url w parents and encourage parents to post comments

choose one to post to class blog

fri go to lab

post your blog on Comments4Kids

comment rule: positive, punctuation, reflect on bloggers thoughts

comments allowed if positive

jewish family childrens services has online safety

KidBlog check post in lab before post

profile pic: draw portrait & scan, portrait w art program, wildself, to make avatar and attached jpeg is named with initials

if drawing, make a square paper

first lesson is a group post

how to give a title

she has them hand write the post first

better for time in lab

dance mat typing: 10 min session, do level 1 three times

twitter for ideas @jhox1 is Christine