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Blogging With 100’s
August 4, 2008 | Tagged blogging, middle school, science | Leave a Comment
Ok, now that I’ve got the job comes the real work. One of the things I’m trying to sort out right now is just how to set up blogging (which I want my students doing) for over a 100 students-actually about 150. I want them blogging about the investigations we do in class as a way of reflecting and communicating as well as responding to various questions, articles, and so on. My biggest question is this: individual blogs or a big blog that all can write to? I’m also contemplating middle ground solutions, i.e. setting up a blog for each class that they can write to or creating blog groups so they are only sharing the blog with 3 or 4 other students. While ideally I’d like them each to have their own I haven’t found a good way of managing that as yet (or even offering it). 21classes has come the closest, offering 50 student blogs with my account, but I would need 3 or 4 of those to cover all my students. And while one blog would be easier to manage, one blog for 150 authors doesn’t seem sufficient. There are a variety of options for the middle ground, but if anyone has any ideas/feedback on how blogging has worked best for them with their students-feel free to chime in!
Learn well!
