Tech Happy » middle school http://adam547.edublogs.org A Blog About Using Technology in the Classroom Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:45:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Blogging With 100’s http://adam547.edublogs.org/2008/08/04/blogging-with-100s/ http://adam547.edublogs.org/2008/08/04/blogging-with-100s/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:12:30 +0000 azrunner http://adam547.edublogs.org/?p=29 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!

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