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How do I create a blog?
There are a range of free blog tools available on the web and all provide instructions for getting started and tutorials on how to use the various features.
What should I include in my blog?
A good blog should include information describing what, why and how you did something. It would express your thoughts and feelings about the subject matter and your learning. It would provide constructive criticism and not use aggressive or inappropriate language. It would endeavour to use correct spelling and grammar and avoid chat language. It would give credit to original authors and provide hyperlinks to original sources where possible.
How can I assess the quality of my blog?
Blogging rubrics are valuable tools for evaluating the quality in your own blog posts and for assessing your students work.
Below are links to some of the most popular tools.
Blogger (owned by Google). The leading blog tool and in my opinion one of the easiest blog tools to learn & use.
Edublogs (Australian owned). The largest provider of educational blogging in the world.
Posterous Spaces (American owned). Post direct from your email or iphone and publish to multiple spaces on the web.
WordPress (hosted open source). More than just a blog and also more complex.
WordPress tutorial for beginners Part 2 - Dashboard [6:09 min video]
How do I start blogging?
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano has recently added a series of posts: learning about blogs FOR your students that provide great advice for novice bloggers.
Part 1: Reading (29/10/2011)
Part 2A: Writing (26/11/2011)
Part 2B : Student Writing (11/12/2011)
Part 3: Commenting (12/12/2011)
Part 4: Connecting (17/12/2011)
Part 5: Reciprocating (20/12/2011)
Part 6: Consistency (22/12/2011)
Part 7: Quality (25/12/2011)
Below are links to rubrics that you are free to use, as long as you acknowledge the original creators.
2009 - Andrew Churches Blog journalling rubric and a link to his Rubrics for Blooms digital taxonomy page where you can find an assortment of rubrics to assess learning
2009 - Kim Cofino's blog rubric
2010 - Clarence Fisher's Blogging rubric (based on Kim Cofino's rubric) and a link to the original file on google docs that you are wlcome to change to suit your needs.
2010 - Karen Franker: University of Wisconsin- stout A rubric for evaluating student blogs
2011 - Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano's Blogging rubric
More info...
References
Langwitches. (2010). Blogging rubric [image]. Retrieved 17/11/2010 from langwitches website: http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/12/25/learning-about-blogs-for-your-students-part-vii-quality
Rosenthal Tolisano, S. (2011). Learning about blogs FOR your students. Retrieved 22/12/2011 from Langwitches website: http://langwitches.org/blog
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