Blogging

**Before you begin to blog for your library or with students, ask yourself these questions:**
1. Why do I want to blog? 2. What audience do I want to reach and interact with? (in-school only or the world at large) 3. Do I want students to have their own blogs or do I want to have them only respond to my blog? 4. What type of content will I create for the blog? 5. What blog platform will I use? 6. What do I want my students to learn by blogging? 7. How will I introduce blogging to the students? 8. How will I engage parents and what permissions do I need to get before allowing students to blog?

Getting Started
Here is a list of resources for helping you get started blogging with students: WebTools4U2Use Wiki - Donna Baumbach's quintessential blogging page - some great how-to and start-up info here. To Blog or to Wiki- a great post about the differences and one teacher's experience Support Blogging Wiki - extensive links to classroom blogs, educational blogs for adults to read, how-to get started resources, and more. A Student's Advice to teachers about starting to blog with kids: awesome post by a student who's been there!

Edublogs.org - One of many blogging hosts for you to use to start your free first blog.

Resources to use
Other permission form samples