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Kidblog is a safe and simple publishing platform for students to publish their work, share their voice with an audience, and in the process transform their communication skills.

Teachers can use Kidblog as a platform for their students to publish their writing, audio, visual, or video projects. With the easy embedding features from other services like Edmodo and Glogster, students can personalize and be creative with their projects. As a teacher, you can also create a class blog as a way to communicate with parents. You can include information about daily happenings in the classroom, upcoming deadlines, and learning tips for students.

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Why should we use Kidblog in our classrooms?

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What is Kidblog and why should I use it in my classroom? UBC MET ETEC 510

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References: Alterman, R., & Larusson, J. A. (2013, 12). Participation and common knowledge in a case study of student blogging. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 8(2), 149-187. Ciampa, K. (2014). Learning in a mobile age: an investigation of student motivation. Journal of Assisted Learning, 30, 82-96.

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Kidblog empowers students to write with a meaningful purpose for a real audience. Students have an opportunity to connect with other classes in the same school or in the same country or around the world. Students receive an authentic chance to practice digital citizenship within a secure and controlled environment.

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The ability to adjust privacy settings on Kidblog provides an opportunity to protect your students' privacy, but it also serves as an opportunity  to discuss the issue of online privacy and safety with them. Therefore, this platform teaches the students about positive digital citizenship and the importance of positive digital footprints.
Also, I think it is important that teachers share with their class clear behavioural norms around acceptable content. Having these discussions is a great way to encourage critical thinking about the appropriate ways students interact on the web, being a good cyber civilian, and dealing with cyber bullying.
Students also get to choose who they want to share their posts with; they can specify a different audience for each post they publish. But ultimately the teacher is the one who checks and approves the  posts and audience before they are published. Teachers can monitor all activity within the class page.
Once the students have written post. They can choose to either save it as a draft, ask their teacher to review it, or publish it.

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Studies found that the comment feature increased engagement, motivation and metacognitive process.

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“I love Kidblog so much! I must say that in all my years of teaching, nothing has been more powerful in motivating kids to write than blogging. They look at other students' work and then go back to revise and edit their own.”

Heidi H.
Teacher
Baltimore, MD

“Kid Blog offers students a collaborative environment where they can creatively demonstrate understanding of content.”

Tammy T.

Ronald Reagan Elementary School
Palm Desert, CA

"Kidblog is a fantastic tool for students to write at school or at home while interacting with their teacher and peers."

Jennifer H.

"Get Students Publishing For An Authentic Audience With Kid Blog."

Michael G.