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During the American Revolution unit, I can assign a quote or fact a day related to the American Revolution. Students can respond to the quote by making a modern day connection, describing the impact of what the quote is saying, explaining the meaning behind the quote, or  responding to a quick writing prompt about the quote/fact. Students can also reply to one another's posts to build a discussion about the initial quote/fact.

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Students can create a blog to keep their digital book trailers. They can create QR codes that link to their blogs. When students are looking for a good book to read they can scan their peers QR codes, review book trailers, and pick a new book to read.

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Create a blog for students to engage in book club conversations. Students can have discussion about their book. They can post their thinking and communicate about the text anytime from anywhere. It would provide teachers with a record of discussions, allow monitoring and scaffold learning.

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Students that are out sick can find out what the class is doing so that when they come back to school they don't feel as lost.

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Students can video themselves or their parents reading their favorite book and then post it to the blog. Then they can listen to their classmates read. They just might find a new favorite book.

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To help students explain what they are doing in class to their parents. They can review the posts from the blog together and the student can elaborate about the postings. So often young children say they didn't do anything in school that day.

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During the Bill of Rights unit, students can use their 1st amendment right, freedom of the press, to inform the public about problems that affect our society, (bulling, discrimination, poverty, drug abuse) and encourage the public to do something about it.

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Students can blog as if they are a historical character. For example they can create a journal pretending to be Robert E. Lee or Susan B. Anthony.

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As students write many posts over time, they can create a searchable archive of posts related to a particular topic.

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Students can confer with each other through comments and tagging each other through hyperlinks in their own blogs
What would the blogs be about? (Laurie)

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Students can follow each other's RSS feeds to receive updates on new blog posts

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Students can create a historical timeline sharing what they have learned throughout the year in history. For example, in 8th grade history students learn about the creation of our nation, (late 1700's) through Reconstruction after the Civil War. At the end of each unit, students can add to the timeline using texts, pictures, videos, etc...

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Blogging allows students to express thoughts and ideas with different media mediums. They can use a blog to learn how to blend, text, sound, and video to communicate a message to an audience.

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Open reflections are good to reflect on students have learned. Instead of just learning information, students could take time to think about the content and make connections.
Can you give an example of what they would be reflecting upon? (Laurie)

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When I was high school many if my English teachers asked us to keep a creative writing journal. Students could use a blog as a way to showcase their writing pieces.

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Science notebooks could become digital and all entries inputted on blogs. Students can attach videos and illustrations to go with text.

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Classroom newsletters could be posted on blogs and students can hello create them. Students could report on upcoming events and news and the teacher could wrap it up with his or her own message.

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I love seeing all these good ideas! Keep it going! One of my master's students who taught on base at Camp Pendleton had a class blog that the students posted every day.They signed up and each student did a day about what happened, what they were learning, etc. Deployed parents could read what was happening in their child's classroom and post comments!

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I would like to set up a class blog to share information between classes (especially the classes that have siblings in them). We could give information about what we are learning and ask questions.

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Setting up a blog that discusses classwork/homework could assist parents who struggle to help their students with "how I do it" (parent) vs. "how the teacher taught me" (student). Is this different enough??

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I could set up a blog about questions on homework. Students can help each other when they don't understand an assignment. This builds collaboration and

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I don't teach high school but I think creating a blog about current events is important. Students need to be aware about what is going on in the world- creates empathy and is relevant to the students

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I could set up a blog for my students to keep an online journal. I would ask questions like "What did you do over the weekend?" This builds classroom community and is authentic.

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I currently use a blog in my classroom. I use it as a place of directions for centers as well as a location for online assignments/links. The students can quickly access this page and find exactly what they need to work independently. It is much easier to say, "Take a look at the blog" rather than take the time to explain it 32 times.

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Danielle Canez (Upper Elementary or Beyond)

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Danielle Canez (Upper Elementary or Beyond)

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I could set up individual student blogs so they can respond to literature through book reviews and questions about their book. Students will be able to broadcast what they are reading and how they felt about it on their own individual blog.

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I could set up a blog for my students to share some information about their family and their background. This would support school-wide events such as Hispanic Heritage Month and Black History Month and foster relationships and respect among my students for each other.

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Gretchen (1st Grade Students or Beyond):

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Gretchen (1st Grade Students or Beyond):

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I could set up a blog for my students to vote on which of 3 possible options for a field trip this year and why. (The field trips would be preselected by me and tied to what we are studying in science this year.) Their votes would then become a math graphing activity.

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Gretchen  (1st Grade Students or Beyond)

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Gretchen  (1st Grade Students or Beyond)

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I could set up a blog that, with either my help or parent help, my students could write an opinion about a book that we read and justify their opinion. (This would support their 1st grade goal to write opinion pieces.)

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Families can set up blogs about their learning experiences and share news and student work. Interested friends and extended family members as well as the online community (if they choose) can follow their adventure.

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Individual students blog about their mathematical thinking each day and thus curate their journey in math through the school year.

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Students post to class blog- book reviews and reflections on what they are reading to build enthusiasm for reading and books.

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Individual students blog about their PBL or Genius hour project.