Blogging: Learning Blogs - The Guidance
Once you've selected your approach, you're ready to build your blog.
Build the Blog. Create a title and description that reflects the purpose of the blog.
Guidance. What guidelines and scaffolding will be provided to assure student success?
- Discussion guidelines
- Practice discussions
- Sample postings
Model Use. Be sure to provide models of well-written postings. Start with some rich prompts that will promote good discussion. Then, debrief the discussion.
Stay Out Of It. One sure why to stop discussion is by the teacher jumping into the conversation. If you have a concern, email an individual student or post a general class message.