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Kidblog
A Great Instructional Tool for Today’s Students

2. What is a blog?

3. How will blogging benefit my students?
 Learning theories
 Social Learning- Bandura (McLeod, 2011)
 Constructivism (Paily, 2013)
 Connectivism (Siemens, 2005) George Siemens
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4. How will blogging benefit my students?
 Fun!
 Engaging to readers
 Improves confidence
 Exposure to technology
 Improves proofreading (editing) skills
 Share ideas
 Mutual learning
 Digital portfolios
 Learn web etiquette
(Khan, 2012)

5. Why Kidblog?
 “Built by teachers, for teachers, so students can get the most
out of the writing process.” (Kidblog website)
 Safe
 Very easy to use for students and easy for teachers to manage
 Limited audience-only those with the class code have access to
the blog posts
 COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection) compliant
 Allows students to become creators not just consumers
 Students can add photos, drawings, and other multimedia to
their posts
 Easy to use on any device- laptop, netbook, iPad, tablets
 Connect with other classes
 FREE!

6. Getting started
 Get permission from parents
 Create a Kidblog account for your class and students.
 Manage privacy settings in accordance to your school’s
AOP (Acceptable Use Policy)
 Provide your audience with your class code (parents,
older student buddies)
 Model how to use Kidblog and how to create posts, what
to post, and how to respond to others
 Create clear expectations for your students including
appropriate topics and respectfully responding to others.

7. What do we blog about?
 Kidblog is a cross-curricular platform
 Publish writing
 Story problems for others to solve
 Reflections on new concepts being learned
 Special events (classroom news)

8. Gathering assessment data
 Kidblog makes it really easy to review each student’s
portfolio of work.
 Collect data for many of the standards you would
typically assess through paper and pencil…AND you
don’t have to lug all those papers around to grade!
 Assess areas such as communication skills,
conventions, writing genres, ability to make
connections, their understanding of a new concept.

9. Examples of class Kidblogs
 http://kidblog.org/MrsStupkasClassBlog/
 http://kidblog.org/MrsCsClass-19/

10. References
Khan, H. (2012). Incorporating blogging into education. Instantshift Retrieved
from http://www.instantshift.com/2012/10/11/incorporating-blogging-into-
education/
McLeod, S. (2011). Bandura-Social Learning Theory. Simply Psychology
Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/bandura.html
Meech, S. (2010). Kidblog Offers Safe and Simple Interface. Learning & Leading
With Technology, 37(8), 38.
Paily, M. U. (2013). Creating Constructivist Learning Environment: Role of "Web
2.0" Technology. International Forum Of Teaching & Studies, 9(1), 39-50.
Siemens, G. (2005) Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age.
International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 2(1).
Retrieved from http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Jan_05/article01.htm