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Blog2Learn

Blogmeister is a good place to start for teachers who are

new to blogging. It was founded by David Warlick of the
Landmark Project. It was created to give teachers a
significant amount of control over the web publishing
activities of the students.

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“A blogging tool developed for teachers

as an authentic publishing environment
to promote the development of
effective communication skills in
students.”

Quote Citation: David Warlick: Author of Blogmeister tool and “Blogmeister

Instructions” , <http://classblogmeister.com/blogmeister_instructions.pdf>
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Blog Title

Name for your classroom

General information and description.

Links

Blog Article Title Date Stamp

Teacher Entries
Student Blogs on
on Left Sidebar
Right Sidebar
Student Entries
on Left Sidebar

Class Blog
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Date Stamp

A comment that
has been posted by
a reader.

Student Blog
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• Blog Title First learn the blogging

• Date Stamp, Time Stamp vocabulary. All of these may
• Article Title (Blog Posts) not be on Blogmeister but you
need the terms for reading all
• Article’s Main Body
blogs.
• Blog Author
• Comments On the slides that follow we
• Permalinks will highlight a few of these
• Calendar components to foster
understandings.
• Archives
• Links or Blogrolls
Blog Components
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The last item written or posted is at

the top of the blog. So it can be helpful
to see beginning posts to understand
the purpose.

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Look for an “About” link to determine

who is writing the blog. If that fails go
back to the first post to see if there is
an introduction.

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Permalinks Click this link to see the permalink.

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Archives
Archives are usually in month form listed on the
sidebar. These are links to previous blog entries.
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Calendar
This is an optional blog feature which usually
shows the current month’s calendar dates.
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Comments allow readers

to reply to a particular blog
entry. They make the blog
interactive and are very
motivating to students.
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Now we are off to look at some good examples of educational

blogs. Then we will create our own!!

Remember………..
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Blogmeister blogs
First we will take a look at a few blogmeister blogs. Then we will look
at blogs from other publishers so you can gain more ideas for content
Elementary

Mrs. Cassidy’s Classroom Blog http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337

Grade 1 and 2, Kathy Cassidy – teacher

Mighty Writers 2006-07 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=41233

Grade 3, Mark Ahlness - teacher

5B@MAS http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=40878

Mamaroneck (NY) Avenue School

Grade 5 , Gordon Brune - teacher

Continue on for other levels

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Blogmeister blogs
Middle
English Corner http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=17192

Grade 6 Language Arts, Julia Osteen - teacher

Excellence and Imagination http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=2734

Grade 7 & 8, Clarence Fisher - teacher

Cool Cat Teacher’s Student Blog http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=26813

Middle & High, Vicki Davis – teacher

High
Bishop Dunne # http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=21053
Freshman Pre-AP English class, Kyle Stevens - teacher

B.D.C.S. Room 406 http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=22572

English III, English Language AP, English 4 - Daniel Wilson - teacher

Science by Davis http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=67123

Ecology & Biology, S. Davis – teacher
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Improving Instruction Through the Use of Weblogs

Click on the
graphic to go Enjoy
to a listing of browsing!
blogs. You will
go to a wiki Get ideas!
containing
Blogs across Share with
many Others!
categories.
Click on the Then we will
word ‘sidebar’ celebrate our
at the top right learning by
to open the creating our
listing. own blogs!

http://adavis.pbwiki.com
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This slideshow was created for a blogging workshop

for teachers. It was created by Anne Davis of
EduBlog Insights http://anne.teachesme.com
. If you have any questions she can be contacted at
adavis@gsu.edu.