[MOSAIC] Starting a website/Creating a blog

[Janice Friesen]

Anyone who wants to use blogs with their classes should try out
Classblogmeister (http://classblogmeister.com).  It is a very protected blog
tool that provides each student in your class with their own blog.  They can
design how it looks themselves, but everything they add to it has to be
approved by you before it gets posted on the web.  You can even give them
some corrections to do and have them do the corrections and get approval
from you before it is actually posted.  The blogs can be password protected
so that even to see what they have posted a password is required or it can
be more open.  It is all up to you.  Here is a great one for third grade to
look at:

http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=41233

Janice


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Janice Friesen
janicef at jfriesen.net
http://jfriesen.net
Paper just seems so restrictive anymore, doesn't it?



On 7/5/07 6:33 PM, "Sarah Maurer" <alexa102 at msu.edu> wrote:

> Just a word of caution about blogs-
> If you use the same username to create a personal one and one for your
> class, parents may be able to access your personal one. I know this is true
> on Blogger. 
> 
> I have 2 different personal blogs and am part of a group blog. If someone
> were to click on my username, it would take them to a profile page and list
> the blogs I am a member of. As I wasn't ready to share my personal blog with
> the group, I had to go into my settings and change it. I chose just to take
> the personal blogs off of my public profile but still available for people
> to stumble upon. Another option I could have chosen was to allow only
> certain people or no one to view it.
> 
> It may not be important to some, but I like to keep my personal and
> professional life separate in areas such as these.
> 
> I don't know if this makes any sense- please ask if you have questions.
> Sarah Maurer
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:53:35 -0400
> From: "Harbour, Deborah " <harbourd at dreamsbeginhere.org>
> Subject: [MOSAIC] creating a website
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> This is in response to Kimberlee's question about a website.  For the
> longest time I wanted to do a website but was overwhelmed by the idea.  Plus
> -  I needed something that I could easily maintain.  This year a colleague
> convinced me to start my own blog.  She has two; one for her and one for her
> class.  On a blog I could still list all I wanted to, list websites, post
> pictures, podcasts, and more importantly I could have my students
> (Kindergarteners) learn how to post on their own for their parents to enjoy.
> I think a blog could offer you everything you would like.   You should check
> into it.  I started mine this summer and learning how to do so much on it.
> It is very easy to do and you would be quiet surprised at the endless
> possibilities.  
> 
> Debbie
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