Literacy Resources

Day 6 of 20 days to better blogging with children is about writing your own post.  You have been reading blogs, commenting on them and have now set up your own blog. Time to write your first post.  You will probably have noticed that on the whole people do not write very long posts.  They [...]

So now that you know how you can use a blog, the time has come to find a suitable host for your blog.  This is Day 5 of 20 days to better blogging with children. There are many different places to host blogs and what you use will depend upon what you want to do.  There [...]

Day 4 of 20 days to better blogging with children is about ensuring that the blog that you use is as safe as is necessary for your class.  The first place to start is your Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to see if it has a publishing to the web section.  Your next step is to [...]

This is Day 3 of 20 Days to Better Blogging with Children and the task is to join in with the conversation that a blogger has started in a post.  The purpose of this task is to engage you in the process of reading and commenting on blogs so that you can share an authentic [...]

Keeping track of your blogs is the task for Day 2 of 20 Days to Better Blogging with Children Why do I need to keep track of the blogs? You will eventually find several blogs that you are interested in reading more than once.  In fact you might want to read every post that they [...]

This first task of 20 Days to Better Blogging with Children is to become a reader of blogs yourself.  The purpose of this is so that you can see what people are already doing.  Try and read some that are written by childen, some by teachers and some that are written by people who are [...]

I am fairly new to blogging and as part of undertaking an online course in blogging, 31 days to be a better blogger, I have had to reflect on my learning.  The learning in technology has been enormous – technorati, google analytics and heat maps to mention but a few but there has also been some [...]

What a wonderful event and what a wonderful idea.  Thanks @AngelaStockman for sharing it.  Make a video of three words that sum up your experience.  Here are the films from the Special Olympics.  I am amazed at the number of different ways they found to share those words. We could use this to summarise just [...]

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Many teachers are now using blogging with their pupils or students.  There are a whole range of types of blog post and these can be used to develop a range of writing styles and text types particularly in non-fiction writing.  These ideas have been taken from the slideshow The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging by rohitbhargava. Review blogging – [...]