Literacy Resources

This post is day 17 of 20 days to better blogging with children and considers the use of widgets on blogs. A widget is a a chunk of code that adds content to a page.  Usually the content is not static.  For example, on the right hand side of this blog I have several widgets, [...]

Day 11 of 20 days to better blogging is thinking about how we write hyperlinked texts and how we can share this with children.  Budtheteacher has been thinking about hyperlinked writing  and has, over time, created a series of posts about it. In fact, what did you do about the hyperlinks in the previous sentences? I [...]

Part of the emjoyment for me of being a blogger is starting a discussion or train of thought that others will join in with and help extend your thinking. In order for this to happen, blogs need readers so day 10 of 20 days to better blogging with children is about establishing a community of [...]

Day 9 of 20 days to better blogging with children has arrived and it is now time for them to start posting.  You will have written a couple of posts and should be ready to start with children.  This means time for shared writing where we show children how we write a post and link [...]

 The title of this image is comments hell!  Day 8 of 20 days to better blogging is all about showing children how to engage with commenting on blogs in a way that goes beyond comment hell.  These are the comment equivalents of closed questions.  It is almost impossible to follow on and keep the converstaion going. [...]

moar funny pictures This task is Day 7 of 20 days to better blogging with children.  We read blogs that cover areas that interest us  and so should children.  So, what are your children interested in? I asked this question of a group of Yr 2 and Yr6 children that I was working with as [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]