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[|Benefits of Blogging] While reading about the 'how to's' and 'why's' of blogging in the classroom; I have come across three reoccuring statements about the benefits of blogging:


 * Blogging is highly motivating to students; especially those who may not normally participate in open class discussions.


 * Blogging promotes more opportunities to read and write.


 * Blogging can be utilized as a form of collaboration (within the class or with other classes around the globe) and discussions - again, allowing an avenue for students to express themselves.

 [|The many uses of blogs]
 There are so many different ways to utilize blogs in your classroom.

1. Classroom Management - create a blog to post:  2. Collaboration - create a blog to collaborate and showcase learning with others. 3. Discussions - create a blog to foster discussion on a varity of topics pertaining to your content area. 4. E-Portfolios - create a blog to showcase students work:  Other ideas for integrating blogs into your curriculum: - Students take turns on writing 'Weekly Reviews' on a book that is being read in class, or a movie, a television special, etc. - Students post lab entries to collaborate and discuss scienctific experiements and discovery - Practice critqueing a website and providing rationale - Students create a newspaper story covering a district event - include pictures - Role play and discuss different perspectives: when studying geology - write as though they are the rock; when studying history - blog or post a podcast as a person from the past.
 * class requirements
 * class syllabus
 * presentations
 * handouts
 * podcasts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">rubrics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">assignments
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">notices/announcements
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">question/answer board
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">communicatin portal for parents
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creative writing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">podcasts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">multimedia creations
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">other documents

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=<span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">Embedding Video into your blog: = = = <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> Embedding video is so easy - For example, if you have a video from [|TeacherTube] - click on the video - find the 'Embeddable' code - copy this (this is called HTML code) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">

<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Open up your blog - New Post - paste code (make sure your 'edit html' tab is selected) = = = =