Edublogs-Michele+Avery



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Introduction: Edublogs is an education blogging website that allows you to create and manage student blogs, Students and teachers can include videos photos and podcast in a secure atmosphere. Teachers are able to monitor all content, create forums and discussions.

About Edublogs: Edublogs is a Web2.0 education website powered by WordPress for students of any age. Edublogs makes it easy for teachers and students to start blogging. Teachers can create, manage and moderate all student blogs. Edublogs has customizable themes and is made for podcasting, videos and photos. Edublogs provides step by step video tutorials. Blogs, video-sharing websites, and social networking sites give students the opportunity to think and write for a large audience.

Way to Intergrade Edublogs in the classroom Post materials and resources, this allows students to access all class materials from anywhere. Host online discussions, teacher post a question, when students comment an email is sent to you where you can edit and manage the responses. Share lesson plans and reflections with other educators around the world. Create classroom and school calendars with upcoming events for students and teachers. Edublogs can also be used as a way for parents to communicate questions, problems, or concerns. Edublogs allows teachers to post links directly to other websites, a great example of this would be linking a quiz from Edmodo, the students click on the quiz link take the quiz, it’s graded and posted in Edmodo for the teacher.

Benefits When students know that anyone in school, and around the world can see what they have created it quickly improves their thinking and the final product they produce.

Students are more responsible for their learning.

Students can access from anywhere.

Students can work in cooperative groups, getting ideas from each other and appealing to a rage of multiple intelligence.

Using a blog helps students improve their writing competencies

Encourages students to continuously try things out



Link: My Edublog: [|www.micheleavery.edublogs.org]

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