If you publish a classroom blog, are you putting your students at risk? Maybe. The internet is a powerful tool and like cars, glue and the force, it can be used for good and evil. The Risks Here are three reasons why we need to consider how much personal information is intentionally or accidentally revealed. […]
Archives for June 2008
Building Self Esteem – Using Blogs to Send Compliments
Building self-esteem in our students is something that teachers are often looking for ways to do. We already use blogs to publish student work online… so why not use blogs to build self-esteem as well? Say Something. Nice is an example of how you can use technology to facilitate a classroom activity. I remember reading […]
Classroom Blog Security: Prevent students hacking your site
There are two situations where you might want to think about classroom blog security and restrict access to your educational website to just a few specific computers. First, you might want to restrict the entire blog so it can only be accessed by people using school computers. Second, you might want to restrict the login […]
How to Start a Blog, Classroom Blog or School Website
4 quick and easy ways to set up a classroom website, an educational blog (edublog), or even a school website.
6 Reasons To Get Your Students Blogging
Updated June 24, 2019: Crazy. I wrote this post 11 years ago. This was before I was using Dragon, speaking naturally into a microphone and getting the voice-to-text software to “type” for me. Since that time, I’ve run a classroom blog every year – sometimes having my students blog more or less, depending on how […]