The Teacher Challenge is made up of free professional development challenges where participants are step through tasks that increase their skills.

Blogs are the perfect tool for reflection, creating a learning portfolio, project management, sharing, and much more.  You can learn more about blogs and why blog here!

You can work through the activities in any order and at any time.

We’ve broken our challenges into two separate challenges:

  1. Setting up class and student blogs
  2. Setting up a class blog

Please note:

  • While the posts in these series were written in 2011 we regularly update the information to ensure the step-by-step instructions are current.
  • These posts were last updated on 27 January, 2012.

Challenge 1: Setting up class and student blogs:

For those who want to set up a class blog and have students writing posts on the class blog and/or their own student blog.

  1. Activity 1: Setting Up Your Class Blog
  2. Activity 2: Setting Up Rules & Guidelines
  3. Activity 3 – Teaching Quality Commenting
  4. Activity 4 – Helping Parents Connect with your Class Blog
  5. Activity 5: Add Students To Your Class Blog So They Can Write Posts
  6. Activity 6: Add A Visitor Tracking Widget To Your Blog Sidebar
  7. Activity 7: Set up your student blogs
  8. Activity 8: Add your student blogs to your blogroll
  9. Activity 9: Add Your Student Blogs To A Folder In Google Reader

Challenge 2: Setting up Class Blogs:

For those who want to use a class blog only (with or without students writing posts on the class blog).

  1. Class blog activity 1 – Getting Started
  2. Class blog activity 2- Customizng your blog’s look
  3. Class blog activity 3 – Must haves for your blog
  4. Class blog activity 4 – Getting your posts and commenting started
  5. Class blog activity 5 – Blogging with students
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