The Teacher Challenge is made up of free professional development challenge series where participants are taken 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.
Our latest series:
- Activity 1: Getting Your Class Blog Started
- Activity 2: Setting up pages – About, Blogging Guidelines and Contact
- Activity 3: Writing your first posts – What you need to know
- Activity 4: Writing comments – What you need to know
- Activity 5: Working with Widgets – What you need to know
- Activity 6: Helping parents and students connect with your class blog
- Activity 7: Fair use, copyright, and intro to using images
- Activity 8: Cool tools for enhancing your blog posts
- Activity 9: Connecting with other classes
- Activity 10: Setting up your student blogs
Archives from Spring 2011
We’ve broken our challenges into two separate challenges:
- Setting up class and student blogs
- 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.
Option 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.
- Activity 1: Setting Up Your Class Blog
- Activity 2: Setting Up Rules & Guidelines
- Activity 3: Teaching Quality Commenting
- Activity 4: Helping Parents Connect with your Class Blog
- Activity 5: Add Students To Your Class Blog So They Can Write Posts
- Activity 6: Add A Visitor Tracking Widget To Your Blog Sidebar
- Activity 7: Set up your student blogs
- Activity 8: Add your student blogs to your blogroll
- Activity 9: Add Your Student Blogs To A Folder In Google Reader
Option 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).
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October 2, 2011 at 4:09 am
So excited to set up a class blog with my ELL students!!!
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October 30, 2011 at 1:42 am
Are you taking ED 500?
January 15, 2012 at 4:10 pm
Well, I am trying the 30 day Blogging with Students Challenge. Although I am coming at this through the parents! I am going to start with a parent question on family recipes that have a back story. Before I even get them invloved, I am going to get some of my favorite teachers to contribute recipes so that our parents can see how it works. Check our challenge out at:
http://smith5thgradeblog.wordpress.com/
…and any imput would be greatly appreciated!
Mrs. Esswein
http://martinteach.edublogs.org
January 16, 2012 at 10:01 am
G’day Daryle,
What a great topic to start with – family recipes!! Welcome to the world of blogging where collaborating and communicating are at the fingertips of students in this global, digital world. Maybe join the student blogging challenge I run which starts in March. Registration forms will be available mid February at this URL http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org
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February 11, 2012 at 6:28 am
Hi
I’m the founder of http://www.lyricsnmusic.com/ a Lyric and Music search engine that a lot of teachers find useful. We list Lyrics, YouTube videos, Band Bio, Sheet Music, and Tour Dates on one page.
I was wondering if we might be listed on your “Free Web Tools” page.
Thanks
Bobby
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August 1, 2012 at 1:09 am
I have students who expressed an interest in The Student Blogging Challenge. Do you recommend that all students in a class sign up for the challenge rather than just those who are interested?
Thanks in advance.
August 1, 2012 at 1:58 am
G’day Mrs Klein,
If students have their own personal blog and want to sign up as individuals they can, otherwise if you have a class blog, you can sign that up as well. Don’t say they have to join as we then get students not actually doing the activities.
August 5, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Thanks Miss W for helping Mrs Klein with this question!
September 1, 2012 at 2:26 am
Thank you, Miss W., for your help. I’m not sure my blog would be called a “class blog.” I post my opinions and topics that I want students to comment on, but it really isn’t a blog with assignments and stories about what we are doing in class. I do have links to my students’ individual blogs. Would you say that this still qualifies as a class blog?
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