Blogs+and+Wikis

**Using Blogs and Wikis with Lower School students**
//**What's the difference? BLOGS are for discussions, WIKIS are for content**//

Here is a workshop blog using Blogs for literature discussion. You can assign different books to small groups of students, or the whole class, and have them participate in discussions using the blog. Include video and web links to increase their participation in the content of the books.

Here is an example on The Ugly Duckling, created for a workshop I attended (so not actually used with students) But a great example of how you would setup the blog to discuss a book. Be sure to start at the beginning of the blog by going to the BOTTOM, the first post is always at the end.

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Another idea for Blogs is to use them to discuss Social Studies topics. Here is one actually used with third grade studying Pilgrims:

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TRY GLOGSTER - CREATE AN ONLINE POSTER!! go to [|www.glogster.com/edu] and sign up, register your class

Jeff Whipple's page on Blogging - great links to example blogs http://whipple-web20.wikispaces.com/Blogs

USE BLOGMEISTER!! We have an account so that you can setup blogs for your students: [] our school code: bkay Click the Register button to the right to register a teacher account and start your blog.