Indiana Area School District — June 9 & 16, 2015
Blogging Overview
Blogs are an exciting way for teachers and their students to share writing with other people in a public forum. Keeping a blog gives a person an opportunity to voice their thoughts to the world. Blogs have become more and more popular over time because they are easy to publish and fun to write. Blogs have also impacted world events. This workshop will teach you the basics for how to create your own blog and how to use blogs with your students. This is your chance to join the blogosphere!
Blogging Basics
Getting Started with Blogging
- Blogger.com
- Task: First Blog Entry
- Guide: Blogger.com Basics
- Guide: How to Follow Blogs
- Task: Blogroll Entry
- Task: Subject Area Writing Entry
- Guide: Blogger Getting Started Guide
Tips for Teaching with Blogs
Grading Blogs
- Guide: Grading Blogs
- Sample Rubric for Overall Blog Use
- Sample Generic Blog Grading Rubric
- Blooms Taxonomy Based Grading Rubric
- Guide: Assessing Student Learning in Digital Environments
Blog Terminology
- The HawkEye (IUP independent journalism blog)
- Dr. Pagnucci’s Blog
- IUP Blog Login
Other Interesting Blogs
- Baseball Poetry Blog by David Schaafsma of the University of Illinois at Chicago
- HuffPost College (the Internet newspaper)
- Literacy Blog by Dennis Jerz of Seton Hill University (winner of the John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award at the 2009 Computers and Writing Conference)
- Vitual Politik Blog by Elizabeth Losh (about digital rhetoric)
- StevenDKrause.com
- Sample academic blog by Dr. Steven Krause
- Blogging expert and composition scholar
- “What Star Trek Can Teach Us About Writing” by Kristen Lamb
Articles about Blogging
- “When Blogging Goes Bad” by Steven D. Krause (Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University)
- “Death at 25: Blogging the End of a Life” by Madison Park (CNN)
- The Student Writer as Blogger: A Longitudinal Study of a Blogger’s Critical Narrative Events (2010; Chapter 1) by Dr. Eric Glicker (IUP Alumni)
Other Blogging Platforms
- WordPress.org (free blog service with more advanced blogging features)