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  • Should I Use Seesaw Or A WordPress Blog In The Classroom? (Comparison Chart)

    Posted on March 26, 2019January 1, 2021
    Should you use Seesaw in your classroom? Should you use WordPress blogs in your classroom? What are the pros and cons of these digital portfolio tools? Let's compare Seesaw and blogs for primary schools students and beyond! Kathleen Morris

    Should you use Seesaw in your classroom? Should you use blogs in your classroom? What are the pros and cons of these digital portfolio tools? Let’s take a look!

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  • Why Teachers And Students Should Blog: 18 Benefits of Educational Blogging

    Posted on March 14, 2018January 1, 2021
    There are many benefits of educational blogging. This updated 2019 post unpacks 18 reasons why teachers or students should have a blog. These advantages are summarised in a free PDF poster. Find out about the importance of teaching students to blog in the 21st century classroom. Kathleen Morris

    This post unpacks 18 reasons why teachers and students should have a blog. I summarise them all in a PDF poster which you’re welcome to use in your classroom or on your own blog. There are many benefits of educational blogging and I invite you to add your own ideas.

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  • There’s Blogging and There’s Blogging…

    Posted on May 17, 2013May 17, 2013

    Blogging is becoming increasingly common in schools, but are all blogging programs helping to improve student learning outcomes? This is an issue I was discussing with a member of my professional learning network recently. There seems to be two main schools of thought on educational blogging programs: The unrestricted program: this may involve all students […]

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  • Benefits of Blogging by Linda Yollis and Class

    Posted on April 8, 2013

    My good friend in Los Angeles, Linda Yollis, recently created this excellent video with her second and third grade class about the benefits of blogging. This video may give you more of an insight into what you could get out of blogging with your students, or you might like to share it with your staff. […]

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  • The Benefits of Educational Blogging

    Posted on March 8, 2013February 16, 2018

    In August 2017 I wrote a comprehensive post on the benefits of educational blogging for The Edublogger. Find that updated post here! 2013 is the sixth year that I have maintained a classroom blog. When I first began I didn’t know much about blogging at all and I didn’t realise there could be educational benefits […]

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  • 10 Tips for Introducing Blogging into Your Classroom

    Posted on January 28, 2013January 28, 2013

    With the new school year beginning in Australia, many teachers will be introducing blogging into their classrooms. Some teachers will be continuing an established blogging program with a new cohort of students, while others will be introducing blogging for the first time. If you’re totally new to blogging you may like to check out Five […]

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  • Getting Started with Global2

    Posted on January 25, 2013September 6, 2017

    Yesterday I ran a professional development day for teachers called Technify Your Teaching in 2013. While my colleagues Matt Limb and Simon Collier ran sessions on iDevices, Google Apps, Evernote and web 2.0 tools, I presented workshops on blogging with my team teaching partner, Kelly Jordan. One of our sessions was on setting up your […]

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  • Developing Blogging Skills: Simple Rubric

    Posted on November 28, 2012September 8, 2018

    I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a blogging scope and sequence for a while. However, something about that idea makes me uncomfortable. I don’t like the thought of limiting blogging skills to certain age levels. For example, a number of my grade two students were sourcing and attributing Creative Commons materials for blog […]

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  • All You Need to Know about Educational Blogging

    Posted on May 27, 2011

    Readers of this blog will know that educational blogging is one of my passions. I receive many questions from teachers each week about blogging via email, this blog, Twitter or in person. While I love helping other educators, sometimes the best way to answer a question is to point them to a post I have […]

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  • Literacy Skills and Blogging: How Far They’ve Come!

    Posted on December 14, 2010February 16, 2018

    I’m always telling people how much my students’ literacy skills have improved through blogging. In my seven year teaching career, I have not come close to finding another medium that helps students to refine their reading and writing so well. Through advice from the inspirational teacher, Linda Yollis, I have been able to set very […]

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