This YouTube video, A Vision of K-12 Students Today by Barbara
Nesbitt really spoke to me. Before I started the Coetail Course
I was in the 76% of teachers that had never used wikis or blogs.
This course has made me see the need to engage ourselves and our
students to think, create and analyze as digital learners. The
grade 3 students I have worked with that created blogs over that
past couple of months have been engaged and are thinking,
analyzing and creating. They have learned so much, but in
teaching them, I have also learned more. I wanted to share some
of the websites I found helpful over the past couple of months
as we got our students set up with blogs. The first thing we had
to do was choose a blogging platform for our class. In the
article, Educational Blogging Platforms for Students by Bright
Hub Education Write several platforms were listed. We ended up
going with kidblog.org because it is user-friendly and free. I
would recommend it if you are starting the blogging process in
your class. Blogging