Get your students blogging as you embed the common core standards!
Checkout one of my student's blogs, "The Music Junkey"!
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Blogging is an excellent learning tool. Students can write to demonstrate learning or write for an authentic audience. Once again I recommend using www.weebly.com. You can signup for a free teacher account or purchase the Pro-version for as little as $30 a year. I purchased the pro-version so that my students would be able to load video or audio without using youtube. It just made life easier for several reasons: I could create more student accounts, students could upload video and audio directly to the page, and larger files could be uploaded.
Get your students blogging as you embed the common core standards! Checkout one of my student's blogs, "The Music Junkey"!
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As educators we want students to have an authentic audience for their writing and speaking as we incorporate the new Common Core standards, podcasting is a great way to do just that! It is simple when using www.weebly.com. As a teacher you can create a free site which will allow you to create about thirty accounts for your students to create their own webpage. I suggest getting them to create a blog page and to post their podcast. This will allow their audience to subscribe to their blog. There are other media's out there, but this one allows you as a teacher to monitor and control the content. I have tried podmatic and a few others, but weebly has been the best for me. Good luck in your endeavors to embed technology!
Check out my student's work at "The FLAME". http://www.toondoo.com is a free web 2.0 software that allows one to create their own cartoon and develop their own stories. Looks like fun way to get students who are not interested in writing to join in the learning.
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