Blogging With Students

You may be thinking to yourself, 'how can I use blogging to enhance my instruction?' Well, you've come to the right place. I've been thinking a lot about how I can use blogging with my students, and as I said earlier, it is always nice to have list of resources to get started with. I have found some extremely helpful websites that are full of ideas for blogging with students of all ages.

Teachers First Blog Ideas - This site lists blogging ideas for students in grades one through twelve. Most of the ideas are language arts related, but some cover social studies and science content.

Using Blogs in the Classroom - This site lists more language arts related blogging ideas.


I really like many of the ideas discussed at these two websites, but I also see blogging as a way for students to connect to other students around the country and the world. Most of these ideas keep the blogging within the walls of one classroom.

To begin, I can see a blog going schoolwide. It would be a great way for students in different grades to connect to one another. One idea that comes to mind immediately is the holiday season. Most of the grades in our school do some sort of holiday rotation where they learn about the winter holidays of different cultures. Most of these cultures are represented in our school, and wouldn't it be extraordinary for students to be able to share their personal experiences and questions with each other? Teachers could start each blog by giving a brief background of each holiday. Students of all grades could then respond with experiences they've had, as well as questions that they have about the holidays. I can see this as being a great way to motivate students to learn about other cultures. Click here to see the winter holidays blog that I created to use next year. Families can also get involved in this initiative. Students can work with their family members to create posts the showcase their family traditions. The nice thing about Edublogs is that all of the comments will be sent to me before being posted to the Internet. My blog is still in the works, but I am really excited to use it this year!