Kidblog allows students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community while teachers maintain complete control over student blogs.
Advantages:
Curriculum Connections:
Resources to Get Started:
Advantages:
- Teachers can create a class blog, and add student accounts without needing student email accounts.
- Students have their own unique blogging space. They can create posts and comment on other students' posts.
- Teachers have control over approving students' posts and comments before they are published to the blog.
- The site is secure. Students must login to read posts and write comments.
- Teachers can post private comments, so that only the child who wrote the post may see the teacher's comment. This is a great way to leave feedback for the student.
- Students can navigate easily between their blog space, their teacher's blog space (optional), and their classmates' blog spaces.
- There are no ads on this site.
Curriculum Connections:
- create book discussions (great for literature circles or book reports)
- post prompts for writing
- online journal writing
- publish student work (writing, photos, video, etc.)
Resources to Get Started:
kidblog-tutorial.ppt |
quickstartguide_kidblog.org.pdf |
*NOTE: KidBlog has always been completely free, until September 2015. However, you are able to utilize it for 30 days at no charge, and if you want to continue using it after that time, the cost is $30 a year. I do not usually promote sites that cost money, but I feel that KidBlog is a great blogging site for educational purposes with the option to monitor students, and if you are serious about your class blogging and using it regularly in your classroom, it could be worth the money.