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Hi All!
My dd wants to start a blog as suggested on HUFI. Has anyone else done this? I would not even know where to start! Any suggestions on where I can get info on this topic? Thanks
My kids just started blogging on kidblog.org It’s designed for teachers to use with their classes. You can control what gets published and who is able to see it, which was important for me. We have only been doing it a week, and my kids are young, so their few posts so far have been short and sweet, but they are having fun.
Others will probably have more experience with the actual blogging process, but I thought I’d mention the site.
Joanne
My 12YO son has been blogging for three years now. We use WordPress and I set his blog to “private” so that only invited family/friends can see his posts and comment on them.
I honestly don’t know much about blogging, but this setup seems to work for my son.
My daughter uses Blogpot and her blog is open to the public. But she is also older.
My son blogs about most everything – usually I require one written blog post about something from his school studies and one blog post each week about seomthing else.
Some examples from this year:
-favorite Egyptian Pharaoh, along with a biography of that pharaoh
-Elements and Alloys
-several blog posts about our family vacation
-post about a church we toured, along with some of the symbolism in the bricks, stained glass, etc.
-his experience at TeenPact
-he wrote an obituary for President Theodore Roosevelt, since he just read and enjoyed a book about him
-some things he’s studied in Boy Scouts this year
-what he needed to learn to progress to his next belt in TKD
-a post about Stephen Hawking questioning an Albert Einstein theory about the Black Hole. That current debate interested him.
-the sybolism behind the three gifts of the wise men
-a few blog posts about field trips
-a couple of book reviewsHi
I’m looking for other groups of homeschoolers using kidblog.org
Our kids are part of a local (Sydney) homeschool writers club and we’d love the interaction of other like minded kidblog users. Our group can be found at http://kidblog.org/PenToPaper/
If you do use kidbog and want to have our kids read/comment on your classes posts and to do the same for ours please reply with the name of youe class too. Below is instructions on how to do this with our class, and if you could reply with the name of your class blog I’ll add you too…
“Providing Access to Other Classes You Do Not Manage
You may want to allow users from another Kidblog class to read or comment on your students’ posts, even if you are not an Adminstrator/Teacher on the other class. To give them permission to access posts on your class blogs, simply paste the URL of the other class (e.g. kidblog.org/their-class-name) into the box under the Posts and Comments sections of the Settings menu in the Control Panel. Click the “Add” button and their class will now appear in the list.
Now whenever a member of these other classes is logged in to their own class, they will be able to read posts or leave comments in your class. (Note that members of these connected classes will never be able to publish posts in your class – they can only read posts and submit comments.)” Dan http://support.kidblog.org/entries/21691526-providing-access-to-users-in-other-kidblog-classes
Thanks! Gina
My dd has started a blog recently related to all things Tolkien – http://hobbitsandhorses.weebly.com/. Weebly is super easy to use.
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