After spending the last week chatting about blogging, I still support blogging. I think that blogging should be offered over a continuum like the one presented by Kim Cofino\u00a0 in google.docs:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1RIxA7kRSkT-eEPNtsIyxFehS4AIm1UtFzAhhPmKVCfk\/edit?authkey=CKeq9boM<\/a><\/p>\n I had a alot of fun investigating the privacy and security features of Live Journal this week. While I am quite comfortable with blogging in general, I did not feel comfortable offering LJ as a blogging option to my students.\u00a0 While their security features are solid once you are “inside” LJ, their website home page is not ok for K-12 viewers> the topics were controversial and there is no way that as a teacher I could monitor them all.<\/p>\n The best thing about this week was learning that I am really ok with blogging in the classroom, I just believe that it is a skill that needs to be developed across the whole school career (and beyond).<\/p>\n I think that we missed out on discussing this week were the other blogs that could be used, that offer security and “acceptable” home pages to k-12 students. Some of these include:<\/p>\n blogger<\/p>\n Edublogs<\/p>\n wordpress<\/p>\n weebly<\/p>\n bloglines<\/p>\n edmodo<\/p>\n ning<\/p>\n And those that we don’t alwasy think of as blogs:<\/p>\n google.docs<\/p>\n wikispaces<\/p>\n Anyway..on that note, I will leave the link to my first blog ever, an ode to Alan November<\/p>\n http:\/\/verenanz.edublogs.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n Verena:)<\/p>\n References:<\/p>\n