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Blogging How-Tos
For a great series of lesson plans, click here.Blogs are online social spaces that facilitate competency development in the English language arts program of both the elementary and secondary ELA programs of the Québec Education Program.
Graphic of where online social spaces fit into the Québec Education Program for competency development
Graphic of How To Grow a Blog
List of Blogging Services and Software
Elementary: - Response Process and Reading
Secondary Cycle 1 - Competency 4: Follows a process to produce written texts in specific contexts; Develops style as a writer within a classroom community of writers; Explores the relationship(s) between writer, text and context
Secondary Cycle 2 - Competency 3: Produces text for personal and social purposes
Blogs in Plain English - free online video
Rationale for Educational Blogging (Anne Davis)
How to Grow a Blog (Konrad Glogowski)
Blogging: A Technological Aid to Building Effective Communities
Educational Blogging (Stephen Downes)
Blogging Options for Educators
Educational Resources about blogging in the classroom
Books about Blogging:
Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms ,(Paperback) by Will Richardson
Classroom Blogging, 2nd edition, David Warlick
More information on blogging can be found here on the LEARN site
Banned Books Week read-write-think has some ideas for celebrating Banned Books Week (September 26 - October 3). It is a great time to open up a discussion about censorship and why books may have been censored by particular groups. Why don't you share your banned books ideas on the listserv ela-chat?
Meet Any Good Authors Lately? This article shows the value of using Skype in your classroom to bring authors in for short virtual visits. Included is a list of authors who are willing to do a virtual visit for free. Find out how to do this.
Quebec Teachers Read A blog has been created to feature books for young students, older students and teachers. Let's try to make this space interactive. You can come to learn about books , but you can also share books that have been meaningful to you. We welcome comments - click on comment at the bottom of a post and add. Consider being a regular contributor to share the books you just can't do without in your classroom.
How I Learned to Love the Graphic Novel - an article in the Canadian Children's Book News - Winter 2007
Toward a Definition of 21st-Century Literacies (Adopted by the NCTE Executive Committee, February 15, 2008) Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy.