Warning: This blog is a brief summary of Christopher Craft’s presentation on Tuesday, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. This is a selection of points that appealed to me. I don’t claim it to be complete. I hope that its accurate. It’s all paraphrased.
Summary:
WordPress can be used for individual blogging accounts. To provide blogging for all students and teachers in your school, consider hosting WordPress Multiuser and providing blogs for the students and teachers in your school.
DrupalEd can be used for aggregating multiple blogs to one feed. Explore it for use if you will be using blogs with classes of students.
There are a number of points that you need to consider if you plan to support blogging in your classroom. Here are some of them:
– will you moderate posts?
– will students be able to comment on others’ posts?
– how will you regulate blog posts? (using AUP?, district/state rules or laws?)
– get the superintendent/principal to subscribe
– go in with your eyes open, i.e. know the issues around blogging, student online presence and safe web use
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