Ten Reasons to Use KidBlogFor Your Reading Class

Reading Blog 1-Common Core Aligned- Career and College Readiness 2-Student Engagement 3- Accountability 4- Tracking of student growth 5- Interactive learning 6- PARCC preparation ( typing practice and creating on-

line) 7- Extended Classroom time 8- Conferencing tool 9- Classroom transparency 10-Danielson technology credit

Assignments

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Examples of Student Work

http://kidblog.org/MrsRiggiosReadingClass2014-15/c4b2d8c7-2002-4045-8acb-377316552605/cinderella-7/

Examples of Student Work http://kidblog.org/MrsRiggiosReadingCla

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Examples of Great Comments http://kidblog.org/MrsRiggiosReadingCla

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Examples of Comments http://kidblog.org/MrsRiggiosReadingCla

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Getting Started Go to http://kidblog.org/home/ Click on Create Fill in

Name ( your name) Password Email Class Name Verification Code

Getting Started

Click on Create a Class You should see “Setting up Your Class” Click on Users Click on Add New Users Add students names and passwords,

one at a time, then click on Add New User

After all of your students have been entered, go to Settings

Getting Started Settings-

Keep all default settings except Time zone- change to New York Under General Settings, go to Comments

Tab Take off the Comment Approval check Save Changes

Making Your First Post Go to New Post Add the title of your assignment Type in your assignment details in the

text box Click on Publish

Instructions for Students Give students web address

http://kidblog.org/home/ Click Log in drop down button Enter teacher’s email to find class Look for class name and click link Once on the site, click Log In Instruct the students to read assignment Then click on New Post to answer Students type blog and then publish

Commenting Instructions After reading blog, scroll down to the :

“Leave a Comment” tab and begin typing your comment in the text box

After comment is completed, click on “Submit Comment”