You’ve started your blog(s) with students, and they are writing, when is their work “ready” to publish and share with the world? If you haven’t thought about it yet, you should. Watch as we discuss how to figure out your philosophy about publishing student work, and how to make sure that you are having students show their best work, while still supporting learning.

Points covered included:

• Considerations, including potential “critics” who may read the blog;
• Building comfort and fluency in students;
• Avoiding embarrassing students;
• Revising and editing comments after they are published;
• Identify draft vs. final versions of work.

Sue Wyatt (taz teacher) and Jan Smith shared their experiences with student blogs which were very illuminating!

You can see the archive of the Elluminate session here

Links

• My week ver. 17 | Reflections on Teaching
• The Quality of Language
• La qualité de la langue
• Sue Wyatt’s blog
• Jan Smith’s blog
• The Edublogger Student competition
  

Other

A note about the writing on this blog…

This blog includes writing from elementary students, and shows work at all stages from first to final drafts
Work with this logo:

has been edited once.

Work with this logo:

is in a final form.

We do this to show the whole writing process, and hope you enjoy seeing how we learn.

the image link is here:
Edited: http://oakridgefourthgrade.edublogs.org/files/2009/05/cooltext421028791.png
Final: http://oakridgefourthgrade.edublogs.org/files/2009/05/cooltext421029122.png

I did both on cooltext: http://cooltext.com/Buttons