10 Innovative Ideas for Class Blogs →
I truthfully expected this article to be a boring rehash of ideas I’ve read so many times before, but I was completely surprised. These are genuinely great ideas. Here are two of my favorites:
2. CodingMany classrooms start out with great education technology intentions when they decide to launch a blog but never really push it to its full potential. Take the opportunity to teach students how to embed video into posts and manually enter code to create effects like bold font and hyperlinks. (Check out the two free lessons available to download from My Kid Can Code!)
3. Serialise
A great trick for getting readers to keep coming back for more as well as engaging your students with an on-going project. Get students to create a long story, using their creative writing to keep it going for as long as possible, and upload a new section to the blog every few days, making sure to leave each week on an exciting cliff-hanger…
