Using Blogs within the classroom is a great way to eliminate the boundaries of your classroom walls. Students and classes can connect with others around the world to provide global insight, as well as to provide an authentic audience that is outside of the classroom. While classroom blogging has many benefits, Waters suggests in her blog that students must learn how to be successful, safe bloggers. As teachers, we must hold students accountable for their blogging, just as we would in any other piece of writing, but also for creating a positive digital footprint. After researching and reviewing multiple Blog Rubrics, I have decided that when evaluating student blogs, I would like to narrow it down to three criteria: content/personal connection, respectfulness, and sentence/mechanical structure. I added “personal connection” to the content portion of the rubric because blogs often relate content to their lives. As teachers, we typically do not read a blog about Google Classroom for a summary. Instead, we are reading the blog about Google Classroom for ideas on how to implement it into our lives. Similarly, students should be using the same technique in their blogs- do not regurgitate information, connect it to our lives. This “personal connection” component was inspired by a rubric created by Brenda Dyck. Another inspiration for my blog evaluation criteria is from Scholastic News Online’s Blog Rubric, who inspired me to use “respectfulness.” This is not a criteria that I found often while researching student blog rubrics, but feel as though it is a very important skill to develop within our students as they are communicating more and more often with others outside our classroom. Blogging in the classroom is great way to achieve a variety of objectives: providing an authentic audience for student work, connecting students to other students, connecting students to experts in various fields, or even a way to creatively express their writing. Students, however, must be taught how to achieve these objectives, just like they must be taught our academic objectives. We must go slowly, model, and provide timely feedback. The rubric posted below will help to evaluate in order to provide clear, valuable feedback. Waters, S. (2013, February 11). Getting more out of student blogs [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://suewaters.com/2013/02/11/getting-more-out-of-student-blogging/ Rubric created by Brenda Dyck Scholastic News Online’s Blog Rubric Thanks to Pixabay for the image used in this post!
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